ByKristian Davis

VALLE DE LOS CAÍDOS

WHERE IS VALLE DE LOS CAIDOS?

Its right were the little D is…

QUICK SUMMARY OF VALLE DE LOS CAIDOS

• The monument is an underground church and tomb topped with a 500 foot stone cross, which can be seen from a distance of up to 30 miles. Although supposedly honoring all the dead in the Spanish Civil war, only two names are commemorated, those of General Francisco Franco and of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (and safely dead before the mausoleum was started).

Francisco José Antonio

THE VALLEY IN GENERAL• THE VALLEY OF THE FALLEN “VALLE DE LOS CAIDOS” IS IN SIERRA DE

GUADARRAMA, NEAR MADRED.• IT IS ONE OF THE MOST VISITED MONUMENTS IN SPAIN.• THE MONUMENT OF THE CROSS IT SELF IS 152.4 METER (500 FEET)

HIGH!!!• THE CROSS IS MADE OUT OF STONE.• THERE IS A MOUMENT (THE GIANT CROSS), THERE IS A MONESTARY, AND

A FRONT ENTERANCE• THE “ACUALE TOMB IN THE VALLE DE LOS CAIDOS IS DEDICATED TO

FRANCISCO FRANCO, THE FACIOUST DICTATIOR OF SPAIN, AND ALSO TO SOME OF THE SPANISH FIGHTERS.

• THERE IS SOME CONTROVERSY IN SPAIN, OF THE VALLEY, BECAUSE IT WAS BUILT BY SPAINS POLITICAL PRISONERS.

HISTORY OF THE VALLEY• THE VALLE DE LOS CAIDOS WAS COMPLETED IN 1959.• WAS BUILT IN COMMEMERATION OF FRANCISCO FRANCO.

– FRANCISCO FRANCO WAS SPAINS FACIOUST LEADER. DURING WORLD WAR 2, HE BASICLY TOLD HITLER THAT IF HE WERE TO BRING THE WAR TO SPAIN, HE WOULD COUNTER ACT BY FIGHTING HITLERS NAZI ARMY WITH EVERY MAN HE HAD, DOWN TO THE LAST ONE.• THIS IS THE REASON THAT THERE ARE SO MANY OLD STRUCTURES, AND PEACES OF ARCITECURE IN SUCH

GOOD CONDITION IN SPAIN. BECAUSE OF FRANCISCO FRANCOS BOLD STAND UP TO HITLER, HITLER DID NOT BOMB SPAIN.

• FRANCO’S COFFIN HAS BEEN LAID TO REST IN THE MONUMENT IN A SPECIAL ROOM, THE ONE BELOW.

SOME PICTURES FROM ALL AROUND THE VALLEY

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