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Belchite, the open wound of Spain's civil war / 32EC6Q7
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Like many Spanish villages, Belchite was devastated by Spain's 1936-39 Civil War.
But it is the only one which looks largely as it did at the end of the conflict, with piles of rubble strewn about, the clock tower barely standing and mass graves.
"Here we found men, women and children," says Ignacio Lorenzo, a 70-year-archaeologist as he exhumes the last skeletons from a mass grave in this village in the northern region of Aragon. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES