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Spain exhumes bodies from Valley of the Fallen civil war monument
Work has begun on exhuming the bodies of four men killed in the Spanish Civil War from the controversial Valley of the Fallen monument near Madrid. Tens of thousands of unidentified civil war ...
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Valley of the Fallen: General Franco’s final resting place
30 miles from Madrid. The imposing basilica at Valle de los Caidos’ (Valley of the Fallen) marks the final resting place of General Francisco Franco and Falangist Party founder Jose Antonio ...
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Francisco Franco's remains to be removed from the “Valley of the Fallen”
Critics call the “Valley of the Fallen” site, marked by a 152 meter-high cross on a mountainside near Madrid, the only remaining monument to a fascist leader in Europe. The decree reduces the ...
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DIVIDED: Experts and locals on digging up dictator Franco from the Valley of the Fallen in special Olive Press report from Madrid
The Valle de los Caidos, 50km from Madrid, is Franco’s OTT tribute ... the desecration of a tomb”, he tells me. WRONG?: Valley of the Fallen where Franco’s body remains “It is an attack ...
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Spain paves way to remove Franco remains from mausoleum
Spain's socialist government has passed a decree to exhume the remains of the late fascist dictator Francisco Franco from a huge mausoleum near Madrid. The Valley of the Fallen, 50km (30 miles ...