14 Things To Do in La Coruña, Spain
La Coruna, the home of legends such as Pablo Picasso and Hercules, is a beautiful historic city located on the Atlantic shore of Spain, in the region of Galicia. The legend says that Hercules himself founded the city in memory of a woman he fell in love with, named Curnia.
La Coruna offers a wide range of historic sites, activities, restaurants, attractions, and beaches.
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1. The Tower of Hercules (00:52)
The Tower of Hercules in La Coruna, Spain is the oldest Roman lighthouse in use today. Legend says the tower was built on the body of a Giant Hercules defeated after a battle that lasted 3 days. The Tower, built on a 57 meter high rock, rises a further 55 metres, and overlooks a beautiful view of the Atlantic ocean and the Galician mountains.
2. Palacio De La Opera (02:38)
Enjoy performance arts such as ballets, operas, modern dance, and theater.
3. Plaza Maria Pita (03:35)
The main square of La Coruna in front of the tower hall, with great restaurant and a story of a heroin.
4. RC Deportivo Soccer Team (05:35)
Watch a European soccer game of Deportivo La Coruna, a soccer team with a soul.
5. La Coruna Old Town (07:07)
Dated back the 6th century, the old town is the place to drink, eat, shop, roam around, and soak in Spanish architecture and culture.
6. Plaza del Humor (08:37)
A funny plaza where locals hang out and meet for drinks.
7. La Coruna Port (09:07)
Beautiful promenade to walk around and the stop over for the cruise ships.
8. Castle de San Anton (10:17)
The San Antón castle is a beautiful island fortress located at the entrance of the port. This castle was a means of defense which the people of Coruna heavily relied on. Throughout its history, the Castle has been a fortress, a governor's residence and a prison. Today it accommodates the archeological and history museum as well as a remarkable collection of silverware.
9. Termaria Casa del Agua (11:43)
Termaria Casa del Agua is a temple of relaxation. Varying temperature Salt pools., jacuzzis, saunas, steam rooms, sun decks, infrared red relaxation rooms. This is the perfect place to de-stress, relax, and charge up your batteries. Occasionally they will even throw parties.
10. Caracola Moncho Amigo (12:20)
A beautiful Conch like statue located in Punta Hermida park. Walking distance from the Tower of Hercules, this Conch statue is designed to make the Atlantic wind blow through the horn. Take a romantic stroll at the park, enjoy the Atlantic breeze, and take some cool photos.
11. Iglesia de San Jorge (13:57)
San Jorge Church is a sinister looking old church located in Plaza Marqués de San Martín . The cruceiro in the courtyard in front of the church is carved in a medieval style and is surrounded by 4 smaller pillars. Great location to take photos, especially at night.
12. Orzan Beach and Monte de San Pedro (14:57)
I highly recommend to take a hike or enjoy a leisurely walk on the beautiful sea-side promenades of La Coruna. A nice 8km hike starts with Caracola Monch Amigo conch statue. Walk through Hermida Park, Orzan Beach, Praia do Matadoiro (which translates to Slaughterhouse beach”), Explanada de Las Esclavas, the giant Obelisco Millenium statue, The octopus statue, and my favorite, “Window to the Atlantic” (
If you still have time and you are not fatigue, you can visit the San Pedro Mountain Park.
13. Santiago de Compostela (17:10)
Located one hour drive from La Coruna, Santiago de Compostela is the capital of Galicia and the final destination of the 1000km+ hike of the well-knows Camino de Santiago trail.
14. Hot Springs in Ourense/Orense (19:36)
Located on a volcano an hour away from La Coruna, Ourense is known for its hot springs. Great to relax. The one I visited is 30 minutes from the city.
