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