Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic. His major philosophical essay was Tragic Sense of Life, and his most famous novels were Abel Sánc
Unamuno in 1925
Unamuno was often in the terrace of the Café Novelty, founded in 1905, in the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca.
Sculpture of Unamuno in Salamanca by Pablo Serrano in 1968
Balcón de Unamuno, Artenara, Spain
José Millán-Astray y Terreros was a Spanish military officer who was the founder and first commander of the Spanish Legion. He was also a major early figure of the Francoist dictatorship.
Miguel de Unamuno
…referring in the latter case to the 1921 war with Abd el-Krim in Spanish Morocco. In 1936 Unamuno had a public argument with Nationalist general Millán Astray at the university in which he denounced both Astray—with whom he had had verbal battles in the 1920s—and elements of the Nationalist faction . Shortly…
José Millán-Astray as a young officer
José Millán-Astray surrounded by the Falangist Antonio Ortiz de Estringana and the Carlist Lieutenant of the Requeté of Navarre D. Agustín Sánchez Echevarría, September 1936
Gravestone of José Millán-Astray in the Cementerio de la Almudena.