Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos

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Valley of the Fallen (Spanish: Valle de los Caídos.) - a monumental complex in Spain, 58 km from Madrid, in the Guadarrama mountains, including the Catholic basilica, abbey and the memorial. It covers an area of 1365 gektarov.Zdes buried body over 33,700 killed in the Civil War on both sides of the man, with a body of more than 12 000 dead Republicans were buried there without the knowledge of their families, since 1959. From November 1975 to October 2019 in the crypt of the Basilica at the foot of the altar was located the tomb of Francisco Franco