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Inside Europe: Spain still divided by Franco

Guy Hedgecoe
February 2, 2018

Four decades after the arrival of democracy, dictator Francisco Franco continues to divide Spain. The Valley of the Fallen, a monument he built after his victory in the 1936-39 civil war, houses his remains and the bodies of over 30,000 casualties from that conflict in unmarked graves. Some Spaniards want to exhume their loved ones, but it’s not a straightforward task. Guy Hedgecoe reports.

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