If the exhumation could not be stopped, Franco's heirs had wanted his remains to be moved to the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid, where his daughter is buried. But the government feared the central ...

Spain's Catholic Church said Thursday it would not oppose the exhumation of the remains of late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and their removal from a huge state mausoleum outside Madrid. Spain's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skull of one of the two victims who were shot in 1936 by the forces of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco during the exhumation ...

MADRID — Spain’s Socialist government passed a decree on Friday allowing the exhumation of the remains of Francisco Franco from his vast mausoleum, a decision that divides Spaniards and has opened old ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended the exhumation, planned for June 10, of the remains of former dictator General Francisco Franco from a state mausoleum, pending the result ...