Falange party founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera was executed in 1936
His body had been buried since 1959 at the Valley of the Fallen, a vast monument built by Franco in the mountains north of Madrid. The site has been known officially since last year as Valley of Cuelgamuros, in a bid to remove all public veneration of his dictatorship.
“It will never again be that place where a figure or ideology evoking the dictatorship could be glorified,” said Pilar Alegría, minister of education and spokeswoman for the governing Socialist Party. The remains of Franco were exhumed from the same monument in 2019 and transferred to a cemetery in Madrid.This time the process was more intimate, starting in the early hours of the morning with the media not allowed to enter the area. Primo de Rivera’s coffin was removed from the ground next to the main altar in the site’s basilica and taken to a waiting hearse, where it was driven to San Isidro cemetery in Madrid for reinterment.
The exhumation was facilitated by the coalition government’s historical memory law, approved by parliament last October, which seeks to tackle the legacy of the civil conflict and the Franco dictatorship.
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