On the 72nd anniversary of his death, and on the orders of High Court judge, Baltasar Garzón, the family of avant-garde poet and playwright, Federico García Lorca, who was executed in the cruellest fashion at the start of the Spanish Civil War by a fascist death squad, has reluctantly agreed for the mass grave where he is believed to have been buried, to be excavated.

The request was made by the descendants of a teacher, Dióscoro Galindo, and a Republican soldier, Francisco Galadí, believed to have been executed at the same time and also buried in an unmarked grave on the banks of the dried-up river bed of the Víznar river, near Granada, during the early hours of August 18th, 1936.

The photo shows Laura García Lorca, who is the poet's great niece, at the García Lorca Foundation in Madrid.