Historical memory

Culture news

White House sparks fresh row over Christopher Columbus statue replica

Donald Trump has ordered a statue of Christopher Columbus to be installed in the White House, a replica of a monument toppled during protests over the killing of George Floyd, reopening the debate in the US over historical memory and the best way to mark the nation's 250th independence anniversary.

24/03/2026

Spain

Spain faces 2.3 million citizenship requests from Franco-era exiles

The Law of Democratic Memory has unleashed an avalanche of applications for Spanish nationality, with more than 1 million files already initiated and another 1.3 million pending processing. Madrid's consular network, with 178 offices worldwide, is facing collapse.

03/12/2025

Art

Say Cheese! Our favourite photos on World Photography Day

The Euronews Culture team handpicks and shares their favourite photos for World Photography Day.

19/08/2024

Culture news

Violin case and other items from Titanic to go on auction

An upcoming auction will put items from the ill-fated single voyage of the RMS Titanic under the hammer.

26/04/2024

Italy

Thousands gather to pay tribute to mudered priest Don Peppe Diana

Crowds remembering the late clergyman demanded a future without the Camorra.

20/03/2024

Germany

Increase in antisemitic vandalism at Holocaust sites in Germany

Anti-Nazi campaigners in Germany are monitoring rising antisemitic activity at Holocaust memorials.

07/03/2024

Culture news

200 year-old French love letters opened for the first time

Once forgotten in the British military archives, the 200-year-old love letters finally saw the light of day, thanks to a Cambridge University professor.

07/11/2023

Culture news

Forgotten spaces: The hidden green oases of Naples

In a city that suffers from a chronic lack of green areas, some are turning to old forgotten spaces to give people a breath of fresh air.

08/08/2023

World News

Hundreds march through Yerevan in honour of 108-year anniversary of 1915 massacres

Hundreds of people carrying lit torches marched through Yerevan on the eve of April 24, a day that marks the anniversary of the 1915 massacres.

24/04/2023

Hungary

Budapest remembers victims of the Holocaust in 'March of the Living'

Thousands took to the streets in Hungary's capital, including survivors and Righteous Among Nations award-winners, to pay tribute to Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust.

17/04/2023

World News

Controversy as Latvia tears down Soviet-era monuments

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Latvia has adopted laws to dismantle Soviet monuments but some argue this is erasing history.

10/11/2022

Ukraine

Ukraine’s historic monuments conserved using cutting-edge technology

Cultural experts are working to conserve the memory of Ukraine’s historic buildings using 3D scans. More than 100 have been hit by shelling during the past 3 months of the war.

31/05/2022

Culture news

How Yellow Candles contextualise Holocaust Remembrance Day

Every year, thousands of Jews light a yellow candle in observation of Yom HaShoah. The name card that comes with each candle offers a snapshot into a life tragically taken away in the Holocaust.

28/04/2022

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Artist Josephine Baker honoured at France's Pantheon

The voice of Josephine Baker resonated on Tuesday through streets of Paris' famed Left Bank as recordings from her extraordinary career kicked off an elaborate ceremony at the domed Pantheon monument, where she was symbolically inducted

30/11/2021

World News

VE Day commemorated across Europe

France, Poland, the Czech Republic and other countries have marked the day, 76 years ago, which represent the victory of allied forces against the Nazis.

08/05/2021

World News

What Nazi family albums and propaganda images tell us today

A selection of archive photographs shows the suffering of Jewish victims at the hands of their Nazi persecutors during the Holocaust in WWII.

27/01/2021