The dictatorship was crucial in the expansion of the religious organization. Its founder, Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, who was canonized as a saint in 2002, said in 1939: ‘I believe that we will have to bless the war’
Hundreds of ex-combatants from the losing side of the Civil War fought against the Nazis while enlisted in the British army. A new book reconstructs their story
The two subcultures are suffering from a lack of generational change. A new exhibition recounts their history and idiosyncrasies from the “Battle of Brighton” in 1964, which was featured in the film ‘Quadrophenia,’ to the present day
In several recent essays historians discuss the founding milestones of Spanish nationalism, the traditional banner of conservative politicians, around the struggle for Al-Andalus
Presented as an illustrated dictionary, a new book delves into the bizarre as the essence of Spanish national identity, in contrast to the epic narratives of patriotism adopted by the far right
The digital project, the only center dedicated exclusively to the 1936-1939 conflict, has inaugurated new sections and encourages the public to share objects and personal experiences
Russia’s minister of culture has announced plans to bring back this contest, which has intermittently brought musicians from the other side of the Iron Curtain (and some from this side) together to compete since the 1960s
Researcher Sheldon Garon highlights the precedent that the Spanish conflict represented in the generalization of a tactic aimed at breaking the morale of the population
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
The Board for the Protection of Women was created during Franciso Franco’s regime, with the objective of ‘redeeming immoral women.’ Through podcasts, books and roundtables, abuses and violations of human rights that took place within this repressive system are finally being documented
The Irish actor, who plays Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett in ‘Dance First,’ discusses the perils of fame
The streets of cities around the world have been packed with people calling for a ceasefire in Gaza because a consciousness has emerged from the horrors of the 20th century that makes us heirs of human rights
Police databases have no record of José Ignacio Fernández Guaza, who claims that he was part of a ‘commando’ unit of 15 civilians that executed terrorists in the south of France in the mid-1970s
EL PAÍS tracks down the perpetrator of a fatal attack during a demonstration for amnesty for political prisoners that marked the Spanish Transition in 1977
The director of the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences denies the existence of an abduction ring involving 300,000 newborns in Spain after investigating hundreds of cases
The Miguel de Unamuno high school, next to the old Yeserías prison, was turned into a concentration camp for Republican prisoners after the conflict. To date, no excavations have been permitted
The bomb shelter – built in Spain under Franco to repel an Allied attack that never occurred – was converted into an improvised scientific lab, to track the movements and lives of birds
‘Foremost by Night,’ Víctor Iriarte’s first feature film, wins critics over with the brave tale of two women and a child without a past. The short film ‘Aitana’, a restored version of Saura’s ‘The Hunt’ and a documentary on ‘Guernica’ round out the festival’s Spanish film offerings
Víctor Manuel de Saboya — son of the last king of Italy and childhood friend of Juan Carlos I, the emeritus King of Spain — reveals how he witnessed the accidental homicide of the young duke. ‘He didn’t shoot him directly, but through the closet. I was there. It was 100% an accident,’ the Italian prince says, in a new Netflix docuseries
Fausto Canales was only 24 months old when the Falangists killed his father at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Now, at age 90, he can finally give him a dignified burial
The identity of the young militiawoman on a barricade in Barcelona had been a mystery until an exhibition in Montpellier of long-lost works by its author, Antoni Campañà
The dictator’s nephew, who claims to have met Osama bin Laden in the mountains between Afghanistan and Pakistan, is giving away the specimens he accumulated over decades
Some 200 photographs depicting Nationalist officers with members of the German Luftwaffe, who were responsible for the bombing of Guernica, have been donated to the Spanish state
Republican Soviet fighters shot down a Condor Legion Junkers during the Battle of Brunete but the location of the wreckage remained a mystery for 85 years
Smuggling between Portugal and Spain was rampant under dictator Francisco Franco