Inside the ‘compromise’ over Spain’s Civil War memorial

Inside the ‘compromise’ over Spain’s Civil War memorial

Valle de los Cuelgamuros. Image credit: Jorge Díaz Bes, CC BY-SA 3.0Almost 85 years after General Francisco Franco led the Nationalists to victory, the Spanish Civil War is the kind of conflict that just refuses to die — and continues to motivate social discussion and strife across Spain.Few symbols express this more deeply than the Valle de los Caídos, or “Valley of the Fallen,” which is once more at the center of a dispute involving the ideolo…