The international tender should include
the following elements:
1. Stop commemorating the dictator and his associates in
monuments created by them to perpetuate their own
memory. Democracy cannot honour nor commemorate
Interdisciplinary
dictators or dictatorships. Moving the two bodies to the
private world is a “sine qua non” condition.
Transnational
2. Dealing the Valley as a necropolis. Study of the issue
Phase of assessment and expert debate
involves war soldiers being buried and transferred
to the Valley, either voluntarily or by force. For this
Phase of assessment and social debate -participative-
reason, we must professionally address this issue,
identify the maximum number of remains and dignify
Performative ideas projects
the bodies and their families. This process is not
simple, but we have teams of experts on this subject
Collaboration with the CIVVC
and graves with disappeared in Spain and Europe.
Alignment with the reform of the law and with the 3. To create a Memorial Park and two Contemporary
National Action Plan for Democratic Memory on Memory Centres in Pamplona and Cuelgamuros
Francoist symbols and monuments - should there be explaining the dictatorship and National-Catholicism.
one. These places are terrifying, but hold a unique,
iconic and symbolic value. These must be places of
pedagogical memory that explain how a regime was
To be continued imposed with violence, and lasted for almost forty
Should we explain Francoism, National Catholicism more than three generations. New cultural spaces of
and dictatorship to our children? Should democracy memory always in process, modern and with some
create strategies and guarantees to not repeat it “antennas” or “sub-places” in connection. Our
again? Can Spanish society face its past and thus be democracy is capable of doing so, and citizens deserve
a fairer nation? Can we partly repair the damage and an exemplary and emblematic public democratic
trauma suffered by our ancestors? … If so, should we memory. Let’s not do it for ourselves, let’s do it for our
act on the monumental and monstrous monuments children and the memory of citizens and the capacity
of the Fallen in Spain? (Fallen of Pamplona and to transform the uses of the past into public spaces.
years and that occupied the public and private life of
the Valley of the Fallen or Valley of Cuelgamuros).
We have noted and collected some ideas and public
debates on these commemorative spaces of a
dictatorship and a dictator. We therefore propose one
or more modern, bold and professional projects to
address at a political and public level this subject and
act on it. Democracy must propose new places where
the nostalgic pilgrimage of fascism is avoided. The
present document is only an approach from different
prisms and requires a debate and more executive
working documents. For this reason our conclusion
is a “to be continued...”. Our professional position is
to act, and act soon in three phases and clear areas:
Expert’s view
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