Talk:Valle de los Caídos

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"Many of these prisoners never enjoyed freedom, since there were no safety procedures, so accidents were a daily occurrence and often fatal. During the 18-year construction period 14 workers died."

- That doesn't make sense.

63.215.27.199 03:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article is lying

Quote: "Those buried in the Valley of the Fallen, however, are thousands of Nationalist soldiers; the few former Republicans buried there were added among the collection of unknown soldiers assembled from temporary graves at the end of the war."

That's not true, most of thouse buried in the Valley are actually reds...: More than 30,000 out of 50,000 are republican soldiers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.53.73.100 (talk) 15:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Edits of 9 May 2007

I made a few changes today to the last version left by User:Camelotescorial. Much of it was commas and grammar/punctuation in general. Among other things, I also:

1. Switched the Franco reference back to a simple "dictator." That's the important title; adding "general" interrupts the flow of the sentence and isn't really important in an article that isn't directly about Franco (what next? "Spanish fascist Christian caucasian dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco Bahamonde"?). Anyone who wants biographical information will click the link and will soon discover Franco's military credentials.

2. Removed the link to Basilica de la Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos. As you can see from this page's talk archives, it was decided at one point to combine the valley and basilica articles into one "Valle de los Caidos" article.

3. Removed the below text from the start of the article:

El Valle de los Caídos redirects from here to the municipalities of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, El Escorial, Madrid, Monasterio de El Escorial and La Granjilla de La Fresneda de El Escorial, Madrid

It's impossible to have more than one redirect target for one page; and in any case, it isn't true; that page doesn't redirect to any of those pages (it was a redlink when I found it; I made it a redirect to this page). I considered putting these links under a "See also" heading, but didn't see the point: there's already a link to San Lorenzo within the text, and there's a link to El Escorial within the text.

4. Changed the former "Basilica and cross"/"Basilica de la Santa Cruz (etc.)" heading to read "Basilica, abbey and cross" to more accurately reflect the section's contents. _``` _W i k i _W i s t a h _W a s s a p 21:32, 9 May 2007 (UTC)