RT Journal Article
T1 The politics of memory, tourism and dictatorship: revisiting Franco’s Valley of the Fallen
A1 Fuentes Vega, Alicia
AB Looking into the role tourism played in the rehabilitation of the Franco regime after the Second World War, this paper explores how tourist imaginaries of the 1950s and 1960s dealt with the dictatorship question. Beyond the simplistic view of modern tourism as an apolitical phenomenon, I suggest a more contextualised reading that inserts tourist literature into the ideological evolution of post-war Europe and addresses those discourses that contributed to a positive image of Franco’s Spain. In addition to the global narrative of economic development, which was the decisive one, I will examine the specific case of the monument known as Valley of the Fallen. I argue that the conversion of this fascist landmark into a tourist site was made possible through a heritagisation process, where its architectonic attributes as well as its physical and metaphorical connections to the palace-monastery of El Escorial were key factors.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 1755-182X
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100249
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100249
LA eng
NO Fuentes Vega, Alicia. «The Politics of Memory, Tourism and Dictatorship: Revisiting Franco’s Valley of the Fallen». Journal of Tourism History 9, n.o 1 (2 de enero de 2017): 70-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2017.1348545.
NO Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
DS Docta Complutense
RD 25 ene 2026