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Renfe launches new high-speed rail route in Spain connecting Madrid with Alicante and Murcia

Renfe sale: High-speed train tickets across Spain and beyond from just €7

SPANISH national rail service Renfe has kicked off the year with a promotion offering reduced fares to destinations throughout Spain and France. Renfe’s high-speed Avlo trains have the cheapest prices with fares

11 Jan, 2024 @ 14:42

Barcelona·Lead·Madrid·Malaga·Montpellier·Olive Press Travel·Valencia

Revealed: The most popular cities in Spain for British digital nomads

BRITISH digital nomads rate Spain, and especially the Valencian Community, as their favourite country for remote working. A study of 400 UK professionals carried out by global payments platform Nebeus saw 23%

9 Jan, 2024 @ 18:00

Alicante·Barcelona·Costa Blanca·Lead·National News·Valencia·Valencian Community

Police in Spain’s Barcelona suspect man found dead with children killed them with gas before committing suicide

THE REGIONAL police in Catalonia believe that a man who was found dead along with his two children in his Barcelona apartment on Monday may have killed them on purpose with gas

9 Jan, 2024 @ 17:17

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Price of cocaine falls by almost a HALF in Spain: Why the drug is cheaper despite ‘record’ seizures by police

THE tidal wave of cocaine engulfing Europe has seen its price nearly halve in Spain due to overproduction in Latin American countries. An enormous surge in cocaine shipments through ports like Valencia,

8 Jan, 2024 @ 12:04

Algeciras·Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia

Dani Alves’ mother doxes his alleged rape victim online in an extraordinary attack: Young woman is due to testify against the football star in Spain next month

THE mother of ex-Barcelona football star Dani Alves, awaiting trial next month on rape charges, may have landed him in further hot water after she posted a video montage of his alleged

4 Jan, 2024 @ 18:00

Barcelona·Football·Lead

Homebuyer alert: Price of housing in Malaga city rises 7.2% to €3,000/m2, a third higher than Spain’s Andalucia

THE price of housing went up a stunning 7.2% in the city of Malaga in 2023 to more than €3,000 per square metre, one of the steepest rises in Spain, a study

3 Jan, 2024 @ 09:27

Andalucia·Barcelona·Catalunya·Malaga·Property

Barcelona landlord who was caught advertising 14 unlicensed holiday flats is fined €420,000

A BARCELONA property owner has been given a record fine for renting out unlicensed tourist apartments ‘for years’ in the Old City area. The man has been hit with a €420,000 penalty

2 Jan, 2024 @ 16:45

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead·Property

City council is hacked in major British expat hotspot in Spain: Cyber criminals are demanding a €10million ransom while the government is forced to suspend ALL administrative deadlines

Cyber criminals swindle victim out of €237k over property purchase on Spain’s Costa Blanca

THE GUARDIA CIVIL have arrested 16 people for defrauding a woman out of €237,622 by intercepting and altering emails to trick her during a Costa Blanca property purchase. Investigations started in March

29 Dec, 2023 @ 12:45

Barcelona·Catalunya·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencian Community

Kidnapped Man Forced To Hide Drugs In His Genital Area From Spain S Murcia Region To Valencian Community

Brazilian kidnap gang snatch elderly man in Portugal and leave him tied to a tree in Barcelona robbed of €100,000: Arrests made in Torremolinos

A WEALTHY Portuguese businessman was kidnapped from his home and driven on a harrowing 1,200km journey across Spain before being left tied to a tree in Barcelona. A local police patrol found

28 Dec, 2023 @ 16:00

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead·Malaga

Dani Alves’s sexual assault trial date is confirmed: Footballer is accused of attacking young woman in Spain’s Barcelona

THE TRIAL of former Barcelona footballer Dani Alves on sex assault charges will begin on February 5. Alves is accused of assaulting a 23-year-old woman in Barcelona’s Sutton nightclub in December 2022.

20 Dec, 2023 @ 15:45

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

This centuries’ old Christmas market in Spain is among the best in EUROPE this year – according to Elle magazine

ELLE magazine has named this Christmas market in Spain among the best in Europe. The ‘mercado’ is the oldest in the country, with over 200 years of history dating back to 1786.

