Spain's new theme park

Spain’s new theme park, now open in Toledo, omits all the nasty bits of Spanish history.  The historical drama of Spain’s colonization of the New World says nothing about the bloody conquests of the indigenous people.  Queen Isabella is heroic, but her expulsion of the Jews and Muslims is not mentioned.  The Spanish Civil War gets one minute out of the 75-minute historical production.  The 40-year dictatorship of Franco is never mentioned.  

Members of the far right Vox party love the park.  On leaving the park one member proclaimed, “The true history.”

See Constant Méheut, “Theme Park in Spain Runs On Selective History.  It’s All the Rage,” New York Times, (July 21, 2023), p,. A6.