“Franco burned Gernika… but Franco, for me, was Spain’s saviour from everything.” Rafael Madariaga is talking about the bombing of the northern Spanish town of Gernika on April 26, 1937, during the ...
Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Nearly 80 years after a ...
At the end of August 1937, six Italian bombers Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 and 48 Italian fighters Fiat Cr.32 bombed and machine-gunned the last trenches southwest of Bilbao. 6,800 kilos of bombs were ...
The Jon Bilbao Basque Library inside the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center has a new exhibit on display. The Basque Library is part of University Libraries at the University of Nevada, Reno. The exhibit, ...
GERNIKA, Basque Country -- Today the city of Gernika is much like any other in the Basque region, where history crosses paths with the modern era, but April 26 is different. Every year at 3:45 in the ...
A staged-reading to mark the 40th anniversary year of Gernikas return to Spain in 1981. On April 26, 1937, Hitlers Condor Legion bombed Gernika, the sacred city of the Basques. Terrified, a mother ...