76 Civil War communal graves found in Malaga province | Costa del Sol |

Euro Weekly News | 76 Civil War communal graves found in Malaga province | Costa del Sol |  "communal grave at the San Rafael cemetery in Malaga is considered to be the largest in Spain, with 4,461 bodies believed to have been dumped there during and after the Civil War. After seven years of work, the Junta de Andalucia has presented a map which shows the existence of 76 communal graves in more than 50 towns throughout the province.

The grim prediction is that there are 7,471 victims of the Civil War buried in them.

Alora, Casares, Jimera de Libar, Valle de Abdalajis and Villanueva del Rosario have three graves each, and there are two in Almogia, Alfarnatejo, Estepona, Fuengirola, Marbella and Torremolinos.

The work carried out by the Association for Historical Memory in Malaga has identified 2,800 of the 4,461 victims who were executed between 1937 and 1954 and whose remains are at the San Rafael Cemetery.

Throughout Andalucia, 614 graves sites have been found in 359 towns, and the estimated number of victims is 47,399, of which half have been identified."

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