What Happened to the Exhumations in the Valley of Cuelgamuros, the Largest Mass Grave in Spain

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Of the 216 petitions to locate relatives, the Government has managed to hand over 25 remains, also from the Francoist side. The judicial remedies of the ultra-right have hindered the work and there are families, like the Lapeña, waiting for ten years The Valley of the Fallen (renombrated as the Valley of Cuelgamuros after the Democratic Memory Law) was the epic dream of the dictator Francisco Franco. Near Madrid he would build a monumental set o…