Víznar III (Barranco de Víznar), Granada (2016). Between 2.500 and 3.000 people are believed to have been buried in this ravine in the years 1936 to 1951.
Víznar II (Barranco de Víznar), Granada (2016). The pharmacist and feminist Milagro Almenara Pérez, 36, was murdered on 2 November 1936 along with Rosario Fregenal Piñar, Rosa Segura Calero and Concha Pertíñez Tabasco between Víznar and Alfacar.
Víznar I (Sierra de Alfacar), Granada (2016). The poet and playwright, Federico García Lorca was murdered at dawn on 17 or 18 August 1936 between Víznar and Alfacar, along with a school teacher, Dióscoro Galindo, and the anarchists Francisco Galadí and Joaquín Arcollas.
Víznar IV (Llanos de Corbera), Granada (2016). This area had open wells and a shooting range during the years of repression. There may be as many as 400 victims at the bottom of these wells, among them Lorca, shot 17 or 18 August 1936.
Barranco del Carrizal, Órgiva, Granada (2016). On 11 August 1936, Manuel López López, deputy mayor of Lanjarón, and his sons Antonio and Félix, were shot by the Guardia Cívil and Falangists and disappeared here. Some 4.000 people were killed and buried in quicklime in this ravine.
Cementerio de San José, Granada (2016). Manuel Carmona Ruiz, 35, a metallurgist and trade unionist was accused of illegal possession of weapons and executed here on 15 August 1936 at 5 am. Between 1936 and 1956, 3.969 people were executed at the walls of the cemetery.
Cementerio de San Juan, Badajoz (2016). In 2009 a new and higher wall was built to hide the original cemetery wall, a symbol of the Francoist repression. After the conquest of Badajoz on 14 August 1936 the rebels murdered between 1.800 and 4.000 people. Many were executed on this spot.
Palacio de Congresos (former bullring), Badajoz (2016). On 14 August 1936 thousands had been rounded up here to be executed. In 2006, 70 years later, the bullring was demolished and replaced with the Badajoz Congress Centre.
Castuera I (Concentration Camp), Badajoz (2016). Badajoz. This pedestal once carried a cross that presided over the main square of the camp. Between 8.000 and 9.000 prisoners (some studies claim as many as 20.000) were held here 1939-40.
Castuera II (Concentration Camp), Badajoz (2016). The Gamonita mine shown here and other mines around the concentration camp are believed to contain hundreds of people, disappeared from April 1939 to March 1940.
Castuera III (Concentration Camp), Badajoz (2016). From April 1939 to March 1940 hundreds of prisoners were eliminated in the camp or ‘taken for a walk’ and shot by Falangist groups of the area.
Llano de Maja (El Teide), Tenerife (2017). Francoist militias murdered more than 400 people on the island after 18 July 1936. An undefined number of ‘disappeared’ are believed to have been thrown into caves around the Llano de Maja within the Teide National Park.
San Andrés, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2017). After 18 July 1936. On this coast victims of reprisals were thrown into the sea in sacks weighed down with stones, sometimes when they were still alive.
Valle de los Caídos III (Cuelgamuros), Madrid (2016). The Valley of the Fallen is the site of the largest mass grave in Spain. Built by the forced labour of political prisoners, and inaugurated on 1 April 1959, it contains the remains of 33.833 people.
Valle de los Caídos I (Cuelgamuros), Madrid (2016). The bodies of 12.410 unidentified Republicans, victims of the dictator, were transferred here, from 1959, without the knowledge of their families.
Valle de los Caídos II (Cuelgamuros), Madrid (2016). Rainwater has been allowed to leak through fissures in the granite cliff out of which the monument, inaugurated in 1959, was carved, flooding parts of the mass graves and leaving wooden boxes containing bones to rot and fall apart.
Monte de Estépar II, Burgos (2016). More than 300 people were shot here between August and October 1936. They were ‘taken out’ from the Burgos prison to be executed.
Monte de Estépar III, Burgos (2016). This grave on Mount Estépar measuring 4.70 x 1.90m contained 26 bodies in three layers, murdered between August and October 1936.
