Pereda Pérez and Lignum’s proposal to reinterpret the Valley of Cuelgamuros is situated within a context fraught with symbolic dispute. Conceived by the Franco regime as a monumental burial place for its founder and a space to legitimize the National Catholic narrative, the complex is now an anomaly in Spain’s democratic landscape. The project proposes intervening on the site without erasing its traces, activating formerly closed spaces, such as the crypt and several pavilions, and transforming them into devices able to address the complexity of their past...[+][+]