I'm with you. No matter what his flaws or limitations, Franco was trying to preserve his country from sliding into the communist morass. Mind you, I'm more of a Carlist myself!
A bunch of the Carlist members of the Spanish royal family are buried in the church of San Giusto in Trieste. I guess they wound up in that part of the world for the same reason that Charles X, the last Bourbon king of France, is buried in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, which isn't too far from Trieste. That was all part of the Habsburg empire.
As am I.
¡Viva Cristo Rey!