Monte de Estépar II, Burgos (2016). Stones placed at grave sites help families honour missing loved ones, murdered between August and October 1936. Many have been buried under the excavations necessary for construction of the high-speed train tracks and the A-62 highway.
Tresviso I (La Mesa), Cantabria (2016). After the fall of the northern front on 21 October 1937, many fighters fled to the Asturias mountains, forming guerrilla groups in the most rugged areas such as the Liébana Valley.
Tresviso II (La Mesa), Cantabria (2016). Avelino Fernández Bravo, a 29-year-old lieutenant in Battalion 257 of the Army of the North, was heading home when he was murdered and buried somewhere near the plateau in November 1937.
Areces I (Field of the Basques), Las Regueras, Asturias (2016). Las Regueras, Asturias. A dovecot stands beside a trench where locals buried some 80 soldiers of the Basque army. The wounded from an improvised field hospital were murdered around noon on 23 February 1937 – mostly by bayonet.
Areces ll (Field of the Basques), Las Regueras, Asturias (2016). Las Regueras, Asturias. These fields are now reserved for pasture because in the past ploughing has turned up human remains. Eighty-seven Basque militiamen are still listed as missing in the area, since 23 February 1937.
O Candedo, Ourol, Lugo (2016). Three women of the Casabella family – María Xosé, her daughter Felicitas and 13-year old grand-daughter Encarna – were murdered by the Falangists on 16 April 1938, their cattle and grain destroyed. Their bodies got lost.
O Amenal II, O Pino, La Coruña (2016). In 2007, a grave containing the bodies of the three other municipal councillors (Caitán García Vázquez, Isidro and Andrés Filloy López), murdered on 20 August 1936, was excavated on the left side of the road.
O Amenal I, O Pino, A Coruña (2016). On 20 August 1936, Falangists ordered five municipal councillors from Boimorto to run down this hill. Ramón Vázquez Garea and Ramón Sánchez Rapela, were shot in the back as they did so. Due to changes in land use the grave has been lost.
San Juan de Ortoño I, Ames, La Coruña (2016). A Coruña. Another six councillors (Manuel Lopez Espiñeira, Ramón Enjamio Pombo, Antonio Felpete Budiño, Xoan Martínez Bao, José Tojo García and José Barreiro Pérez) were shot and thrown into a ditch near Ortoño on the same day, on 20 August 1936.
San Juan de Ortoño II, Ames, A Coruña (2016). The six corpses were recovered the next morning, on 21 August 1936, by the priest of San Juan and buried in a common grave in the atrium of the church. As yet it has not been possible to recover the bodies.
Campo de la Rata (Sculpture Parc), A Coruña (2016). On 23 October 1936 eight recruits, accused of revolting against their rebel leaders, were executed here. Hundreds of people were shot here between July 1936 and April 1939.
Villafranca del Bierzo II, León.(2016). A 28-year-old day labourer, Inocencio Cristalino García, was buried by neighbours outside this cemetery on 13 January 1937. He was finished off by the Guardia Civil after he leapt from the viaduct of Villafranca.
Villafranca del Bierzo I, León (2016). A storage shed was later built on top of the grave that neighbours had dug for Inocencio Cristalino García, in January 1937.
Villalibre de la Jurisdicción I, León (2016). Sixteen-year-old Arsenio Macias was killed 500m from his home, between 1936 and 1937, and buried near an electrical transformer. He was murdered by Falangists because he refused to reveal the whereabouts of his older brother Claudio.
Villalibre de la Jurisdicción II, León (2016). According to a great-niece of the two brothers, Arsenio was tied to a tree and hacked to death with a machete, between 1936 and 1937. The extension of the N-536 road has made it impossible to find his body.
Villalibre de la Jurisdicción III, León (2016). Claudio Macías lived hidden as a ‘ mole’ in the cellar of the family home. He wanted his sisters to avoid the same fate as his brother Arsenio. Before dying of a lung disease, in 1937, he dug his own grave in the cellar.
Antiguo Cementerio del Carmen, Ponferrada, León (2016). Antonio Fernández Guerrero, 25, and José Canedo Fernández, 26, were shot in front of the cemetery wall on 21 May 1942 and buried in a common grave. The cemetery was closed, but the grave is probably still there and could hold 200 others.
