Editing Valley of the Fallen (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Valle de los caidos.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|General view of the monument]]
The Valle de los Caídos appears in [[Richard Morgan (author)|Richard Morgan's]] 2002 novel ''[[Altered Carbon]]'', where it is being used as a base of operations for one of the major antagonists, Reileen Kawahara.<ref>{{cite book |title=Altered Carbon |title-link=Altered Carbon |last=Morgan |first=Ricahard K. |author-link=Richard K. Morgan |year=2002 |publisher=[[Del Rey Books]] |isbn=978-0-345-45768-4 |page=227}}</ref> It also appears in the 2010 Spanish dark comedy film ''[[The Last Circus]]'' (Spanish: ''Balada triste de trompeta''), as a visual homage to the climactic [[Mount Rushmore in popular culture#In North by Northwest|Mount Rushmore scene]] in the Hitchcock classic ''[[North by Northwest]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/last-circus-film-review-30071|title = The Last Circus — Film Review| website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date = 14 October 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://extracine.com/2010/12/balada-triste-de-trompeta-triste-poco|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101226094008/http://extracine.com/2010/12/balada-triste-de-trompeta-triste-poco|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 December 2010|title="Balada Triste de Trompeta", triste es poco – Extracine}}</ref>

[[Graham Greene]]'s 1982 novel ''[[Monsignor Quixote]]'' uses a visit to the Valle to illustrate the competing political and social attitudes to Franco's reign and the status of his tomb in modern Spain. There is also a large reference to this monument and the labourers who built it in [[Victoria Hislop]]'s book ''The Return''. In 2013, Spain saw the release of the film {{lang|it|All'Ombra Della Croce}} ({{langx|es|A la Sombra de la Cruz}}, "In the Shadow of the Cross") directed by the Italian filmmaker Alessandro Pugno.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/03/20/inenglish/1363784417_059873.html |title=Franco's choirboys |newspaper=[[El País]] |language=es |date=20 March 2013 |access-date=29 July 2014 |first=Elsa |last=Fernández-Santos |publisher=[[Prisa]] |location=Madrid}}</ref> The film tells the secret story of the children of the chorus who sing every day in the mass.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dw.de/worldlink-haunted-2013-05-25/e-16675170 |title=The school that Franco built |work=[[Deutsche Welle]] |date=25 May 2013 |access-date=29 July 2014 |first=Ashifa |last=Kassam |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113224321/http://www.dw.de/worldlink-haunted-2013-05-25/e-16675170 |archive-date=13 November 2014}}</ref> They live in a boarding school inside the monument and receive a traditional education.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/ficha_pelicula.asp?IdPeli=272 |title=Synopsis All'ombra della croce |work=Punto de Vista |date=17 June 2014 |access-date=29 July 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130617/http://www.puntodevistafestival.com/en/ficha_pelicula.asp?IdPeli=272 |archive-date=17 June 2013 |first1=Alessandro |last1=Pugno |first2=Oscar |last2=Alonso}}</ref> The film was awarded with the first prize for the best documentary at [[Festival de Málaga de Cine Español]].{{citation needed |date=June 2023}}

In the 2016 film ''[[The Queen of Spain]]'', actor [[Antonio Resines]] plays Blas Fontiverosa, a film director who returns to Spain after fleeing following the Civil War and is captured and forced to work on the construction of the Valley. Also in 2016, Mayor of Madrid [[Manuela Carmena]], proposed to change the site's name from "El Valle de los Caídos" to "El Valle de la Paz" (The Valley of Peace).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2016/03/31/56fd2ddb268e3e4a188b4574.html |title=Manuela Carmena propone cambiar el nombre del "Valle de los Caídos" por el "Valle de la Paz" |newspaper=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]] |language=es |date=31 March 2016 |access-date=14 June 2016 |publisher=[[Unidad Editorial]]}}</ref>

The monument's construction and significance is paralleled with that of [[El Escorial]] in [[Carlos Fuentes]]’s 1975 novel ''[[Terra Nostra (novel)|Terra Nostra]]''. The monument's name is the title of a 1978 novel<ref>{{cite book |title=El Valle de los Caídos |last=Rojas Vila |first=Carlos |author-link=Carlos Rojas Vila |year=1978 |publisher=[[Ediciones Destino]] |isbn= 8423309592}}</ref> by the Spanish author [[Carlos Rojas Vila]]. Part of the novel's plot is set in the late days of the Francoist Spain. The monument appears in [[Dan Brown]]'s 2017 novel ''[[Origin (Brown novel)|Origin]]''. The monument is referenced in [[Ruta Sepetys]]' 2019 novel ''Fountains of Silence''. The monument appears in [[Edwin Torres (judge)|Edwin Torres's]] 1975 novel ''[[Carlito's Way (novel)|Carlito's Way]]'' in a scene where the protagonist, Carlito Brigante, is setting up an [[informant]] for a [[Contract killing|hit]].