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The mass graves of La Pedraja

Villafranca Montes de Oca, Montes de Oca, Burgos

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The mass graves of La Pedraja

Historical milestone · Villafranca Montes de Oca, Montes de Oca, Burgos

In the hills of La Pedraja those repressed in the first months of the Civil War were buried clandestinely. Two graves exhumed in 2010 and 2011 yielded 135 bodies, of which only fifteen could be identified.

1936

Photo: KRLS (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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