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unusual facts about Spain under Franco



Avinguda de Prat de la Riba, Lleida

Avinguda Prat de la Riba, formerly called Avenida del General Mola during the Francoist dictatorship, is one of the main avenues of the city of Lleida.

Nikos Kavvadias

Another is about the execution of Andalusian poet and writer Federico García Lorca by the Franco dictatorship, which, in the poem, is associated with the destruction of the Greek village of Distomo and other brutal acts done by the Nazi forces occupying Greece during the Second World War.

Spanish destroyer Almirante Ferrándiz

When a Republican squadron penetrated the Cantabrian Sea to relieve Republican toops isolated in the North, she remained in the strait with Gravina to stop any movement of Nationalist troops between Africa and the Iberian peninsula.


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