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Top10 Recommended Hotels in Playa de Riazor , A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Top10 Recommended Hotels in Playa de Riazor, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
1. Hotel Blue Coruña ****
2. Hotel Riazor ***
3. Zenit Coruña ****
4. Hesperia Coruña ****
5. Hotel Lois **
6. Hotel Cristal 2 **
7. Hotel Coruña Mar *
8. Pensión Santa Clara *
9. Hotel Nido *
10. Hostal Roma **
Address:
1. Juana de Vega, 7, 15004 A Coruña, Spain
Hotel Blue Coruña is located in the heart of A Coruña, 3 minutes’ walk from Picasso Museum and Lugo Square. Riazor and Orzán
beaches, the seafront promenade and the Aquarium are 400 metres away.
2. Avenida Barrié de la Maza, 29, 15004 A Coruña, Spain
Hotel Riazor is located on the seafront, next to Coruña’s Riazor Beach and 5 minutes’ walk from Deportivo La Coruña’s Riazor
Stadium. The rooms have free Wi-Fi and satellite TV.
3. Comandante Fontanes, 19, 15003 A Coruña, Spain
Zenit Coruña is just 50 metres from Riazor Beach, in A Coruña’s business district. It offers a 24-hour reception and modern,
air-conditioned rooms with free Wi-Fi and satellite TV.
4. Juan Flórez, 16, 15004 A Coruña, Spain
Set 2 blocks from the seafront, the Hesperia Coruña is set in a modern, city centre building. It features air-conditioned
rooms with free WiFi, 100 metres from Plaza de Lugo Market.
5. Estrella, 40, 15003 A Coruña, Spain
Lois guest house is centrally located in A Coruña, within 5 minutes’ walk of Riazor Beach, PALEXCO Convention Centre and
Cantones Village Shopping Centre.
6. Avenida San Roque de Afuera, s/n, 15011 A Coruña, Spain
Hotel Cristal 2 is located on the seafront in A Coruña, 100 metres from Riazor Beach. It offers free Wi-Fi, TV and views of
the iconic Torre de Hércules.
7. Paseo de Ronda, 50, 15011 A Coruña, Spain
Located opposite the beach in A Coruña, Hotel Coruña Mar offers free bikes, a terrace, a library, a bar and free WiFi
throughout. Riazor Stadium is 150 metres away.
8. Arquitecto Rey Pedreira, 19, 15011 A Coruña, Spain
A 5-minute walk from A Coruña’s Riazor and Orzan beaches, Pension Santa Clara features rooms with free WiFi and private
bathrooms. It serves a continental breakfast in its café-bar.
9. San Andres, 146, 15003 A Coruña, Spain
Hotel Nido is set in the centre of A Coruña, approximately 50 metres from Riazor Beach. This hotel has rooms with private
bathrooms and free Wi-Fi access
10. Rua Nueva, 3 5º, 15003 A Coruña, Spain
Centrally located, midway between A Coruña’s Port and the beach, Hostal Roma is within 5 minutes’ walk of both. This
family-friendly guest house offers free WiFi.
Cruise liners and Picasso boost Malaga's tourism
(17 Jul 2011)
Malaga, Spain - May 12, 2011
1. Various of cruise liners moored in Malaga's port
2. Wide of cruise liners in port and pan to cruise tourists walking in to Malaga city past an old sailing ship
3. Various of tourists walking passed old sailing ship with modern cruise liner in the background
Malaga, Spain - May 5, 2011
4. Wide of Augustin Lomena, Head of Tourism Communication for the Western Costa Del Sol talking on his mobile phone in a pavement cafe
5. Close of menu board outside the cafe
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Augustin Lomena, Head of Tourism Communication for the Western Costa Del Sol
The most important aspect of the port of Malaga today is that a critical mass of cruisers use it either as a starting out point or as the end point of a cruise. This means that a cruise ship's passengers will come a few days early to Malaga or will stay on for a while at the end of the cruise. In either case they'll be spending extra time here.
7. Various of Picasso prints for sale in a shop near the Museo Picasso Malaga
8. Various of tourists outside the Museo Picasso Malaga
9. Jose Lebrero Stals, Director, Museo Picasso Malaga walking past a large fig tree near his office in the Museo Picasso Malaga
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jose Lebrero Stals, director, Museo Picasso Malaga
Considering that last year 350,000 people came to this museum in a town who is not a big, big town, we consider that the influence of the existence of this museum in tourism is relevant.
