Sign of the times: row over street art shines light on Spain’s divisions
For the past 11 months, the two walls that make up a street corner in east Madrid have engaged in a mute but bitter debate that mirrors the faultlines, fights and ferocities of Spanish politics.
On the left wall are 24 street signs commemorating poets and writers including Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Victoria Kent and Carmen Laforet.
On the right one are 25 others honouring the likes of Francisco Franco, his coup-mongering colleague General Emilio Mola, and General José Millán-Astray, the founder of the Spanish legion best known for his and his shriek of: “Death to intelligence! Long live death!” Each wall bears a QR code that leads
