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The Best of Andalucia

November 3, 2009 | Andalucia Cordoba Lead Sevilla

Two exciting new exhibitions are showing off the glorious history of the region, Moorish porcelain in Cordoba and the priceless Phoenician Treasure of Carambolo in Sevilla

Fears for Andalucia olive trade

November 3, 2009 | Cordoba

Growers are getting 40 cents lower than the break even point

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Gang rape horror

July 24, 2009 | Andalucia Cordoba

Girl, 12, attacked on beach, while 13-year-old assaulted by ex and five friends in Cordoba

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A green corridor for lynxes

July 11, 2009 | Cordoba News Feature

After a sharp revival over recent years, a ‘green corridor’ could now link the lynx populations of the Sierra Morena with Donana in the south

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So sweet a Spanish Christmas

December 23, 2009

Forget Lapland… Andalucians all head for Rute, where even the world’s sweetest tooth can be satisfied. Here, the three chocolate kings arrive in time to meet marzipan Jesus

Priceless war photos may come home

June 2, 2008 | Cordoba National News

The remarkable story of how some of the world’s most famous war photographs have only recently emerged after a tortuous journey from Spain, via France, to Mexico and finally the US. With the Olive Press’s help they could now be coming back to Spain
THEY wanted their photographs to record the truth about a vicious war [...]


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Sick safari hunters jailed for shooting tigers and lions

January 27, 2008 | Cordoba

Estate owner Manuel Dominguez along with wealthy hunters Davíd Jimenez and José de la Flor were jailed for killing the defenceless tiger that had been bought from a zoo


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What lies beneath

December 16, 2007 | Cordoba

Córdoba’s Medina Azahara holds many more secrets of the first Islamic rule of Spain


Owner of illegal Medina Azahara home acquitted

December 16, 2007 | Cordoba

Judges in Córdoba have acquitted the owner of one of the 240 illegal homes on the protected Medina Azahara site for extending the property even though it faces demolition


UNESCO affiliate demands disappearance of illegal urbanisations

December 16, 2007 | Cordoba

A damning report from a UNESCO advisory body has demanded that the 240 illegal houses on the protected Medina Azahara site in Córdoba should “be demolished.”


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The princes’ secret Spanish playground

December 7, 2007 | Cordoba

They killed 740 partridges in one day at the Duke of Westminster’s exclusive hunting reserve


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Sick safari hunters named

October 15, 2007

The group all from Madrid – David Jimenez, his wife Basilia Toledano and friend Tomas Jose de la Flor – travelled to Extremadura to shoot two tigers and a lion bought from zoos and circuses

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Energy-conscious Granada and Córdoba launch Christmas illumination crackdown

November 30, 2008

The battle against light pollution in Andalucía has taken somewhat of a seasonal turn after council authorities in Granada delayed the switching on of the annual Christmas illuminations.

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Safari Spain – Olive Press Investigation

June 14, 2007

On the Cordoba-Extremadura border, a businessman is to be tried for charging 30,000 euros to allow hunters the chance to shoot lions, tigers and even perhaps lynxes

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Army deployed to fight pollution in Spain

April 19, 2007

In the face of rising air contamination in the Andalucia city of Cordoba, 80,000 troops have been enlisted to collect atmospheric data

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