He represented a previous tradition of reactionary Catholic nationalism, his worldview forged by Spain’s humiliating loss of ...

Spain's brutal fascist dictator Francisco Franco was buried inside a massive basilica shortly after he died in 1975, but the presence of his tomb at the heart of this massive monument outside Madrid ...

The Spanish government has made it clear that a community of Benedictine monks is no longer welcome at the “Valley of the Fallen,” a Spanish Civil War memorial site not far from Madrid. The government ...

The release of exiled former Spanish King Juan Carlos's memoirs has sparked renewed debate in Spain over his legacy and ties ...

Spain’s Civil War heroes are getting one last salute. Through their grandkids. In a move that feels human and symbolic, the ...

In a savage and brutal extension of the Spanish Civil War, Franco’s Blue Division clashed ferociously with the Red Army ...

In this Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018 photo, a victim's skull is examined during the classification process by anthropologists following the exhumation of a mass grave found in 2018 at the cemetery of ...

Franco supporters march against his exhumation on 44th anniversary of his death, in Madrid MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish court stripped General Francisco Franco's heirs of the late dictator's summer ...

The Spanish Civil War was one of the most controversial conflicts of the last century. Foreshadowing the wider conflict of 1939-45, the devastation of Spain by the forces of fascism, communism and ...

The Spanish government has taken the remains of the country's former fascist dictator, Francisco Franco, out of a basilica near Madrid. He has been reburied in a churchyard next to his wife. The ...