Archaeology, grave mapping, and exhumations: the case of Castilla-La Mancha

Abstract

A large part of the victims of Franco’s repression were buried in graves located in cemeteries, isolated places and roadsides. This article aims to study the graves of the Franco regime for which we have information at the moment in the current territory of Castilla-La Mancha: it examines their location and characteristics and analyzes the situations they have gone through since the civil war and the post-war period. Thus, it is determined which have been intervened, signposted and dignified and which are still intact. This is intended to shed light on burials that the Franco regime wanted to keep silent and that numerous investigations have rescued for the History and Democratic Memory of Spain from the Transition to the present day.