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Pull up a seat

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Pull up a seat in the Parque Federico Garcia Lorca in Alfacar, Granada, Spain, and meditate on the poet’s death and those of his 3 close companions, plus the thousands of others assassinated by Franco’s rebel army in the area, just a few days after the outbreak of Spain’s Civil War.

The Park was inaugurated by the Provincial Council of Granada in 1986 to pay tribute to the thousands shot between Alfacar and Viznar and has been declared a Place of Historical Memory.

Sombre yes, but good to have such a place to commemorate a great poet and playwright, and the thousands of other victims of the Spanish Civil War..

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    Lookoom

    Civil wars are the worst as both sides have their rights and are on their own land. Free elections and tolerance might resolve these disagreements.

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      The trouble is that free elections don’t always work. Spain had elected a government in a free vote but the Falangists didn’t like the result and rebelled against it, starting a Civil War in which hundreds of thousands lost their lives.

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