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New Madrid museum set to unveil five centuries of Spain's royal collections

Spain is set to unveil what is touted as one of Europe’s cultural highlights of the year with the opening in Madrid of The Royal Collections Gallery next month

The Independent UK

Anti-Muslim Twitter feed in Spain: 'A recipe for disaster'

A far-right movement in Spain that is opposed to Muslims and immigrants has found a home on Twitter

The Independent UK

Spain's Juan Carlos I offers cautionary tale for Charles III

A playboy past that was once brushed under the carpet, a popular son whose telegenic family threatens to eclipse his own star, and endless leaks about his private life: Spain’s Juan Carlos I can empathize with the lot of Britain’s Charles III

The Independent UK

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Spain exhumes fascist party founder from mausoleum

The body of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of Spain’s fascist Falange movement, will be exhumed from a Madrid mausoleum and transferred to a city cemetery

The Independent UK

Spain exhumes remains of fascist leader Primo de Rivera

The Falange party founder became one of the pillars of Francisco Franco’s brutal regime.

Al Jazeera

Three arrested as Spain exhumes fascist movement's founder

Three people were arrested on Monday after police clashed with sympathisers of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of Spain's fascist Falange movement that supported the Francoist regime, whose body was exhumed from a mausoleum near Madrid.

Reuters

Beyond El Clasico: How Real Madrid and Barcelona’s rivalry has turned uglier than ever

The days of a healthy rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid are over.

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Rivalry between Barcelona and Madrid Takes Turn for Worse

The days of a healthy rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid are over. What used to be a cordial relationship between the Spanish powerhouses has turned ugly following the latest scandal involving Barcelona over payments to a former refereeing official. Neither club is holding back, and there is no hiding…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Franco’s legacy still haunts Spain as the nation heads to the ballot box this year

IT'S a major year in Spain.

The National (Scotland)

This mural honors 5,000 women who protested fascism in 1937

TAMPA, Fla. — Sarah McNamara was a teenager when she first learned of her great-great grandmother and great aunt’s local activism in the 1930s.

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Carlos Saura obituary

One of Spain’s most celebrated directors best known for his 1990 film ¡Ay Carmela!

The Guardian - UK

Paco Rabanne: Designer who embodied the spirit of the Sixties

A fashion innovator and provocateur who defined space-age glamour with his design for Barbarella’s catsuit

The Independent UK

Carlos Saura, who led Spanish art cinema's revival, dead at 91

Filmmaker Carlos Saura, who led the awakening of Spain's art cinema after decades of fascist dictatorship under Francisco Franco and captivated international audiences with passionate flamenco choreography dramas, died on Friday. He was 91.

Reuters

Spain's new memory law dredges up a painful chapter of Spain's often forgotten ties to Nazis

Walking down a tree-lined street in the Poble Sec neighborhood of Barcelona, one might easily miss a small bronze square set into the sidewalk. Stamped into the metal in the regional language of Catalan are the words: “Here lived Francesc Boix Campo, born 1920, exiled 1939, deported 1941, Mauthausen, liberated.”

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New Spanish law on locating Franco-era victims divides opinion

Almost five decades after the death of Spain's right-wing dictator Francisco Franco, the country is making a fresh attempt to offer justice to his victims. A new Democratic Memory law, which came into force in October, makes the state responsible for the search for tens of thousands of those forcibly…

Reason

Data on Mass Murder by Government in the 20th Century

Communists killed the most, followed by fascists.

Reuters

Spain exhumes body of general linked to Garcia Lorca's execution

Spain exhumed on Thursday the body of a Francoist general who is believed to have ordered the execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca in 1936 at the start of the Spanish civil war.

Inverse

You need to watch the smartest spy thriller of the decade on HBO Max ASAP

'¡García!' is an amalgam of pop culture's best super-spies and soldiers, including Captain America, James Bond, Indiana Jones, and yes, even Austin Powers. But it's also so much more.

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The Guardian - UK

HBO Max series ¡García! brings fictional Francoist spy to small screen

Show portrays adventures of agent who wakes from cryogenic sleep to find himself in modern Spain

Reuters

Spain scraps 33 titles handed out by dictator Franco to family and aides

Spain abolished 33 aristocratic titles handed out by dictator Francisco Franco and his successor to loyal lieutenants and family on Friday as a new "Democratic Memory" law took effect.

The Independent UK

Florida Republican defends tweeting quote from Spanish dictator Francisco Franco

State lawmaker spoke at a nationals conference earlier this year

Reuters

Families of victims of Franco regime welcome new Spanish law

Flor Baena has spent decades trying to clear the name of her brother Jose Humberto, who was one of the last five people executed under General Francisco Franco's fascist regime just two months before the dictator's death in 1975.

Reuters

Heirs of Spain's fascist party founder ask for his remains to be exhumed

The family of the Spanish fascist Falange party's founder, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, have asked to exhume his remains, buried in the monument known as The Valley of the Fallen, where those of dictator Francisco Franco remained until October 2019, Spanish newspaper ABC said on Monday.

Reuters

Spain rights group seeks probe of civil war lyrics at far-right rally

A group representing victims of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's regime has asked prosecutors to investigate a song performed at a rally by the far-right Vox party for allegedly calling for a return to civil war.

The Guardian - UK

Anarchist, publisher, would-be assassin: exhibition documents life of Stuart Christie

Tribute to the revolutionary thinking of the Glaswegian writer jailed in Spain when a teenager for plotting to blow up Franco

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