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On a mountain 28 miles northwest of Madrid last week assembled the flower of Franco Spain—Cabinet ministers, generals, admirals, all of the nation’s four cardinals, 37 of its bishops, six mitered ...

Half a century after Franco’s death, his legacy still sparks debate in Madrid. Portraits and memorabilia glorifying the dictator are sold at markets, attracting curious buyers, including young people.

The end of the Franco era in Spain is near. Just how near no one can say, for the dictator has proved himself immensely durable. Almost a quarter of a century has passed since El Caudillo defeated the ...

Spain's leftist government on Wednesday announced 480 new events would be held this year to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of right-wing dictator Francisco Franco and the restoration of ...

On Jan. 8, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid to launch the 50th anniversary of the death of dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain from the end of the ...

A 1975 photo shows Francisco Franco (far right), his wife Carmen Polo (middle) and Prince Juan Carlos (left) at a public event. (Fotograaf Onbekend/Anefo via Wikimedia Commons) (CN) — Spain marked a ...

MADRID -- Even in his grave, the 20th-century dictator who ruled Spain with an iron fist keeps dividing the country. Spain's new center-left government says removing the embalmed body of Gen.

Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez is a history professor at Trent University. Adrian Shubert is a history professor at York University. Early in the morning of Nov. 20, 1975, the prime minister of Spain, Carlos ...

A family grave stone of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's family is pictured inside Catabois cemetery, in the city where Franco was born, in Ferrol, Spain, November 11, 2025. Ferrol preserves ...