We were riding on a train out to Segovia when I saw this enormous white cross against the distant mountains (in the middle ground you can just make it out). I asked my sister-in-law about it. She explained that Franco had it built for his fallen men and that he was buried there. The men who built it were Franco's prisoners, some of whom died building it and many, many, injured. She also explained that as beautiful as I found it to be, many Spaniards still saw it as a fascist symbol and an ugly reminder of the cruelty of Franco. There are many pictures of the cross on the internet, but I couldn't find any that captured the sense of distant enormity as much as the one my niece took here.
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