ABSTRACT
The monuments to the fallen raised in every corner of Spain would stand watch over society as the years passed by. They would see the arrival of new generations, and social phenomena such as emigration and the beginnings of consumer society. But throughout all of this, they never stopped interacting with the communities in which they were built. The aesthetic they adopted was quite deliberate, as we shall see in the present chapter. They were imbued with a political message that emphasised the existence of a unique and true Spain, which had been saved and reborn in the civil war through the sacrifice of its sons. It was a Spain identified with Catholicism and the traditional order that would always be at the defence of Francoism.
