Why is Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica called Guernica?
Guernica is the name of a small town in the way north of Spain
that was bombed by the German's, with Franco's permission (leader
of Spain) during World War II. Hitler wanted to test some new bombs
and Franco said he could try it out on this village/town. The
people had no idea - thus, Picasso's painting of the horrors of
war, and the horror of a leader who would permit that kind of
atrocity to take place in his own country.