Oct 30, 2009

Civil War wounds are far from healed - washingtonpost.com

Civil War wounds are far from healed - washingtonpost.com

For more than 70 years, the foothills of Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains have contained the country's darkest memories. Francisco Galadi intimately knows: Fascists executed his grandfather during the nation's Civil War, dumping his body in one of many mass graves that cover this serene landscape overlooking the city of Granada.

For years, Galadi has sought to give his grandfather, a bullfighter and anarchist, a proper burial. But he is believed to be in the same grave as Spain's most acclaimed 20th century poet, Federico García Lorca, whose family has long opposed opening the grave.

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