Spain's socialist government has passed a decree to exhume the remains of the late fascist dictator Francisco Franco from a huge mausoleum near Madrid. The Valley of the Fallen, 50km (30 miles ...

The relocation of the remains of former dictator Francisco Franco will turn the mausoleum into a memorial ... Critics call the “Valley of the Fallen” site, marked by a 152 meter-high cross ...

After a long legal battle, the remains are being removed from the mausoleum at the request ... were later moved and reburied in the Valley of the Fallen without their families' permission.

Franco will be buried in the same mausoleum where his wife Carmen ... at his own order as a monument to all the fallen in the civil war. The Valley of the Fallen was built by prisoners and was ...