20 Dec, 2023 @ 12:23

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead·Olive Press Travel

Three young jihadists planning to detonate a ‘mother of Satan’ bomb in Spain are arrested

THREE ‘highly radicalised’ teenagers have been arrested in Madrid and Barcelona over plans to make a massive bomb. The suspects, aged between 14 and 18 years, were found to be in the

20 Dec, 2023 @ 12:15

Barcelona·Lead·Madrid

Police in Spain’s Barcelona seek thieves who stole watch worth €500,000 from tourist

POLICE in Barcelona are seeking a pair of thieves who made off with a watch worth €500,000 on Friday. One of the duo ripped the expensive timepiece off the wrist of a

14 Dec, 2023 @ 13:09

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead

Young squatter in Spain faces losing her ARM after sticking it in a barrel of cement to avoid being kicked out during huge police raid on ‘okupa’ building

A FEMALE squatter could lose her arm after putting it into a barrel of cement during a police raid in Catalunya. Mossos d’Esquadra officers entered the Lakasa Estudinou building in Santa Coloma

1 Dec, 2023 @ 19:15

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

World’s first museum of ‘forbidden’ art opens in Spain – and it’s not for the faint-hearted

A PAINTING of the Virgin Mary masturbating and a model of Spanish dictator General Franco in a fridge are just a couple of the bizarre pieces on display at the Barcelona Museum

24 Nov, 2023 @ 13:33

Barcelona·Catalunya·La Cultura·Lead

James Rhodes and Blanca evicted from Barcelona apartment

Outrage as woman, 78, faces being kicked out of her home in Spain ‘over an €88 debt’: Landlord refuses offer from Brit pianist James Rhodes to pay her rent for two years

BRITISH pianist James Rhodes has offered to pay an elderly woman’s rent for two years after an €88 debt left her at risk of homelessness. The 78-year-old woman, Blanca, has lived in

23 Nov, 2023 @ 12:09

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead

These 3 cities in Spain are among the best in the WORLD to live in, according to Forbes

SPAIN is the country to be in for a high standard of city living and quality of lifestyle, according to InterNations—the largest global community for people who live and work abroad. InterNations

20 Nov, 2023 @ 15:45

Andalucia·Barcelona·Lead·Madrid·Malaga·Olive Press Travel·Valencia

WATCH: Moment young tourist is placed in a chokehold and robbed while streaming live in Spain’s Barcelona

THIS is the moment a young tourist was attacked while streaming live in Barcelona at the weekend. Video footage shared online shows a Japanese man recording himself while walking through the streets

20 Nov, 2023 @ 15:28

Barcelona·Lead

Shakira reaches a deal with prosecutors in Spain on the first day of her €14.5million tax fraud trial

POP STAR Shakira has cut a deal with prosecutors at the start of day one of her tax fraud trial in Barcelona on Monday. The singer, 46, told the presiding judge that

20 Nov, 2023 @ 11:19

Barcelona·Celebrity·Crime & Law·Entertainment·Lead

EXCLUSIVE: Australian couple call in police after paying a popular dog breeder in Spain €24,000 for American Bully puppies which never arrived

AN Australian couple have called in police after splashing €24,000 on a trio of Spanish pedigree dogs that were never delivered. Melissa and Jamie Tucker, both 45, paid a popular Spanish breeder

20 Nov, 2023 @ 11:10

Barcelona·EXCLUSIVE·Lead

Pret A Manger lands in Spain! Coffee shop chain loved in Britain to open 70 stores across the Iberian Peninsula

THE BRITISH sandwich and organic coffee retailer Pret A Manger is to open its first Spanish outlet at Barcelona Airport. Pret- founded more than 30 years ago in London- is being backed

17 Nov, 2023 @ 14:15

Barcelona·Food & Drink·Lead·National News

Stunning photo of Mallorca taken from Barcelona defies science – just how did the photographer do it?

AN INCREDIBLE photo of Mallorca taken from Barcelona a full 200km distant has wowed viewers and delivered a rare lesson in atmospheric refraction. Catalan photographer Alfons Puertas captured the ghostly silhouette of

15 Nov, 2023 @ 15:15

Balearic Islands·Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead·Mallorca

New ‘luxurious’ high-speed train between Spain and Paris is expected to launch in 2024 – just in time for the Olympics

A LUXURY high-speed train has been announced between a popular Spanish tourist spot and Paris just in time for the 2024 Olympics. An Italian company has revealed plans to connect the two

15 Nov, 2023 @ 13:30

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead·Olive Press Travel

Former Barcelona footballer Dani Alves to stand trial in Spain on nightclub sex assault charges

THE FORMER Barcelona and Brazil footballer Dani Alves will face trial on charges of sexual assault of a woman in a Barcelona nightclub last December, a court said this Tuesday. Alves was

14 Nov, 2023 @ 18:15

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

Doctors in Spain perform the world’s first EVER ‘perfect’ reconstruction of the abdominal wall

A TEAM at Barcelona’s Sant Pau Hospital has performed the first ‘perfect’ reconstruction of the abdominal wall, so that it recovers all its functionality. The procedure is the best reconstructive option in

8 Nov, 2023 @ 17:04

Barcelona·Catalunya·Health·Lead

WATCH: Two pickpockets attack ‘foreign tourist’ in Spain’s Barcelona as people walk by and do nothing to help

THIS is the shocking moment a tourist was attacked by two pickpockets in the centre of Barcelona at the weekend. In video footage shared online, two men can be seen grappling with

6 Nov, 2023 @ 14:45

Barcelona·Lead

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