In a historic step towards reconciliation, Spain’s culture ministry has begun returning artworks and artefacts seized during ...

It was also partly built by political prisoners, whom Franco's regime subjected to forced labour. The site is a shrine for Spain's far right who pay homage to the dictator there. It is often where ...

Spain’s Culture Ministry is returning some 5,000 works of art and artifacts seized under former dictator Francisco Franco's ...

Franco ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975 ... It was partly built by political prisoners, whom Franco's regime subjected to forced labour. The site has been a focal point for Franco ...

During the Civil War and later, as the ruler of Spain, Franco was single-minded in his drive to decimate the Spanish left. Under his regime, if a leftist woman had a baby while imprisoned ...

His final words, communicated to Spaniards on state television later that morning by prime minister Carlos Arian Navarro, seem incongruous for a dictator responsible for at least 100,000 deaths.

Franco’s greatest contribution to contemporary ... diplomacy as a key component of its nationalist agenda, the regime marketed Spain’s abstract artists as members of an international avant ...

but the crimes have been shielded under an amnesty law passed two years after Franco's death, protecting former members of the regime. The United Nations, which sent a working group to Spain to ...

We’re in Priaranza del Bierzo, a small village in north-eastern Spain ... years after Franco's death, historians still can't rely on any register or precise data about the regime's victims.