Franco Dictatorship

16.05.2013 - 10.16 pm The Spanish Government's Delegate in Catalonia pays tribute to Hitler's soldiers María de los Llanos de Luna, from the People’s Party (PP), gave a diploma to a brotherhood of the ‘Divisón Azul’, a division of Spanish volunteers...	18.03.2013 - 08.11 pm Italian bombings of Barcelona during Spanish Civil War to be investigated by provincial High Court During the Spanish Civil War, from 1936 to 1939, Franco’s rebels received military help from Italy among other countries. The Italian Legionary Air...	06.11.2012 - 10.17 pm Singer-songwriter Raimon celebrates his 50th anniversary on stage with a retrospective exhibition Raimon is one of the most important artists in the Catalan language, and is part of the group of singer-songwriters of the ‘Nova Cançó’. Raimon’s...	29.08.2011 - 08.04 pm Catalonia’s political class pays its respects to the elder of the Catalan independence movement Heribert Barrera, who became the first president of the reinstituted Catalan Parliament after Franco, died last Saturday aged 94 years old. He was...
21.02.2011 - 09.22 pm Franco's symbols are still visible in some streets in Catalonia More than 30 years after the end of the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, some towns have yet to remove the symbols that celebrated the...	03.02.2011 - 10.19 pm The “universal pain” from the forced disappeared pictured in an exhibition Photojournalist Gervasio Sánchez culminates a decade of his work with a new exhibition called ‘Disappeared’. He has pictured the pain of family...	02.02.2011 - 11.25 pm Pau Casals' widow urges to recuperate the anthem the famous cellist composed for the UN Marta Casals asks the Spanish Government to ask the UN to recuperate the anthem that 40 years ago Pau Casals especially composed. The anthem was used...	30.09.2010 - 08.49 pm Franco dictatorship resistance cinema screens in Berlin The Babylon Cinema of Berlin will screen 11 Catalan films produced during the Franco regime as part of their series of ‘radical, transgressive and...
30.08.2010 - 09.20 pm 114,000 families still searching for missing loved ones from the Spanish Civil War and the Franco regime Amnesty International has released information suggesting that over 114,000 families from the Spanish state still have no solution to the...	18.08.2010 - 05.59 pm Spain urged to pay tribute to Catalan president executed by Franco Catalan vice-president, Josep Lluís Carod Rovira, asks the Spanish Government to avoid obstacles and to join Catalonia in honouring president Lluís...	12.08.2010 - 06.03 pm Tribute in France to Catalan president arrested by Nazis and killed by Franco after the Civil War A commemorative plaque is to honour Lluís Companys in the French town of La Baule in Brittany, where he was arrested on 13 August 1940, exactly 70...	11.06.2010 - 04.34 pm Photos from Franco?s dictatorship return to Barcelona streets A street exhibition shows large scale pictures representative of Franco?s times in the same places in which they were taken. The photos focus on the...