Isabel Peralta, European correspondent of Heritage and Destiny, paid tribute to José Antonio Primo de Rivera today on the 87th anniversary of his murder.
At the San Isidro cemetery, Madrid, where José Antonio was reburied earlier this year following his removal from the Valle de los Caídos, Isabel quotes the tribute by the Falangist founder’s comrade Raimundo Fernández-Cuesta.
This compares José Antonio to legendary European heroes (two fictional, one real) – Siegfried (from the German Nibelungenlied and Wagner’s Ring); Amadis of Gaul, hero of a landmark text in Spanish literature, originally from the 14th century, and portrayed by Cervantes as the role model for Don Quixote; and Garcilaso, the great Spanish soldier-poet of the early 16th century.
