![Spain opens door to 31 exhumations in the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum]( "Spain opens door to 31 exhumations in the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum")
Spanish authorities said on Wednesday they would endeavor to exhume some of the thousands of civil war victims in the Valley of the Fallen, weeks after the remains of dictator Francisco Franco were ferried out of the mausoleum by helicopter. The imposing state-run mausoleum near Madrid, carved into a mountain and topped by a 150-metre cross, has long served as a mass grave for nearly 34,000 Spaniards who died during the civil war unleashed by Franco from 1936-1939. A source at National Heritage, the state organization that manages the Valley of the Fallen, said they had received 31 requests for exhumations.
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