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.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.
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.
The Valley of the Fallen is falling apart, as it is not resistant to humidity and weather changes. The basilica was carved on a granite cliff, a rock that has fissures and through which rainwater flows, which has already flooded part of the common graves, leaving them in a sorry state with piles of boxes with bones falling apart.
