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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 near Víznar.
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March 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Finishing touches of the exhibition Memoria Perdida at the Kunst10Daagse art festival in Bergen.
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Loudelsweg 38, Bergen (Noord-Holland)
Sat. 18 to Sun. 26 October, daily from 10:00 to 17:00
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October 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This the closest to the original site of the Camp de la Bota parapet atrocity site with a small information panel. Flats have been build on this spot. Historical memory has been lost. Shame on you ajuntament.barcelona.cat and Generalitat de #Catalunya. #memoriahistorica #memoriaperdida
September 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is the first historical map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and Franco's regime throughout Spain, where you can discover the approximately 6,000 registered graves and recover the memory of some of the victims. www.rtve.es/noticias/fos...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
50 years after Franco’s death, the surviving children of his regime’s victims are racing against time to recover and identify the remains of their parents, still lying in more than 3,300 mass graves from the Spanish Civil War scattered across Spain. miquelgonzalez.com/memoria/en/
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Memoria Perdida | In Search of Spain's Lost Memory
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November 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Don't miss out my exhibition Memoria Perdida at the Kunst10Daagse art festival in Bergen if you happen to be around.
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Loudelsweg 38, Bergen (Noord-Holland)
Sat. 18 to Sun. 26 October, daily from 10:00 to 17:00
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Memoria Perdida at the Kunst10Daagse
Memoria Perdida at the Kunst10Daagse art festival in Bergen (Noord-Holland)
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October 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Just came across this video on my phone from the Memoria Perdida exhibition in A Coruña — a beautiful moment of Carmela Galego reading Lorca.
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Carmela Galego reading a poem by Lorca
The art historian Carmela Galego reading a poem by Federico García Lorca in front of my photograph of the Barranco de Víznar where the poet was murdered and made disappear.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Cementerio de San José, Granada (2016). Between 1936 and 1956, 3.969 people were executed at the walls of the cemetery, including two mayors, a municipal judge, several professors and the rector of the University of Granada.
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Cementerio de San José, Granada. (2016)
Manuel Carmona Ruiz, 35, a metallurgist and trade unionist who voluntarily turned himself in to the authorities, was accused of illegal possession of weapons and executed here on 15 August 1936 at 5 a...
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July 22, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Víznar II, Granada. (2016). Hundreds of people have been buried in this ravine in the years 1936 to 1951. Most of them were teachers, university professors, day labourers and other workers murdered by Falangist commanded by the military forces. miquelgonzalez.com/memoria/en/M...
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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. Wh...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is the first historical map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and Franco's regime throughout Spain, where you can discover the approximately 6,000 registered graves and recover the memory of some of the victims. miquelgonzalez.com/news/fosas-d...
#memoriaperdida #memoriahistorica
Fosas de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo
This is the first historical map of the mass graves from the Spanish Civil War and Franco's regime throughout Spain, where you can discover the approximately 6,000 registered graves and recover the me...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Villalibre de la Jurisdicción III, León. (2016)
Since 1937 Claudio Macías lived hidden as a ‘mole’ in the cellar of the family home. Before dying of a lung disease, he dug his own grave in the cellar and built a wooden coffin for his body.
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Villalibre de la Jurisdicción III, León. (2016)
After returning to his village once the front of Asturias had fallen, in 1937, Claudio Macías lived hidden as a ‘mole’ in the cellar of the family home. He wanted his sisters to avoid the same fate as...
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August 13, 2026 at 8:16 AM
This is where the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, accused of being a communist and homosexual, was murdered at dawn on 18 August 1936 along with a school teacher, Dióscoro Galindo, and the anarchists Francisco Galadí and Joaquín Arcollas. #memoriaperdida miquelgonzalez.com/memoria/en/M...
Víznar IV (Llanos de Corbera), Granada. (2016)
This is where the remains of Federico García Lorca and his fellow victims are supposed to be buried. The area had open wells and a shooting range during the years of repression. There may be as many a...
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August 17, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Villalibre de la Jurisdicción I, León. (2016)
Sixteen-year-old Arsenio Macias was killed between 1936 and 1937. He was murdered by Falangists because he refused to reveal the whereabouts of his older brother, Claudio. #memoriaperdida
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Villalibre de la Jurisdicción I, León. (2016)
Sixteen-year-old Arsenio Macias was killed 500 metres from his home, between 1936 and 1937, in what is known as the ‘Villalibre curve’, and buried near an electrical transformer. He was murdered by Fa...
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August 13, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Villalibre de la Jurisdicción II, León. (2016)
Arsenio was tied to a tree and beaten to death between 1936 and 1937. ‘They killed him for not betraying his brother.’ The extension of the N-536 road has made it impossible to find his body. #memoriaperdida
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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. ‘They killed him for not betraying his brother,’ she said. The ext...
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August 13, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Castuera I (Concentration Camp), Badajoz. (2016)
This pedestal carried a cross that presided over the main square of the camp and in front of which prisoners' inspections were held. Up to 9,000 prisoners were held here from April 1939 to March 1940. #memoriaperdida miquelgonzalez.com/memoria/en/0...
Castuera I (Concentration Camp), Badajoz. (2016)
This pedestal once carried a cross that presided over the main square of the camp and in front of which prisoners' inspections were held and religious-patriotic ceremonies celebrated. The camp had 84 ...
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June 7, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Antiguo Cementerio del Carmen, Ponferrada, León. (2016)
The cemetery was closed in 1965 and relocated. The common grave is probably still there holding the remains of 200 bodies including the guerrilla fighter Manuel Girón, who died in 1951. #memoriaperdida
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Antiguo Cementerio del Carmen, Ponferrada, León. (2016)
Two men (Antonio Fernández Guerrero, 25, and José Canedo Fernández, 26) from the locality of Quilós, were shot here in front of the cemetery wall on 21 May 1942 and buried in a common grave. The cemet...
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January 29, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Castuera II (Concentration Camp), Badajoz. (2016)
From 1939 to 1940, hundreds of prisoners were eliminated in the countryside or ‘taken for a walk’ and shot by Falangist groups of the area. miquelgonzalez.com/memoria/en/M...
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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. According to prisoner testimony the ‘c...
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July 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Barranco del Carrizal, Órgiva, Granada.
A levee built in 2003 to prevent "garbage" from washing into the reservoir below. Human remains surfaced during the works and heavy rains. Some 4,000 people were killed and buried in quicklime in this ravine.
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March 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Exhibition available for rent: Memoria Perdida - Sites of Spain's Lost Memory 1936-1975: 32 photos on dibond 90×120cm, framed without glass 93x123cm , with introduction and captions.
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Information on the Exhibition Memoria Perdida
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February 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
El Pais - ‘Deep Space’ presented at the Goethe Institut in Madrid, uses virtual reality to change the totalitarian nature of Civil War monument the Valley of the Fallen.
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An international project to re-think the burial site of former dictator Franco
‘Deep Space,’ presented at the Goethe Institut in Madrid, uses virtual reality to change the totalitarian nature of Civil War monument the Valley of the Fallen
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February 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM