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    Cuelgamuros (Spanish: Valle de Cuelgamuros), formerly known as Valley of the Fallen (Spanish: Valle de los Caídos), is a monument in the Sierra de Guadarrama, near...
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    commander-in-chief. Franco died in 1975, aged 82, and was entombed in the Valle de los Caídos. He restored the monarchy in his final years, being succeeded by...
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    admite el recurso de los Franco contra la exhumación del dictador del Valle de los Caídos". eldiario.es. "La Abadía del Valle de los Caídos recurre al Supremo...
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    municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. On the outskirts of San Lorenzo de El Escorial is the national memorial Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen)...
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    Valle de los Caídos, in San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral, mausoleum of José de San...
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  • Sánchez announced its intention to remove Franco's remains from the Valle de los Caídos, the monument to the Civil War on the outskirts of Madrid. On 24...
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    was entitled La Memoria es Vaga (2005), a documentary about the Valle de los Caídos and historical memory in post-Franco Spain. It was screened in the...
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    and 1962),: 17  the Carabanchel Prison, the Valley of the Fallen (Valle de los Caídos) (20,000 political prisoners worked in its construction): 313 : 131 ...
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    Dominion theology Movimiento Nacional Religious nationalism "El Valle de los Caídos explicado a quienes no saben qué es". 8 May 2017. "World's Top 19...
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    erected, some of them substantial buildings. The most imposing is the Valle de los Caídos, the Valley of the Fallen, incorporating a huge basilica built into...
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  • pilgrim songs & dances, 1992) Capilla Musical y Escolanía de la Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos & Atrium Musicae, directed by Luis Lozano & Gregorio Paniagua...
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    Franco from the Valle de los Caídos, a key policy of Pedro Sánchez during the previous legislature. The prior of the Valle de los Caídos' abbey, Santiago...
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    medievalist, first abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Cross of the Valle de los Caídos, member of the Consejo Nacional del Movimiento (the first quasi-parliamentary...
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    the chancel in repair. Longest nave in world: Basílica de la Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos, 262 m (860 ft) total; divided via added partition to not...
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    Abantos, surrounded by thick pine groves, is the Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos ("Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen"). Conceived by General...
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    Fallen in 1959 on YouTube. "La familia de José Antonio Primo de Rivera pide su exhumación del Valle de los Caídos" (in Spanish). 2022. Jones, Sam (April...
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  • is sentenced to work as a slave laborer, at the monument of the Valle de los Caídos. His son, Javier (Sasha Di Bendetto) tries to free him by setting...
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    remove the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco from the Valle de los Caídos. On 29 June 2018, the Archdiocese of Madrid warned the Spanish government...
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    general and dictator (Caudillo of Spain (1936–1975)), relocated from Valle de los Caídos on 24 October 2019 Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás (1900–1988), Franco's...
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    been entombed at the Valle de los Caídos outside Madrid, was exhumed and reburied with her on 24 October 2019. "Carmen Polo de Franco of Spain Dies"...
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    be the largest in the Western Hemisphere, it is smaller than the Valle de los Caídos cross in Spain, which is elevated 500 feet (152.4 m) overground....
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    Generalísimo de los Ejércitos Españoles (Generalissimo of the Spanish Armies), he was referred to as Caudillo of Spain, by the Grace of God. Por la Gracia de Dios...
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    Monument to fallen Shipyard Workers Robledo, Juanjo (2010-12-24). "El Valle de los Caídos: un monumento incómodo para España". BBC Mundo, España. BBC. Media...
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    found after the Coventry Blitz Cross in Valle de los Caídos near Madrid, the highest cross in the world (Juan de Ávalos 1959) The Millennium Cross in Skopje...
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  • Money Heist (redirect from La casa de papel)
    motifs from the Valle de los Caídos were recreated for the interior, and over 50 paintings were painted for the Bank to emulate the Ateneo de Madrid. Parts...
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    de Santa Cruz (dedicated to the Holy Cross, in El Valle de los Caídos), the Basílica Pontificia de San Miguel, the Real Basílica de Nuestra Señora de...
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    and his disciple Diego Méndez were the architects who designed the Valle de los Caídos; they aimed to make the site an eternal metaphor of the regime's...
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  • capital of the Canary Islands Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos, basilica and monument in the Sierra de Guadarrama, near Madrid Santa Cruz (canton),...
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  •  (Catalonia) Gelida, Gelida funicular  (Madrid) San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Valle de los Caídos funicular [es]  (Catalonia)Montserrat: Sant Joan funicular...
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    Valle de los Caídos ("The Valley of the Fallen"), a majestic monument in Madrid where Francisco Franco's body once lay. He married in 1937 María de la...
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