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Goonch

Goonch's Journal

November 19, 2021

The remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco were exhumed from his mausoleum

The Valley of the Fallen (Spanish: Valle de los Caídos (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaʎe ðe los kaˈiðos])), is a Catholic basilica and a monumental memorial in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, erected at Cuelgamuros Valley in the Sierra de Guadarrama, near Madrid.[1][2] Dictator Francisco Franco claimed that the monument was meant to be a "national act of atonement" and reconciliation.[3] It served as the burial place of Franco's remains from his death in November 1975 until his exhumation on 24 October 2019, as a result of efforts to remove all public veneration of his dictatorship, and following a long and controversial legal process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Fallen