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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sam Jones in Madrid

Spain publishes list of art seized during civil war and Franco dictatorship

Stone statues piled up against a window in a depository
Stone statues collected and deposited in the Basilica of San Francisco el Grande in Madrid in September 1937. Photograph: IPCE Photo Library

Spain’s culture ministry has published a list of more than 5,000 items plundered by the Franco regime – including paintings, sculptures, jewellery, furniture and religious ornaments – to help people reclaim their family property almost a century after it was taken for safekeeping following the outbreak of the civil war.

The inventory, which is part of the government’s efforts to bring “justice, reparation and dignity” to the victims of the conflict and the subsequent dictatorship, was posted online on Wednesday.

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