As part of the ‘Charlas con café y piñonate 2024’ programme, organised by Jimena de la Frontera council’s Tourism Department, there will be a talk called ‘La Arqueología de la Memoria. Las fosas de Jimena de la Frontera’ in the events room at the Casa de la Memoria La SaucedaSeguir leyendo…
Work began this week to locate mass graves containing victims of Franco repression in the municipal cemetery in Tarifa. The works, which are being financed by the Diputación de Cádiz, are being coordinated by archaeologist Jesús Román Román. In 2022 geo-radar testing showed alterations in the subsoil in several areasSeguir leyendo…
Trebujena council has announced that another mass grave containing six bodies has been found during the exhumation works that are being carried out in the cemetery. The announcement was made by the Historical Memory councillor, Ana Luisa Robredo, to coincide with the visit by the provincial government’s head of HistoricalSeguir leyendo…
The soundings in the municipal cemetery to locate mass graves containing people who were shot by the fascist forces between 1936 and 1945 will begin at the end of November, archaeologist Jesús Román Román, the coordinator of the project, told a meeting on Saturday. The works are being carried outSeguir leyendo…
La Línea Council and the Forum for Historical Memory of the Campo de Gibraltar are organising a meeting for relatives of people from the town who disappeared or were shot by Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil war and the subsequent dictatorship. The meeting is to provide information, because soundingsSeguir leyendo…
The second phase of exhumations in Jimena de la Frontera has now finished. The Cádiz provincial government has published a book by the late Carlos Perales Pizarro. The Casa de la Memoria Association has signed a cooperation agreement with Los Barrios council. Guadalajara is holding a series of cultural eventsSeguir leyendo…
The second phase of exhumations of victims of Franco from the old cemetery in Jimena de la Frontera castle has now finished. The works, which began on 1 June, were led by archaeologist María José Gámez Cano and coordinated by Jesús Román Roman. The remains of six more people wereSeguir leyendo…
Spain’s new Democratic Memory bill, more victims of Franco found in Jimena, fascinating talks on the Civil War via La Voz de la Memoria and commemorations to mark 85 years since the Civil War began.Seguir leyendo…
Archaeologists working at the old cemetery in the castle at Jimena de la Frontera have found another mass grave containing at least five more of Franco’s victims. This is the second phase of the exhumation works, which are financed by the Cádiz provincial government and the Mancomunidad de Municipios ofSeguir leyendo…
Exhumation works are now being carried out of one of the largest mass graves in the Valencia region. Known as number 114, it is in the cemetery in Paterna, where about 197 victims of Francoism are believed to be buried. Experts hope to find the remains of 31 people inSeguir leyendo…
In the news this episode, podcasts of talks in our conference cycle, La Voz de la Memoria on local radio, preparations for more exhumations at Jimena de la Frontera cemetery, the Spanish government plans to return works of art to their rightful owners, and a gold and diamond dagger giftedSeguir leyendo…