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Model of Valley of the Fallen in foreground, Jorge Buxadé out of focus in the background

EU Parliament Hosts Exhibition on the Valley of the Fallen, That the Spanish Socialists Want To Destroy

Javier Villamor July 16, 2025

A photographic exhibition in Brussels highlights the spiritual and artistic legacy of Spain’s most controversial monument.

Mass at Valley of the Fallen Basilica, Spain, 30 March 2025

Thousands Defy Secularization at Valley of the Fallen Mass

Javier Villamor March 31, 2025

The Spanish government’s intention to desacralize the Civil War monument is viewed by many as another affront to Christians.

Picasso, Guernica, and the Resurrected Christ

Carlos Perona Calvete May 21, 2024

Modernism, in art as in politics, can be integrated into a traditional understanding of man and society’s spiritual dimension.

Spanish PM Plans To Expel Monks from Valley of the Fallen

Bridget Ryder April 5, 2024

The country’s political Left has consistently used the specter of the Civil War as a political tool to rally its most radical flank.

The Last Days of George Orwell

Jonathon Van Maren October 6, 2023

Leftists who claim Orwell as their own would likely be surprised to discover that he was very socially conservative.

Cancel Culture à l’espagnole: The Fate of the Francoist Nobility

Paul du Quenoy July 21, 2023

Under Spain’s Democratic Memory Law, the Francoist nobility was collectively singled out for extirpation, and its heads of family found themselves officially ‘disennobled.’

Land of Upsets and Upheavals

Jorge González-Gallarza June 14, 2023

A segment of Spanish society—the Left’s leaders, if not their voters—has been too quick to paper over the difference between lawful politics and violence.

Exhumations for Spain’s Civil War Dead

Carlos Perona Calvete June 14, 2023

This comes after relatives of the deceased filed a complaint last Thursday, asking that a 2016 sentence requiring this exhumation be carried out.

Biased Application of Spain’s Democratic Memory Law

Carlos Perona Calvete July 28, 2022

The Catalan government does nothing to investigate hundreds of corpses belonging to Civil War era victims of the Popular Front.

Tag: Spanish Civil War

EU Parliament Hosts Exhibition on the Valley of the Fallen, That the Spanish Socialists Want To Destroy

Thousands Defy Secularization at Valley of the Fallen Mass

Picasso, Guernica, and the Resurrected Christ

Spanish PM Plans To Expel Monks from Valley of the Fallen

The Last Days of George Orwell

Cancel Culture à l’espagnole: The Fate of the Francoist Nobility

Land of Upsets and Upheavals

Exhumations for Spain’s Civil War Dead

Biased Application of Spain’s Democratic Memory Law

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