Up to seven ministers They have participated on Tuesday in the self -denominated meeting Interministerial Commission of the Resignification of the Cuelgamuros Valley -previously, Valley of the Fallen-. The meeting has been held at the Moncloa complex and has been chaired by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres.
In addition to Torres, the First Vice President and Minister of Finance have attended, María Jesús Montero; the third vice president and minister for ecological transition and demographic challenge, Sara Aagesen; the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Felix Bolaños; the Minister of Housing and Urban Agenda, Isabel Rodríguez; The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, and the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente.
The ministerial deployment reveals the great importance that the Pedro Sánchez government gives to the policies of its so -called “democratic memory”, in a year marked by the 50th anniversary of death by Francisco Franco. For this reason, the Executive has also designed with an agenda of acts – as conferences or exhibitions – that will be held throughout the year, and that involve different groups, such as students. In this framework, a day on the “sexual pleasure” of women during the Franco dictatorship was recently celebrated.
The government has given impulse in recent weeks to what it has called the “Resignification” of the Valley of the Fallen. The objective is to receive different proposals from all over the world to reconfigure this space, based on “reference interventions in the international context, such as the Berlin Holocaust memorial.”
30 million
The process is piloted by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, which these days has launched an international ideas contest. The government plans to spend 30 million in this remodeling, 4 million for the contest and 26 million for different reforms.
It is intended to “redefinition of perception and use” of the Cuelgamuros Valley, to turn it into a place of “meeting, reflection and dialogue.” According to housing, this process will be based on “the rigorous and scientific knowledge of the historical reality that surrounds it, without distorting it.” Moncloa puts the memorial to Berlin Holocaust as a reference.
Likewise, it is proposed that the reforms in the valley have a “plural, inclusive and contemporary look” to turn the place into an “international reference” through a “respectful and sustainable intervention.”
The Executive plans to build a museum in which, he affirms, “the political, ideological and architectural history of the monument and its significance in the history of Spain and Europe will be reflected” “, as well as “the use of lulted in its construction, and the history and characteristics of the natural and landscape environment.”
The proposal will be chosen by a “prestige” jury, and the ten best proposals will receive a prize of 60,500 euros. The finalists will have two months for the technical development of their ideas and in September the winner will be met. The Government estimates that the bidding of works takes place before it ends 2026.
The Government launched, in July last year, the so -called Interministerial Commission of the Cuelgamuros Valley to, as announced, “turn that environment into a space that foster constitutional and democratic values and in which knowledge and reflection on our past are promoted.”
