The remains of the founder of the Falange will be transferred to the San Isidro cemetery in Madrid, after his relatives requested the exhumation and in accordance with the new democratic law of remembrance.
The Minister for the Presidency, Felix Bolanosannounced this Thursday in Barcelona that the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera from the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen will be exhumed next Monday, April 24.
He said this in statements to the media together with the PSC candidate for mayor of the Catalan capital, Jaume Collboni, during a visit to the Penitentenbuurt. “It’s another step in redefining the valley,” Bolaños said.
The remains of the founder of the Falange will be transferred from their location in the Basilica of the Valley of the Fallen to the San Isidro cemetery in Madridafter what his relatives requested the exhumation and in accordance with the new democratic law of remembrance.
Sources from Moncloa have confirmed this operation, which is being performed after the transfer of the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco from the prominence of the temple where they stood since his death in 1975 to the El Pardo-Mingorrubio Cemetery.
After that excavation, only that of Primo de Rivera remained under consideration, since the law of democratic memory obliges to move the remains located in a “prominent” site of the basilica of the Benedictine abbey, in an enclave protected by the new law has been renamed Valle de wall hanger
The date chosen for the excavation coincides with the day on which the Born 120 years in Madrid of the founder of the Falange.
Primo de Rivera was shot by Republican fighters during the Civil War on November 20, 1936, and after several vicissitudes, his remains were taken to the Valley of the Fallen in 1959, after the inauguration of the compound that Francisco Franco had built. , presided over by a giant stone cross.
his grave the only single that remains in the mausoleum after Franco’s handover, as the more than 33,000 buried combatants from both sides of the Civil War, who rest in the columbariums outside the temple, are in collective locations.
Source: EITB
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