Malaga, Spain - August 30, 2010
11. Various of bronze statue of Picasso in the Plaza La Merced with tourists posing with the statue
Malaga, Spain - May 6, 2011
12. Various of tourists inside the Instituto Picasso (the birthplace of Picasso) looking at the Picasso prints in a special lithograph exhibition
13. Various of a ceramic dish designed by Picasso in the Instituto Picasso
Malaga, Spain - May 5, 2011
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jose Lebrero Stals, director, Museo Picasso Malaga
You can visit different museums walking - you don't need a car to move from here to there. I think if we can work more together if we are able to articulate what is not always easy, a better offer together, the opportunity is very high.
Malaga, Spain - May 6, 2011
15. Various of the outside of Museo Carmen Thyssen
16. Various of visitors looking at 19th century Spanish painting in the the galleries Museo Carmen Thyssen
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Veronica Castillo, head registrar, Museo Carmen Thyssen, Malaga:
The museums that were already here in Malaga are showing 20th Century art and contemporary art. Here we are showing 19th Century Spanish art and the later artists in our collection actually knew Picasso.
Malaga, Spain - May 12, 2011
18. Various of the exterior of Malaga Customs House showing building work to convert the place into an art gallery
Malaga, Spain - August 31, 2010
19. Various of the exterior of the Costa del Sol tourist office in Malaga
Malaga, Spain - May 5, 2011
20. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Augustin Lomena, Head of Tourism Communication for the Western Costa Del Sol
A number of factors contributed to this. For instance the enlargement of the Picasso international airport and the arrival of the high speed train AVE from Barcelona. This connects Malaga with the north of Spain and is a very convenient and rapid way of travelling. These have brought a great influx of people from Spain and from abroad.
21. Various of tourists looking at Picasso prints for sale in a shop near the Museo Picasso Malaga
Malaga, Spain - May 12, 2011
22. Various of Malaga cathedral
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Picasso. Retratos
-Museu Picasso, Barcelona: 17 de marzo – 25 de junio 2017
-National Portrait Gallery, London: 6 de octubre 2016 – 5 febrero 2017
La National Portrait Gallery de Londres y el Museo Picasso de Barcelona presentan una importante exposición en la que se explora el lugar que ocupa la caricatura en los retratos de Picasso. La exposición cuenta con pinturas, esculturas, dibujos y grabados de todos los períodos de la larga carrera del artista. La comisaria es Elizabeth Cowling, catedrática emérita de Historia del Arte en la Universidad de Edimburgo y especialista y comisaria independiente.
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Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement.
Picasso's Incredible Childhood Paintings Reveal a Different Side of the Modern Artist.
Born in the city of Málaga in the Andalusian region of Spain. He was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. His mother was of one quarter Italian descent, from the territory of Genoa. Though baptized a Catholic, Picasso would later on become an atheist.
From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. Ruiz was a traditional academic artist and instructor, who believed that proper training required disciplined copying of the masters, and drawing the human body from plaster casts and live models. His son became preoccupied with art to the detriment of his classwork.
The family moved to A Coruña in 1891, where his father became a professor at the School of Fine Arts. They stayed almost four years. On one occasion, the father found his son painting over his unfinished sketch of a pigeon. Observing the precision of his son's technique, an apocryphal story relates, Ruiz felt that the thirteen-year-old Picasso had surpassed him, and vowed to give up painting, though paintings by him exist from later years.
In 1895, Picasso was traumatized when his seven-year-old sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria. After her death, the family moved to Barcelona, where Ruiz took a position at its School of Fine Arts. Picasso thrived in the city, regarding it in times of sadness or nostalgia as his true home. Ruiz persuaded the officials at the academy to allow his son to take an entrance exam for the advanced class. This process often took students a month, but Picasso completed it in a week, and the jury admitted him, at just 13.
