Francisco Franco

On July 25, the fall of Mussolini’s regime is commemorated with ‘pastasciutta antifascista,’ a dish that was considered an enemy by the dictatorship

The historian Nora Berend rememorates the construction of the myth of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar from the Middle Ages to the present

A Bolivian diplomat who translated ‘Mein Kampf’ brought up the Spanish dictator’s origins with the Third Reich. ‘Further inquiries will be made in this direction,’ says a document found by historian Marc Navarro

The movement to which the Nobel laureate belonged promoted the hyperbolic freedom of a fiction that was unlimited and furiously aware of its own ability to change the world with words and with the courage of inventiveness

The mythical documentary by the British band, which is being re-released, arrived in art-house cinemas as a psychedelic experience when the end of the dictatorship was already in sight

The professor of contemporary history has published a new biography of the dictator, a solid portrait that covers everything from his time in Africa and Hitler’s help at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the essential role of the Church in the regime

Historians warn of the complexity of competing against social networks and the popularity of far-right YouTubers

A foundation is digitizing the nearly 300 films that the Hearst Corporation recorded during the conflict and were shown in American movie theaters

The World Monuments Fund has chosen the Zaragoza town among 25 worldwide locations for which it will raise funds. The 1937 Battle of Belchite was a magnet for journalists such as Ernest Hemingway

German filmmaker Andres Veiel reexamines the figure of the director of ‘Triumph of the Will’ and ‘Olympia’ through her extensive and valuable private archives

Despite the existence of at least six areas affected by nuclear accidents and other industrial activities, the country still does not have an official catalogue that includes locations and clean-up plans

Never before have so many Cubans lived in Spain, which now has 200,000 residents from the Caribbean country, 10% of whom live in the capital

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

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