The Valley of the Fallen will change its name for the original of Valle de Cuelgamuros

When Franco decided that he wanted to build a mausoleum in memory of the victims of the Civil War, he chose the former Pinar de Co -Moros, a name that was modified in the nineteenth century by Cuelgamuros.The Democratic Memory Law will now return to that denomination instead of Valle de los Falle.

The Government attends an express request from ERC to undertake the change, as stated in one of the amendments agreed by the PSOE and united we can in the articles of the Democratic Memory Law, which also urges to relocate the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, who occupy a side next to the main altar.

So, as do the coalition partners in the joint amendments registered yesterday to this legislative project, the Catalan Republicans propose in a modification proposal to rename the enclave where 33 are buried 33.800 corpses to be officially called "Cuegamuros Valley".It is the least aggressive request regarding the monumental complex, since the deputy spokesman of the Republicans in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, had pointed out that "if it were for Republican Esquerra, this species of mausoleum in honor of the fascism called Valley of the Fallen would be demolished".An online suggestion with that expressed by the Confederal Left group, which brought the Senate a proposal to demolish the cross, and that we can secund and support on its own initiative.

According to the amendment now presented, the intention of the change of name is that the Valle de Co -Camuros becomes a place of historical memory, opting for a resignification that it intends to make “pedagogy about the circumstances of its construction and its historical period, in order to strengthenConstitutional and democratic values ».

The amendment points out that "they can only lie the mortal remains of deceased people as a result of the war, as a place of recognition, commemoration, memory and tribute to the victims there inhumated".

In addition, it asks to relocate "any mortal rest that occupies a preeminent place in the enclosure", in direct reference to José Antonio Primo de Rivera.The Government will offer its relatives the possibility of burying it in the crypts or taking it to another place of their choice.

A Royal Decree will establish the new Legal Framework applicable to the Valley of Cuelgamuros "that determines the organization, operation and patrimonial regime of the enclave", dependent on the foundation of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen, in charge of Benedictine monks, but administerstemporarily national heritage.

The amendment contemplates attending the claims and requests of family members "who are intended."In the case of technical impossibility of exhumation, symbolic and moral repair measures will be agreed".The bodies are in anonymous wooden boxes in the crypts.Over time, many have deteriorated and the bones of the buried have ended up mixing, which can greatly hinder their identification.

The only bodies that were buried in individual tombs in the Valley of the Fallen were those of José Antonio Primo de Rivera and, when he died in 1975, that of Francisco Franco, reinhumated in October 2019 in the Cemetery of Mingorrubio (Madrid), afterThe approval of the Government of Pedro Sánchez and the endorsement of the Supreme Court after a long legal battle undertaken by the Franco family, which reached Strasbourg.In the opinion of his lawyer and spokesman, Luis Felipe Utrera-Molol."The logical thing is that, according to the prevailing current, it is called Valley of the Fallen and of the falls (in fact there are a few religious martyrs of red terror buried there," he has written on his Twitter profile.

For his part, the president of the Franco Foundation, Juan Chicharro, believes that it is “one more step towards the final objective that is none other than the demolition of the cross.They do not support or tolerate it.As good Taliban sectarians, they will not stop their hatred until we get it ».The general regrets that "the strange thing is that they will do it among the relativistic indifference of a distinctized society".