FILE PHOTO: A Franco bust is pictured at a demonstration of supporters of former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco against his exhumation during the annual gathering held on the week of the 44th anniversary of the dictator's death, in Madrid, Spain, November 24, 2019. REUTERS/Javier Barbancho
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish court stripped General Francisco Franco's heirs of the late dictator's summer palace and ordered it to be transferred to the Spanish state, which had claimed ownership of the estate as part of a move to erase the dictatorship's legacy.
Built between 1893 and 1907, the Pazo de Meiras palace in the region of Galicia was acquired in 1938, during the civil war, using public donations.
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