https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed As July 17th marks the 85th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, The Local takes a look at the best books on the conflict. https://www.thelocal.es/20180718/spanish-civil-war-books-must-read-best Wed, 18 Jul 2018 13:35:56 +0200 spanish-civil-war-books-must-read-best The Spanish government on Tuesday approved a special fund to exhume graves at the Valley of the Fallen, where thousands of victims of the Spanish Civil War and dictator Francisco Franco are buried. https://www.thelocal.es/20210331/spain-to-exhume-bodies-of-civil-war-victims-at-valley-of-the-fallen Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:30:13 +0200 spain-to-exhume-bodies-of-civil-war-victims-at-valley-of-the-fallen Spain's leftist government approved a draft bill Tuesday which will finance the exhumation of victims of the country's 1936-39 civil war and the Franco dictatorship from hundreds of mass graves. https://www.thelocal.es/20200915/spain-wants-to-ramp-up-search-for-franco-victims-in-mass-graves Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:09:07 +0200 spain-wants-to-ramp-up-search-for-franco-victims-in-mass-graves The United Nations has apologized to Spain for having mistakenly attributed the devastating 1937 bombing of the town of Guernica to Spanish Republican forces, a spokesman said Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190917/un-apologizes-for-attributing-guernica-bombing-to-spanish-republicans Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:17:19 +0200 un-apologizes-for-attributing-guernica-bombing-to-spanish-republicans Police explosives experts have destroyed a Spanish Civil War-era bomb found at the building site of a historical theme park in central Spain, emergency services said Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190905/civil-war-bomb-detonated-at-spains-newest-theme-park Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:56:06 +0200 civil-war-bomb-detonated-at-spains-newest-theme-park Spanish police have released a video showing an explosive device found underwater which forced the evacuation of a beach in Barcelona on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.es/20190826/barcelonetta-beach-evacuated-after-discovery-of-unexploded-civil-war-bomb Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:45:27 +0200 barcelonetta-beach-evacuated-after-discovery-of-unexploded-civil-war-bomb Eighty years ago, on April 1st 1939, the civil war came to an end in Spain, a painful, bloody wound that has yet to heal. https://www.thelocal.es/20190401/on-this-day-80-years-ago-spanish-civil-war-declared-over Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:28:17 +0200 on-this-day-80-years-ago-spanish-civil-war-declared-over Two historians have researched archives, old photos and oral accounts to piece together the forgotten stories of Madrid during the Civil War. Leah Pattem found out more. https://www.thelocal.es/20190326/ghosts-of-war-map-of-bombed-madrid-reveals-a-city-secretly-scarred Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:00:30 +0100 ghosts-of-war-map-of-bombed-madrid-reveals-a-city-secretly-scarred In a new radio documentary for BBC Radio 4, Madrid-based reporter Lucas Laursen meets families still struggling to find the remains of relatives killed by Franco's forces, and to say goodbye on their own terms. https://www.thelocal.es/20190318/some-of-spains-civil-war-survivors-are-still-waiting-to-recover-lost-relatives Mon, 18 Mar 2019 17:20:18 +0100 some-of-spains-civil-war-survivors-are-still-waiting-to-recover-lost-relatives Spain will finally exhume the remains of late dictator Francisco Franco from his current resting place at a vast mausoleum built using forced labour and moved to a cemetery alongside his wife. https://www.thelocal.es/20190315/franco-to-be-exhumed-on-june-15th-despite-family-opposition Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:53:41 +0100 franco-to-be-exhumed-on-june-15th-despite-family-opposition Spain's Pedro Sanchez on Sunday urged Europeans to resist the "winds of xenophobia" threatening the continent, as he marked 80 years since the flight of 475,000 Spaniards to France after Francisco Franco seized power after a brutal civil war. https://www.thelocal.es/20190225/spanish-pm-urges-resistance-to-winds-of-xenophobia-facing-europe Mon, 25 Feb 2019 10:15:29 +0100 spanish-pm-urges-resistance-to-winds-of-xenophobia-facing-europe Spain's prime minister is to travel to France this weekend to pay tribute to the 450,000 Spaniards who sought refuge there at the end of the 1936-39 civil war and the Franco dictatorship that followed. https://www.thelocal.es/20190220/spanish-pm-to-visit-france-to-pay-tribute-to-civil-war-exiles Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:32:01 +0100 spanish-pm-to-visit-france-to-pay-tribute-to-civil-war-exiles Spain's justice ministry has ordered more than 600 municipalities across the country to remove symbols honouring the dictatorship of dictator Francisco Franco which are still on display in public spaces. https://www.thelocal.es/20190206/spain-orders-hundreds-of-municipalities-to-remove-franco-symbols Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:16:33 +0100 spain-orders-hundreds-of-municipalities-to-remove-franco-symbols A decree authorising the exhumation of late dictator Francisco Franco from his tomb in the Valley of the Fallen monument near Madrid was approved in Spain´s congress on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.es/20180913/spanish-parliament-approves-exhumation-of-general-franco Thu, 13 Sep 2018 19:16:52 +0200 spanish-parliament-approves-exhumation-of-general-franco "Since they are going to remove Franco, I wanted to see it. It's morbid curiosity," says Antonio Nevado, one of thousands of Spaniards who have rushed to visit the late dictator's tomb before his remains are moved. https://www.thelocal.es/20180819/rush-to-visit-francos-tomb-before-his-remains-are-moved Sun, 19 Aug 2018 11:33:57 +0200 rush-to-visit-francos-tomb-before-his-remains-are-moved Spain has announced it wants to establish a truth commission on wrongdoings during the civil war and dictatorship, in what would be a major step in a country that has largely brushed aside the dark period. https://www.thelocal.es/20180712/spain-plans-truth-commission-on-civil-war-and-francos-dictatorship Thu, 12 Jul 2018 10:46:36 +0200 spain-plans-truth-commission-on-civil-war-and-francos-dictatorship Experts on Monday began inspections of a vast mausoleum where dictator Francisco Franco is buried along with thousands of victims of Spain's civil war, in preparation for the first exhumations of some of the bodies https://www.thelocal.es/20180424/spain-starts-work-to-exhume-bodies-from-franco-era-monument Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:53:39 +0200 spain-starts-work-to-exhume-bodies-from-franco-era-monument On Tuesday Spain’s congress is debating whether to exhume the remains of General Franco from the giant mausoleum crowned with a 150 meter high granite cross on a hillside outside Madrid. https://www.thelocal.es/20170509/is-spain-about-to-dig-up-dictator-francisco-franco Tue, 09 May 2017 14:52:30 +0200 is-spain-about-to-dig-up-dictator-francisco-franco Some 200 people gathered at a cemetery in the northern Spanish town of Guernica Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of its bombing by Nazi warplanes during the Spanish civil war. https://www.thelocal.es/20170427/basque-town-of-guernica-marks-80th-anniversary-of-bombings Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:56:46 +0200 basque-town-of-guernica-marks-80th-anniversary-of-bombings Amnesty International on Wednesday accused the Spanish authorities of systematically obstructing probes into crimes committed during the 1936-9 civil war and Francisco Franco's subsequent dictatorship. https://www.thelocal.es/20161124/spain-slammed-for-obstructing-civil-war-dictatorship-probe Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:25:40 +0100 spain-slammed-for-obstructing-civil-war-dictatorship-probe