Neo-Fascist Attack in Madrid

Date: January 24, 1977 • Location: Madrid, Spain

The Spanish transition to democracy, known in Spain as la Transición or la Transición española, officially the Spanish State from 1975 to 1978 and Kingdom of Spain thereafter, was a period of modern Spanish history encompassing the regime change that moved from the Francoist dictatorship to the consolidation of a parliamentary system, in the form of constitutional monarchy under Juan Carlos I.