About an hour northwest of Madrid, an enormous stone crucifix rises 500 feet out of a rocky mountaintop. It’s so big you can see it from miles away. Beneath the cross, there’s a sprawling Benedictine monastery and a basilica carved out of the mountain. This place is called the Valley of the Fallen. And it’s likely the most controversial monument in Spain.[…]
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I am surprised that Franco was allowed to lie there until last year …
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The arguments have raged the whole time and form a backdrop to the ETA and Catalonian disputes (in slightly different ways). I think the consequences of dealing with the aftermath of the Franco regime were too ghastly to contemplate for all concerned…
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Yes, maybe they were just happy then that it was finally over …
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Yes a new beginning!
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