Montearenas (A-6 motorway), Ponferrada, León (2016). The construction of the motorway entailed the loss of several mass graves. There are 60 documented murders in the area, but there may be more than 200. Bernabé González Cañas, 29, was shot and buried in a mass grave on 20 September 1937.
La Retuerta I (Bend of Death), Villagatón, León (2016). Seven people were murdered on 4 August 1936 at this bend on the old highway to Madrid. Detained in Ponferrada, the seven prisoners were told that they were going to be transferred to León.
La Retuerta II (Bend of Death), Villagatón, León (2016). The bodies of the seven, murdered on 4 August 1936, who included José Gallego Redondo, 23, a footballer with the Ponferradina Sports Club, were thrown to the bottom of the valley.
Cementerio de Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Valladolid (2016). A newspaper clipping dated 6 August 1936 with a report on the Tour de France was found in the decomposed jacket of a man aged 55 to 60. The cemetery may contain up to ten mass graves. So far 228 bodies have been recovered from four graves.
Montes de Torozos II, Valladolid (2016). From 1936 to 1939, this grove of oak trees was the site of hundreds of executions. Later they were buried in mass graves in the vicinity.
Montes de Torozos I, Valladolid (2016). This monument to the victims of the Franco regime, murdered from 1936 to 1939, has been vandalised several times in the past. In 2013, a section of the new highway linking Valladolid and León was inaugurated. The engineering works came very close to the area.
Raïmats, La Fatarella, Tarragona (2016). The body of an Italian member of the International Brigades was found in this trench. He died just before 4 pm on the last day of the Battle of the Ebro, 15 November 1938. Due to the installation of wind farms in the area, human remains are found on a regular basis.
Monte Ezcaba (Fuerte de San Cristóbal), Navarra (2017). On 22 May 1938, there was a mass break out from the prison at the fort. Some 207 of the 795 prisoners involved were killed. Today, the fort and its surroundings contain the bodies of the shot fugitives, as well as 400 prisoners who were left to die of starvation.
La Modelo I (Cell 443), Barcelona (2017). The young anarchist Salvador Puig Antich, 25, spent his last night in cell 443 of the La Modelo prison, 1-2 March 1974. His four sisters are still fighting to have his case reviewed, challenging the irregularities of the legal process under Franco.
La Modelo II (Parcel Office), Barcelona (2017). Salvador Puig Antich was executed here on 2 March 1974. His execution by garrotte, an agonising medieval method (banned in 1978), began at 9.20 am and his death was certified by a medical officer 20 minutes later.
Campo de la Bota II (Parque del Fórum), Barcelona (2017). Carme Claramunt Bonet, 41, was the first woman to be shot here, at dawn of 23 April 1939. In the following months ten more women were executed.
Campo de la Bota III (Parc del Fòrum), Barcelona (2017). Forty-four soldiers who had taken part in the military coup were shot here by the Republican authorities on 9-10 October 1936. The Campo de la Bota has disappeared as it was completely redeveloped and renamed for the construction of the Parc del Fòrum.
Campo de la Bota I (Parc del Fòrum), Barcelona (2017). Between 1939 and 1952, 1.717 people were shot at the Campo de la Bota by the Franco regime. The bodies would later be thrown into the Fossar de la Pedrera.
Fossar de la Pedrera (Montjuïc), Barcelona (2017). The disused quarry contains thousands of people from both sides: victims of the anti-fascist militias, of the events of May 1937, of the bombing of Barcelona between 16 and 18 March 1938 and 3.400 victims of Francoist executions between 1939 and 1952.
San Rafael Cemetery, Málaga (2020). After February 1937, the occupation of Málaga, 4,471 people were murdered here. The exhumation of 2,840 bodies in 2006 unearthed one of the biggest extermination sites of the Francoist repression in Spain.
Saturrarán, Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia, Basque Country (2020). Saturrarán was a central prison for women between 1938 and 1944. More than 4000 republican prisoners passed through Saturrarán cells. It was demolished in 1987 and only a few traces remain. 116 women and 57 children died here.