A plaque installed at Liverpool town hall in 2016 honours volunteers from Merseyside who fought in the Spanish Civil War. About 200 people from Merseyside fought in the International Brigades ...

The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from 1936 to 1939, took the lives of up to 1 million people, and ended with the Nationalist party as the victor after capturing Madrid.

The world's tallest cross dominates the scene above a Spanish Civil War cemetery and memorial in the Valley of the Fallen (renamed the Valley of Cuelgamuros) near Madrid, pictured in October 2019.

8/20: CBS News 24/7 Episode 1 44:03. The world's oldest living person, Spain's Maria Branyas Morera, who was born in the United States and lived through two world wars, the Spanish Civil War, the ...

The martyrs of the Spanish Civil War The pope also declared 124 martyrs from the Spanish Civil War, all from the Diocese of Jaén, killed between 1936 and 1938. They included 109 diocesan priests ...

Brief history of the Valley of the Fallen. The Valley of the Fallen, inaugurated in 1959, is a monumental complex built after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and is located about 30 miles from ...

STORY BEHIND THE BOOK Julian Zabalbeascoa on rediscovering the Spanish Civil War and his own family lore The author, a child of Basque immigrants, built his debut novel on research and memory ...

Pope Leo XIV carries on his pectoral cross, among others, a relic of an Augustinian martyr bishop, Anselmo Polanco, who was executed during the 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War.

Spain on Thursday returned paintings belonging to a former Madrid mayor that were seized for their protection during the 1936-39 Civil War and never returned under Francisco Franco's dictatorship.

Atop each of the inner, tallest columns stands a full-length bronze figure of a soldier. The figure on the proper right of the gateway is a Civil War soldier; the figure on the proper left is a Rough ...

The father of King Felipe and the “king emeritus” of Spain. Born in 1938—while his family was in exile in Italy due to the Spanish Civil War—he was gradually brought back into the Spanish ...