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fromenglish.elpais.com
3 days ago

A letter reveals what Franco paid (and what he still owed) for the Goya painting he wanted to give to Hitler

Francisco Franco failed to pay 9,000 pesetas for commissioned copies of Goya's Portrait of the Marchioness of Santa Cruz intended as gifts for Adolf Hitler.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Dangerous nostalgia': did Spain's pact of forgetting' after Franco leave new generation open to far right?

Mingorrubio municipal cemetery, which sits where the suburbs of north-west Madrid fade out into the countryside, must have been something of a comedown for a man who was originally laid to rest with a 150-metre-high cross for a headstone and four enormous bronze archangels to watch over him. But six years after his remains were disinterred from the grotesque splendour of the Valley of the Fallen and flown by helicopter to Mingorrubio for reburial, Francisco Franco is at least in good company.
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