‘Some students don’t even know who Franco was’ says 97-year-old Civil War veteran
Miquel Morera is one of the last remaining witnesses of a brutal conflict that left half a million dead and forced nearly as many to flee the country
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Great expectation over exhumation of Salvador Dalí’s remains
Court admits Salvador Dali Foundation request for DNA samples of the artist’s remains to be taken in the evening after the museum closes its doors
Barcelona pays tribute to its Olympics that never took place
Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 made it impossible for 5,000 athletes to take part in People’s Games planned for the city
Paterna exhumation removes victims from Francoist ‘map of horror’
Largest excavation of mass grave in Valencia uncovers 49 executed bodies while Catalan CUP party calls for historical memory law to replace ‘cowardly’ state legislation
Students from Barcelona engineering school design interior of device for ‘low cost’ space travel
Four person Bloon capsule rises to stratosphere on 120-meter helium balloon created by Catalan company Zero 2 Infinity
Catalonia wants to streamline public timetable
An initiative aims to achieve more reasonable working hours and better balance between work and family
Guardia Civil takes details of passengers opposed to ‘inhumane’ repatriation
Spanish police accused of acting disproportionately after emptying plane and picking out ‘culprits’ at random
NGOs account for 40% of Mediterranean rescues
International Migration Organization head demands EU authorities make rescue work ‘easier’ for organizations such as Catalan ProActiva Open Arms
‘Fumanya Dinosaur Project’: a world-class paleontological site in the Catalan Pyrenees
The museum is to open its doors on Saturday
Migrants in Barcelona detention center start hunger strike
Group of 60 recent arrivals begin protest over living conditions in state-run facility with demand to be freed says Let’s Close the CIE NGO
Over 150 world universities offer Catalan studies courses
Autonomous University of Madrid joins Catalan Studies Network that includes institutions on four continents providing classes to 6,200 students
Catalan police to be part of Spanish antiterrorist body
Barcelona and Madrid governments hold security coordination meeting for first time in eight years amid mounting tension over referendum
‘It’s my right to know who I am’ says alleged daughter of painter Salvador Dalí
Pilar Abel insists she is not looking for money but vows to fight to learn the truth
Catalan oral history archive to be biggest in Europe
The audiovisual databank will include more than 300,000 hours of interviews with witnesses of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship
Home Affairs signs off on recruitment of 500 new Mossos d'Esquadra
Executive sidesteps tax office injunction to approve new police intake in move towards objective of 1,500 extra officers
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