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 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.
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.
The bodies of 12,410 unidentified Republicans, victims of the dictator, were transferred here, from 1959, without the permission or knowledge of their families. The relatives of Ramiro and Manuel Lapeña, for example, learned only a few years ago that they were no longer in the grave where they had been laying flowers for more than 60 years.
