The Valley of the Fallen - Remembering the Civil War
June 1st 2013 Some 60km northwest of Madrid midway between the towns of El Escoril and Guadarrama an enormous cross stands in the middle of a giant pine forest. It's quite hard to get there. Indeed, without a car, we would probably never have done so. It doesn't even seem to receive a lot of publicity, but then again, the Spanish Civil War is still a very touchy subject.
The cross and the carved figu
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