Picasso's father and uncle decided to send the young artist to Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, the country's foremost art school. At age 16, Picasso set off for the first time on his own, but he disliked formal instruction and stopped attending classes soon after enrollment. Madrid held many other attractions. The Prado housed paintings by Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, and Francisco Zurbarán. Picasso especially admired the works of El Greco; elements such as his elongated limbs, arresting colours, and mystical visages are echoed in Picasso's later work.
Career Before 1900
Picasso's training under his father began before 1890. His progress can be traced in the collection of early works now held by the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, which provides one of the most comprehensive records extant of any major artist's early years. During 1893 the juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away and by 1894 his career as a painter can be said to have begun. The academic realism apparent in the works of the 1890s is displayed in The First Communion, a large composition that depicts his sister, Lola. In the same year, at the age of 14, he painted Portrait of Aunt Pepa, a vigorous and dramatic portrait that Juan-Eduardo Cirlot has called without a doubt one of the greatest in the whole history of Spanish painting.
In 1897, his realism began to show a Symbolist influence, for example, in a series of landscape paintings rendered in non-naturalistic violet and green tones. What some call his Modernist period allowed. His exposure to the work of Rossetti, Steinlen, Toulouse-Lautrec and Edvard Munch, combined with his admiration for favourite old masters such as El Greco, led Picasso to a personal version of modernism in his works of this period.
Picasso made his first trip to Paris, then the art capital of Europe, in 1900. There, he met his first Parisian friend, journalist and poet Max Jacob, who helped Picasso learn the language and its literature. Soon they shared an apartment; Max slept at night while Picasso slept during the day and worked at night. These were times of severe poverty, cold, and desperation. Much of his work was burned to keep the small room warm.
During the first five months of 1901, Picasso lived in Madrid, where he and his anarchist friend Francisco de Asís Soler founded the magazine Arte Joven, which published five issues. Soler solicited articles and Picasso illustrated the journal, mostly contributing grim cartoons depicting and sympathizing with the state of the poor. The first issue was published on 31 March 1901, by which time the artist had started to sign his work Picasso; before he had signed Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
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Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon , and Guernica , a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by the German and Italian airforces. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the slightly older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a frui...
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Yoshiro began to study art in Tokyo in 1962 and became inspired by the work of Klee. In 1969 he traveled to Spain and Germany. He lived in Hamburg and Kiel until 1973 and then Moved to Norway. In 1975 he decided to settle in a small fishing village, Muxia (La Coruña) and began exhibiting his work in various cities in Galicia. In 1981 he traveled to Japan to exhibit in Tokyo (Ginza Matsuzaka-ya) and his work was chosen for the Cultral Japan Expo 84. He also became interested in and studied Mandala Buddhism and traveled to Sri Lanka to learn about early Buddhism. He also studied the primitive painting style and medieval iconography. From 1998 he began to exhibit in several cities in Spain and Japan. His style is a mixture of abstract, naif and figurative painting based on minimalism.
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Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvistwork of the slightly older artist Henri Matissemotivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.[7][8][9][10]
Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.
Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.
Early life

Pablo Picasso with his sister Lola, 1889
Picasso was baptized Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso,[1] a series of names honouring various saints and relatives.[11] Ruiz y Picasso were included for his father and mother, respectively, as per Spanish tradition. Born in the city of Málaga in the Andalusianregion of Spain, he was the first child of Don José Ruiz y Blasco (1838–1913) and María Picasso y López.[12] Though baptized a Catholic, Picasso would later become an atheist.[13]
The surname Picasso comes from Liguria, a coastal region of north-western Italy; its capital is Genoa.[14] There was a painter from the area named Matteo Picasso [fr] (1794–1879), born in Recco (Genoa), of late neoclassical style portraiture,[14] though investigations have not definitively determined his kinship with the branch of ancestors related to Pablo Picasso. The direct branch from Sori, Liguria (Genoa), can be traced back to Tommaso Picasso (1728–1813). His son Giovanni Battista, married to Isabella Musante, was Pablo's great-great-grandfather. Of this marriage was born Tommaso (Sori, 1787–Málaga, 1851). Pablo's maternal great-grandfather, Tommaso Picasso moved to Spain around 1807.[14]
Picasso's family was of middle-class background. His father was a painter who specialized in naturalistic depictions of birds and other game. For most of his life Ruiz was a professor of art at the School of Crafts and a curator of a local museum. Ruiz's ancestors were minor aristocrats.
Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. According to his mother, his first words were piz, piz, a shortening of lápiz, the Spanish word for pencil.[15] From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting. Ruiz was a traditional academic artist and instructor, who believed that proper training required disciplined copying of the masters, and drawing the human body from plaster casts and live models. His son became preoccupied with art to the detriment of his classwork.
The family moved to A Coruña in 1891, where his father became a professor at the School of Fine Arts. They stayed almost four years. On one occasion, the father found his son painting over his unfinished sketch of a pigeon. Observing the precision of his son's technique, an apocryphal story relates, Ruiz felt that the thirteen-year-old Picasso had surpassed him, and vowed to give up painting,[16] though paintings by him exist from later years.
In 1895, Picasso was traumatized when his seven-year-old sister, Conchita, died of diphtheria.[17] After her death, the family moved to Barcelona, where Ruiz took a position at its School of Fine Arts. Picasso thrived in the city, regarding it in times of sadness or nostalgia as his true home.[18]Ruiz persuaded the officials at the academy to allow his son to take an entrance exam for the advanced class. This process often took students a month, but Picasso completed it in a week, and the jury admitted him, at just 13. As a student, Picasso lacked discipline but made friendships that would affect him in later life. His father rented a small room for him close to home so he could work alone, yet he checked up on him numerous times a day, judging his drawings. The two argued frequently.
Picasso's father and uncle decided to send the young artist to Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San
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Andalusia (; Spanish: Andalucía [andaluˈθi.a]; Portuguese: Andaluzia) is an autonomous community in southern Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in the country. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a historical nationality. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville. Its capital is the city of Seville (Spanish: Sevilla).
Andalusia is located in a privileged area in the south of the Iberian peninsula, in south-western Europe, immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranean Sea; east of Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean; and north of the Mediterranean Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar. Andalusia is the only European region with both Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines. The small British overseas territory of Gibraltar shares a three-quarter-mile land border with the Andalusian province of Cádiz at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar.
The main mountain ranges of Andalusia are the Sierra Morena and the Baetic System, consisting of the Subbaetic and Penibaetic Mountains, separated by the Intrabaetic Basin. In the north, the Sierra Morena separates Andalusia from the plains of Extremadura and Castile–La Mancha on Spain's Meseta Central. To the south the geographic subregion of Upper Andalusia lies mostly within the Baetic System, while Lower Andalusia is in the Baetic Depression of the valley of the Guadalquivir.The name Andalusia is derived from the Arabic word Al-Andalus (الأندلس). The toponym al-Andalus is first attested by inscriptions on coins minted in 716 by the new Muslim government of Iberia. These coins, called dinars, were inscribed in both Latin and Arabic. The etymology of the name al-Andalus has traditionally been derived from the name of the Vandals; however, a number of proposals since the 1980s have challenged this contention. Halm in 1989 derived the name from a Gothic term, *landahlauts,
and in 2002, Bossong suggested its derivation from a pre-Roman substrate. The region's history and culture have been influenced by the native Iberians, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, Visigoths, Byzantines,
Jews, Romani, Muslim Moors and the Castilian and other Christian North Iberian nationalities who reconquered and settled the area in the latter phases of the Reconquista.
Andalusia has been a traditionally agricultural region, compared to the rest of Spain and the rest of Europe. However, the growth of the community especially in the sectors of industry and services was above average in Spain and higher than many communities in the Eurozone. The region has a rich culture and a strong identity. Many cultural phenomena that are seen internationally as distinctively Spanish are largely or entirely Andalusian in origin. These include flamenco and, to a lesser extent, bullfighting and Hispano-Moorish architectural styles, both of which are also prevalent in other regions of Spain.
