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Articles tagged with: Franco

19 March 2021 03:27 PM

Map of Barcelona showing bomb shelter sites in black as well as areas affected by air raids shown in red (image from Barcelona city council)

Discover Barcelona's 1,000 bomb shelters in new detailed interactive map

Map pinpoints exact locations of air raid shelters as well as displaying damage caused by Francoist air forces

Society

27 January 2021 07:18 PM

Members of the Catalan Dignity Commission walking along Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona, January 27, 2021 (by Maria Asmarat)

Spain urged to return papers stolen by Franco to Catalonia

Catalan Dignity Commission says 10,000 outstanding Salamanca Papers must be brought back

Society

21 November 2020 11:52 AM

Carles Vallejo, president of the association of former political prisoners of Francoism, looks through old newspaper clippings of stories related to his time in prison (by Cristina Tomàs White)

Tortured under Franco, forgetting is not an option for Carles Vallejo

Former political prisoner reflects on his arrest and exile as well as historical memory

Society In Depth

20 November 2020 07:17 PM

Carles Vallejo, president of the association of former political prisoners of Francoism, November 17, 2020 (by ACN)

PODCAST: Open Wounds – Dealing with the Francoist Past

45 years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco many issues remain unresolved 

Society

15 October 2020 10:20 AM

Lluís Companys (WikiCommons)

80th anniversary of Catalan president’s execution at hands of Francoist regime

Lluís Companys, defender of the Spanish Second Republic, honored with Stolpersteine stone

Society

15 September 2020 05:14 PM

Spanish vice president, Carmen Calvo, September 15, 2020 (by Moncloa/José María Cuadrado)

Spain's cabinet approves 'Historical Memory Law' in first step to annul Franco-era convictions

Pending parliamentary approval, law will ban organizations sympathetic to dictatorship

Society

23 July 2020 02:06 PM

Image of the Sant Pere de Vallhonesta chapel, in Sant Vicenç de Castellet, with Joan Casajoana, who claims ownership, on July 23, 2020 (by Nia Escolà)

Church registered 3,722 estates without title deeds over 70 years, says government

Religious institution was permitted to act as notary thanks to a Franco era law in force until 2015

Society

06 November 2019 04:19 PM

Josep Sabatés looking at a photograph of his father and his siblings, one of the few records he has of his uncle (by Estefania Escolà)

Josep's uncle returns from the war after more than 80 years

In a simple ceremony, Sabatés family receive the remains of a relative killed in the Civil War, thanks to government's genetic identification program

Society

27 October 2019 05:38 PM

A portrait of Tomàs Verdaguer Roqué, a Spanish Civil War soldier whose remains were returned to his family 80 years after his death, in October 2017 (by Xavier Verdaguer)

The two sides of the Civil War legacy

The return of the remains of a Republican soldier found in an unmarked grave provide a stark contrast to the exhumation of dictator Franco

Society

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