The Basque regional government has formally asked Madrid for Pablo Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica, to be displayed in the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
The regional government wants Madrid to allow it to be moved from the capital before the 70th anniversary of the bombardment of the Basque town next year.
On 26 April 1937, bombers from the German Condor Legion bombed the town and killed more than 1,600 civilians as part of Hitler's support for General Franco's nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War.
The bombing caused international outrage and inspired Picasso to change a painting he had been working on. Guernica became an international symbol of the brutality of war.
Picasso would not allow the painting to return to Spain until Franco died in 1975.
This year is the 25th anniversary of the return of Guernica which finally arrived in 1981.
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