Andalusia's hinterland is the hottest area of Europe, with cities like Córdoba and Seville averaging above 36 °C (97 °F) in summer high temperatures. Late evening temperatures can sometimes stay around 35 °C (95 °F) until close to midnight, with daytime highs of over 40 °C (104 °F) common. Seville also has the highest average annual temperature in mainland Spain and mainland Europe (19.2 °C), closely followed by Almería (19.1 °C).
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Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim, Norway) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design.
Elmgreen & Dragset live and work in Berlin. They are known for art work that has wit and subversive humour, and also addresses social and cultural concerns.
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Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko ˈfɾaŋko]; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who ruled over Spain as a military dictator from 1939, after the nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War, until his death in 1975. This period in Spanish history is commonly known as Francoist Spain.
During the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera 1923-1930, Franco was promoted general at age 33, the youngest in Europe. As a conservative and a monarchist, Franco opposed the abolition of the monarchy and the establishment of a democratic secular republic in 1931. With the 1936 elections, the conservative Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups lost by a narrow margin, and the leftist Popular Front came to power. Intending to overthrow the republic, Franco followed other generals in launching a coup that failed to take control of most of the country and precipitated the Spanish Civil War. With the death of the other generals, Franco quickly became his faction's only leader. Franco gained military support from various authoritarian regimes and groups, especially Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, while the Republican side was supported by Spanish communists and anarchists as well as the Soviet Union, Mexico, and the International Brigades. In 1939, Franco won the war, which claimed half a million lives. He established a military dictatorship. Franco proclaimed himself Head of State and Government under the title El caudillo. In April 1937, Franco merged the fascist and traditionalist political parties in the rebel zone (FE de las JONS and Traditionalist Communion), as well as other conservative and monarchist elements, into FET y de las JONS. At the same time he outlawed all other political parties, and thus Spain became a one-party state.
Upon his rise to power, Franco implemented policies that repressed political opponents and dissenters, as many as 400,000 of whom died through the use of forced labor and executions in the concentration camps his regime operated. During World War II, he espoused neutrality as Spain's official wartime policy. However, he provided military support to the Axis in numerous ways: he allowed German and Italian ships and submarines to use Spanish harbors and ports, the Abwehr operated in Spain, and the Blue Division fought alongside the European Axis against the Soviet Union until 1944. Although Franco's Spain is often identified as fascist, most scholars consider it as conservative and authoritarian, rather than truly fascist.Spain was isolated by the international community for nearly a decade after World War II. By the 1950s, the nature of his regime changed from being openly totalitarian and using severe repression to an authoritarian system with limited pluralism. During the Cold War, Franco was one of the world's foremost anti-Communist figures: his regime was assisted by the West, and it was asked to join NATO. After chronic economic depression in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Franco presided over the Spanish miracle, abandoning autarky and pursuing economic liberalization, delegating authority to liberal ministers.Franco died in 1975 at the age of 82. He restored the monarchy before his death, which made King Juan Carlos I his successor, who led the Spanish transition to democracy. After a referendum, a new constitution was adopted, which transformed Spain into a parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy.
Elmgreen & Dragset | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:35 1 Life and work
00:05:19 1.1 Permanent installations
00:05:39 1.2 Performative works
00:06:12 2 Recognition
00:07:24 3 Solo Exhibitions (selected)
00:15:54 4 Group Exhibitions (selected)
00:23:09 5 Collections
00:24:39 6 Commissions
00:25:20 7 Catalogues
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Michael Elmgreen (born 1961; Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969; Trondheim, Norway) have worked together as an artist duo since 1995. Their work explores the relationship between art, architecture and design.
Elmgreen & Dragset live and work in Berlin. They are known for art work that has wit and subversive humour, and also addresses social and cultural concerns.