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…
Representatives of the Forum for the Memory of the Campo de Gibraltar and the Casa de la Memoria Association took part in an event to remember victims of Francoist repression in Cortes de la Frontera on Saturday 4 May. The tribute, which was organised by the Ateneo A Galopar organisation,Seguir leyendo…
The Cádiz provincial council (Diputación de Cádiz) is pressing ahead with its plans to continue searching for mass graves containing victims of Francoist repression in the province. Deputy vice-president Javier Vidal, who is also the head of the institution’s Historical and Democratic Memory Department, recently held a meeting with archaeologistSeguir leyendo…
The Casa de la Memoria Association and the Forum for the Memory of the Campo de Gibraltar will be screening the acclaimed documentary Pico Reja: lo que la verdad esconde on Friday 26 January at the Millán Picazo Auditorium in Algeciras, at 7pm. The film is in Spanish with EnglishSeguir 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 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…
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…