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 Spain will give the descendants of International Brigade fighters who fought fascism during the Civil War an expressway to Spanish citizenship and dual nationality, with people from the UK, the US and many other countries eligible. https://www.thelocal.es/20221201/descendants-of-international-brigades-can-get-fast-track-spanish-nationality Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:28:50 +0100 descendants-of-international-brigades-can-get-fast-track-spanish-nationality The remains of a Francoist general who is believed to have ordered the shooting of Spain's most famous poet were relocated on Thursday from a Seville church following a new law which bans the glorification of key figures of Spain's dictatorship. https://www.thelocal.es/20221103/spain-relocates-remains-of-franco-ally-behind-death-of-thousands Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:04:23 +0100 spain-relocates-remains-of-franco-ally-behind-death-of-thousands Spain is planning to relocate the remains of Antonio Primo de Rivera and Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, two far-right figures linked to the Spanish civil war who are buried in grandiose sites. https://www.thelocal.es/20221007/spain-to-relocate-remains-of-francos-fascist-allies-to-more-low-key-graves Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:03:17 +0200 spain-to-relocate-remains-of-francos-fascist-allies-to-more-low-key-graves Almost five decades after the death of Francisco Franco, Spanish lawmakers passed a flagship law Wednesday seeking to honour the victims of the 1936-1939 civil war and the ensuing dictatorship. https://www.thelocal.es/20221006/spains-lawmakers-pass-bill-honouring-franco-era-victims Thu, 06 Oct 2022 11:24:54 +0200 spains-lawmakers-pass-bill-honouring-franco-era-victims Like many Spanish villages, Belchite was devastated by Spain's 1936-39 Civil War. But it is the only one which looks largely as it did at the end of the conflict, with piles of rubble strewn about, the clock tower barely standing and mass graves. https://www.thelocal.es/20220718/belchite-the-open-wound-of-spains-civil-war Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:55:59 +0200 belchite-the-open-wound-of-spains-civil-war Spain’s government finalised a bill on Tuesday aimed at boosting the search for the remains of people killed during Francisco Franco’s dictatorship and the country’s civil war. https://www.thelocal.es/20210721/new-law-aims-to-boost-hunt-for-spains-mass-graves-of-franco-era Wed, 21 Jul 2021 10:55:40 +0200 new-law-aims-to-boost-hunt-for-spains-mass-graves-of-franco-era During the past week, it was widely reported in both the British and Spanish press that the descendants of volunteers who fought in the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War would be offered citizenship. https://www.thelocal.es/20200924/confusion-and-disappointment-greet-spains-plans-for-citizenship-for-international-brigades Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:16:31 +0200 confusion-and-disappointment-greet-spains-plans-for-citizenship-for-international-brigades Historian David Mathieson revisits the site of one of the Civil War's bloodiest battles. https://www.thelocal.es/20200212/remembering-the-battle-of-jarama-and-the-role-of-the-international-brigades-in-the-spanish-civil-war Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:23:17 +0100 remembering-the-battle-of-jarama-and-the-role-of-the-international-brigades-in-the-spanish-civil-war Hell’s bitter winds have suddenly reversed and the darkest visions of the Spanish Civil War have drifted back onto the streets of Madrid. https://www.thelocal.es/20190131/in-pics-spanish-civil-war-scenes-then-and-now Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:25:15 +0100 in-pics-spanish-civil-war-scenes-then-and-now The spectre of the Civil War continues to haunt Spain in many different ways. It manifests itself overtly in conflicts over Catalan independence but also more subtly through art, literature and film. https://www.thelocal.es/20180903/why-the-spanish-civil-war-continues-to-haunt-gothic-literature Mon, 03 Sep 2018 12:18:01 +0200 why-the-spanish-civil-war-continues-to-haunt-gothic-literature David Simon, the creator of acclaimed television show "The Wire," has teamed up with Spain's Mediapro to make a series on the Spanish civil war, the media group said Monday. https://www.thelocal.es/20180410/the-wire-creator-plans-new-series-on-spain-civil-war Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:45:56 +0200 the-wire-creator-plans-new-series-on-spain-civil-war It was the first time nurse Aileen Moore had flown.But at noon on May 11, 1937, she took off in a tiny 25kg monoplane from a daisy-speckled airfield under the Pyrenees, near Biarritz, writes Sarah Lonsdale. https://www.thelocal.es/20170601/the-blockade-running-british-women-at-the-forefront-of-basque-evacuations Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:40:04 +0200 the-blockade-running-british-women-at-the-forefront-of-basque-evacuations The morning of April 26, 1937 dawned like any other in Guernica, northern Spain. It was market day, and as the sun rose, 10,000 locals, refugees and peasants came to gather in the traditional Basque town’s centre. https://www.thelocal.es/20170426/80-years-on-from-the-guernica-bombing-and-spain-is-still-struggling-to-honour-historical-memory Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:41:28 +0200 80-years-on-from-the-guernica-bombing-and-spain-is-still-struggling-to-honour-historical-memory Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to exhume the remains of late dictator Francisco Franco from a mausoleum near Madrid and rebury them elsewhere. https://www.thelocal.es/20170301/spanish-court-rejects-bid-to-move-francos-remains Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:24:47 +0100 spanish-court-rejects-bid-to-move-francos-remains Madrid's Reina Sofia museum said on Tuesday it would stage a major Pablo Picasso exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of his famed "Guernica" painting, a universal symbol of the cruelty of war. https://www.thelocal.es/20170104/madrid-to-hold-major-picasso-exhibit-for-guernica-anniversary Wed, 04 Jan 2017 11:26:14 +0100 madrid-to-hold-major-picasso-exhibit-for-guernica-anniversary Sunday marked the 41st anniversary of the death of General Francisco Franco and far right supporters nostalgic for the dictatorship took to the streets. https://www.thelocal.es/20161121/fascists-salute-franco-on-41st-anniversary-of-his-death Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:23:59 +0100 fascists-salute-franco-on-41st-anniversary-of-his-death The remains of two generals who played key roles in the July 1936 coup led by Francisco Franco that sparked the Spanish Civil War will be removed from Pamplona’s Monument to the Fallen. https://www.thelocal.es/20160902/spain-is-digging-up-the-remains-of-francos-generals Fri, 02 Sep 2016 13:40:00 +0200 spain-is-digging-up-the-remains-of-francos-generals In Spain as in Syria, people fight in foreign wars for many reasons, or sometimes none at all. Historian Michael Lambert explores. https://www.thelocal.es/20160804/in-spain-as-in-syria-what-history-tells-us-about-reasons-to-go-to-war Thu, 04 Aug 2016 17:40:49 +0200 in-spain-as-in-syria-what-history-tells-us-about-reasons-to-go-to-war Eighty years since the beginning of the conflict, James D. Fernandez of New York University explains the convoluted legacy of the Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War. https://www.thelocal.es/20160721/spains-civil-war-and-the-americans-who-fought-in-it Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:40:21 +0200 spains-civil-war-and-the-americans-who-fought-in-it Teenager Angel Bertran had just gone out to work in fields of hazelnut trees when Spain's civil war burst into his small town with the arrival of Nazi bomber planes. https://www.thelocal.es/20160718/spanish-civil-war-a-testing-ground-for-ww2 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:59:34 +0200 spanish-civil-war-a-testing-ground-for-ww2