Alfacar, Spain - A search for unmarked Spanish Civil War graves has begun in southern Spain near where the acclaimed poet Federico Garcia Lorca is believed to have been executed and buried at the start of the conflict in 1936.
Andalusia's regional government said on Wednesday work had begun to clear hundreds of forest land over a space of 300 square meters outside the village of Alfacar to bring it back to pre-war levels. Archeologists will then begin soundings to try to detect bone remains.
The project is aimed at discovering war victims' remains, not specifically those of Lorca.
Lorca, one of Spain's most renowned 20th-century poets, was among tens of thousands of civilians executed by right-wing militias and buried in unmarked mass graves during and after the 1936-1939 war. - Sapa-AP