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The work 'Triptych of war', by Aurelio Arteta, at an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao in 2013.

Mystery tax defaulter settles millions of euros in debt by handing in 200 Goya artworks

Mikel Ormazabal|San Sebastián|Jun 28, 2024 - 17:18 CEST

The art was worth $4.3 million, but even that was not enough to cover the entire owed amount, said authorities in Spain’s Basque Country. In another plot twist, the paintings and engravings theoretically belonged to a private art foundation

The main Belgian collaborator with the Third Reich, Léon Degrelle, pictured next to his mansion built in the Andalusian village of Constantina.

spain under franco

Spain, a Nazi hideout

Paco Cerdà|Valencia|Apr 01, 2024 - 20:58 CEST

The book ‘Bajo el manto del Caudillo’ depicts Franco’s Spain as the European country where the most high-ranking officials and collaborators of the Third Reich were in hiding

At the San Juan Ante Portam Latinam site, researchers have counted the remains of 338 people, many of whom bear marks of trauma to the skull.

Neolithic

The first great European war took place in the north of the Iberian Peninsula over 5,000 years ago

Miguel Ángel Criado|Nov 05, 2023 - 19:33 CET

A quarter of the hundreds of remains from a mass burial in Álava, Spain, have wounds caused by clubs, arrows or stones

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