transmit a critical knowledge, as well as the Memories (EUROM) carried out, analysed and even
experience of learning through a public and citizen speculated on the future, present and the possible
pedagogy inside a society that grows in peace and memorial uses of the two largest mausoleums of
democracy, but which is not ignorant. It is complex, terror that exist in Europe and Spain: the monument
conflictive and not very consensual to act or address to the Fallen in Pamplona and the great Mausoleum
these issues in spaces, monuments or buildings of the Valley of Cuelgamuros -or the Fallen-. The
resulting from barbarism, anti-democracy and first was built in the 1950s by the Franco government
the concealment of the reality of history. A reality to bury the leaders of the military uprising, Generals
that hides and harbours the discomfort of violence Mola and Sanjurjo, along with other “heroes and
between neighbours and families. A history that requetés (Carlist militiaman) from Navarra killed
removes injustices from a tense and vengeful society, during the holy national crusade” (following Franco’s
where it was easier killing than surviving. It is not language). The second was designed by the dictator
easy to act in such circumstances; however, time, himself to also house the remains of the “Fallen for
justice, consolidated democracy and political decision God and Spain”, and ended up burying the same
must exercise the right to recover the past for the dictator, along with the founder of the Spanish
sake of democracy, the present and the future one. Falange, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera.
For this reason, as experts and a “transnational
think-tank” in Spain, the European Observatory on
Proposing a democratic campaign on these
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