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.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.
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.
On the coast of San Andrés, prisoners were thrown to the bottom of the sea in tied sacks with stones. In some cases the victims were thrown alive into the sea. In the case of one reprisal, victim of a frustrated attempt to disappear him, some fishermen managed to catch one of the sacks with the person inside still alive. They secretly took him to the coast of Anaga, where they helped him to hide in a cave and gave him food for months until he surrendered finally.
