Valle de los Caidos

The Valle de los Caidos is a Franco's regime monument, Catholic basilica and a enormous memorial within the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, erected at Cuelgamuros Valley in the Sierra de Guadarrama, near Madrid. Franco claimed that the monument became supposed to be a "country wide act of atonement" and reconciliation. The Valley of the Fallen, as a surviving monument of Franco's rule, and its Catholic basilica continue to be debatable, in component given that 10% of the construction personnel consisted of convicts, who voluntarily, in alternate for a discount of sentence, decided to collaborate; because of thge high uneployement price then, a few convicts endured paid paintings after sentences termed.

The Valle de los Caidos seems in Richard Morgan's 2002 novel Altered Carbon, where it's far getting used as a base of operations for one of the important antagonists, Reileen Kawahara. It additionally seems inside the 2010 Spanish comedy terror film The Last Circus Spanish: Balada triste de trompeta. Graham Greene's 1982 novel Monsignor Quixote uses a visit to the Valle to demonstrate the competing political and social attitudes to Franco's reign and the reputation of his tomb in current Spain. Explore and experience this place more.