He joined a military coup, fought ruthlessly in the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as the dictator of Spain. For almost 40 years, Franco worked to transform the country into a bastion of tradition.

Know more • As Spain prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator Francisco ... considered the living legacy of Franco, using the same narratives about Spanish identity and national origins.

The Spanish state on Thursday took over former dictator General Francisco Franco's summer palace, complete with its vast art trove, and evicted his heirs as part of the leftist government's ...

A Spanish court has ruled that a doctor stole ... the country’s Civil War and the decades of General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship that followed. Vela, who was the director of a Madrid ...

A memorial honouring volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War would help bring a city and Spain ...

who is revolutionizing the Spanish music scene, tells EFE that folklore has been cornered for many years in Spain because the Franco dictatorship “appropriated” it, but that more and more ...

Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain between 1939 and 1939, successfully led the national side against the republicans during the Spanish Civil War. His three-year campaign concluded victoriously ...

The history of Spanish football is the history of Spain ... depicted as being the favoured team of General Francisco Franco - the dictator who ruled Spain from the late 1930s until his death ...

More than 300,000 Cubans are currently engaged in obtaining Spanish citizenship through the Democratic Memory Law, commonly ...

After the success of Franco's Settlers, their first encounter with Franco's dictatorship, they are now setting their sights on one of the darkest chapters of European history: the presumed ...

From the 1950s, as foreign tourists poured onto its beaches, Spain lobbied hard to join the European Economic Community, ...

... but it has friendly relations with the communist dictatorship of China ...