[1] In the second half of the century, the Hispanic Monarchy and the Catholic Church managed to clear the territory from any remaining Protestant hotspot, most notably after the autos-da-fé in Valladolid (1559) and Seville (1560), from then on.
[6] During the Francoist dictatorship, religious liberties of the country's 30,000 protestants were curtailed (with the 1945 so-called Fuero de los Españoles [es] or 'Spanish Bill of Rights') all but prohibiting any public activity or announcement, with Protestants also suffering from additional legal harassments and acts of violence deployed against their meeting places.
[11] While short of introducing actual religious freedom, the law provided an image of modernization for the regime.
[13] In 2018, figures released by the national Observatory of Religious Pluralism show there were 4,238 evangelical and Pentecostal/Adventist places of worship in December 2018, a rise of 197 on the previous year.
These include: In the early 2020s, the People's Party of the Community of Madrid approached to Madrid-based milieus associated to ultra-conservative evangelical pastor Yadira Maestre, with the regional party branch likewise featuring an avowed goal of uniting "relations with the evangelical churches, around the project and the program of the PP".