The relocation of the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco will turn the mausoleum into a memorial for the victims of the Spanish civil war Spain's government passed a decree on Friday to ...

Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial war to win control of Spain. Driven by a deeply conservative vision, he used torture, murder and incarceration to transform Spanish Society.

Francisco Franco and his claim to be the inspiration for the construction of the future, have recently been in worrying good health. The events held in his memory no longer only gather nostalgic ...

Two specialists on modern Spain and the Spanish Civil War give us a life of Francisco Franco. They do an excellent job of putting Franco into the social and military context of his times, and ...

At the vast monument in the mountains north of Madrid where the dictator Francisco Franco was once buried, a long, orderly queue is forming. Standing beneath the 150m stone cross that crowns this ...

Every house in Madrid last week displayed either the flag of Nationalist Spain or a picture of Francisco Franco, or both. Along the broad, tree-lined Gran Via and the busy Calle de Alcala leading ...

Juan Carlos ascended the throne in 1975 on the death of Francisco Franco and ruled for 38 years before abdicating in favor of his son Felipe VI in June 2014 Corinna Larsen told Swiss investigators ...