Ferrol
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Ferrol is a city in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in Spain, located in the Rías Altas, in the vicinity of Strabo's Cape Nerium. With a population of 64,358 as of 2024
Ferrol natural harbour, the city is in the background to the right
City hall, inaugurated in 1953
The castle of San Felipe at the entrance of the harbour
Church of San Francisco, another example of Neoclassical architecture in the city
Francisco Franco
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Francisco Franco Bahamonde was a Spanish military general and the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. He had led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic dur
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…Europe. Today, the city contains several major shipbuilding yards belonging to the state-owned Navantia Group. Ferrol was the birthplace of the dictator Francisco Franco in 1892. The municipality was officially named after him as "El Ferrol del Caudillo" from September 1938 to December 1982. It was also the birthplace…
Formal portrait, c. 1960
Franco being held by his parents, on the day of his baptism on 17 December 1892
Francisco and his brother Ramón in North Africa, 1925
Franco in 1930