Just before Alfonso XIII’s flight from Madrid, Emilio Mola was chief of police in Spain, won the title of “the most hated man in Spain” for ordering Civil Guards to fire on the students.

Spain's aging Generalissimo Franco dressed up recently in his fanciest uniform and medals to pay a visit to his home region of Galicia on the occasion of the annual feast in La Coruña to ...

The remains of former dictator Francisco Franco were exhumed, concluding a protracted battle that has revived divisions over how to commemorate Spain’s painful 20th-century history.

The Vatican will not oppose the exhumation of the remains of the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and their removal from a huge mausoleum outside Madrid built in memory of the fallen in the ...

Disagreements and disputes over the representation of Spain’s civil war years have slowed the development of the country’s first national civil war museum. The hard-right Popular Party (PP ...

A controversial law that will officially condemn the Franco dictatorship has been presented to parliament in the hope of healing the deep wounds that have divided Spain since the start of the ...

A dark and painful part of Spain’s history will be brought back under the spotlight Thursday when the remains of Francisco Franco are exhumed from a landmark basilica in the hills near Madrid.

Spain's Socialist government passed a decree on Friday allowing the exhumation of the remains of Francisco Franco from his vast mausoleum, a decision that divides Spaniards and has opened old ...

Work started on Monday to exhume bodies of Spanish Civil War victims from a huge monument outside Madrid, built under the auspices of dictator Francisco Franco, following a six-year legal battle ...

A dark and painful part of Spain's history will be brought back under the spotlight Thursday when the remains of Francisco Franco are exhumed from a landmark basilica in the hills near Madrid.