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 Civil War came to an end on April 1, 1939, just days after Francisco Franco’s Nationalist troops entered Madrid. By the time the capital fell, following a long siege, the war’s ...

Cardinal José Cobo is defending his role as an interlocutor between the Vatican and the Spanish government in the process of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

the Franco dictatorship, and the restoration of democracy. He has also written authoritative biographies of General Franco, King Juan Carlos, and Santiago Carrillo, who led the Spanish Communist Party ...

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 ...