Our guide will take you through the revolution and the dictatorship. You will gain a better understanding of this event by learning about the oppositions between the Republican camp and the Nationalist camp led by General Francisco Franco. On the Republican side, the President of Spain was Manuel Azaña, a democratically elected Republican until the coup d'état. You will be immersed in this tragic event, one of the hardest wars in living memory. After General Franco's victory, a dictatorship began in the country that lasted almost 40 years, from 1939 to 1975.