Valley of the Fallen: “A symbol of the Franco dictatorship or a religious site?”
With the Spanish government now pondering what to do with the Valley of the Fallen, freelance journalist and Iberosphere contributor Nick Lyne visits the site of General Franco's tomb outside Madrid...
View ArticleMission: Impossible, the Valley of the Fallen
A religious shrine or a monument to hate? The Valley of the Fallen, which houses General Franco's tomb, has loomed over the landscape outside Madrid and Spain's collective memory for decades. Now, 36...
View ArticleSpain turns right, but where’s the far right?
On November 20, 1975, Spain's fascist dictator General Francisco Franco was pronounced dead. On that same day 36 years later, Spaniards went to the polls for a general election in which, unlike...
View ArticleSpain wrestles with Franco’s resting place
A group of experts has recommended that Franco be exhumed and El Valle de los Caídos, the notorious monument to him, be transformed into a place of reconciliation. It’s extremely unlikely to happen,...
View ArticleFranco in a fridge: he pulls in the punters, but is he art?
Spain’s former dictator is still news, as a generation of artists have made clear lately. But it’s a shame their work isn’t more interesting or relevant.
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