Spanish Civil War

Pro-Catalonia anarchists enter Spanish embassy in Athens

Self-proclaimed anarchists burst into the Spanish embassy in Athens on Wednesday and threw leaflets in favor of Catalonian independence, an embassy official said.

The embassy staff evacuated the premises leaving only a few diplomats inside, the official said. There were no reports of damage or injuries.

Guernica, an iconic work travels from Spanish Civil War to the Aegean Sea

Pablo Picasso’s Guernica showed the suffering of the Spanish civil war in 1937. It was the artist’s response to the bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, that was bombarded by German and Italian planes at the request of Spanish Nationalists.