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Compulsory siesta introduced in a Valencia town

Tradition is enforced as Ador mayor mandates three hour siesta

A not so Trivial Pursuit

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Powell traces the expat barman who was the only person to see any potential in ‘hippy’ board game Trivial Pursuit…

Estepona set for weekend of carnival celebrations

Estepona is in for a weekend of fun and festivities with the carnival coming to town

Raising centuries-old ships can reveal a treasure trove of information about our buried past

AN operation to raise a 250-year-old British ship from the waters around Uruguay is set to begin on February 10.  As the Olive Press reported...

Five of the most important contemporary Spanish artists

Everyone has heard of Picasso, Dali, Goya and Velazquez. Their paintings are among the most celebrated in the world of art, fetching millions at...

Millionaire art collector Carmen Thyssen claims Malaga collection is safe

Despite her financial problems, Carmen Thyssen has insisted that her collection will not be sold

Chasing corruption: Tracking Spain’s nine biggest corruption cases in 2018

In 2017, Spain claimed 41st position in the global rankings of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), sharing the slot with Brunei and Costa Rica with a total corruption cost of €203 billion.

British historian Julius Ruiz addresses Republican Spanish civil war atrocity

British writer exposes Spanish Civil war ‘slaughter’

Pokemon Go app finally arrives in Spain

It now has more active daily users than Twitter

Spain’s Valencia gears up for ‘Battle of the Flowers’ where using a racket is certainly not for tennis

OVER A MILLION locally-grown carnations will feature in one of Valencia's brightest coloured events on July 30- the traditional 'Battle of the Flowers'. 40 floats...

Over 100 people apply to run a bar in one of the least populated towns in Spain

Andalucia’s second smallest village received over 100 applicants to open the only bar in the town. This followed the Council’s call for hopeful entrepreneurs...

PICTURED: Grisly fate of Pamplona bulls during Spain’s famous San Fermin festival

THE grisly fate of the bulls at this year’s San Fermin festival in Pamplona have been revealed. Each day of the iconic fiesta sees the...

World-famous classical musicians to perform at the Festival de Musica Barroca

Three nights of baroque concerts in Zahara de los Atunes

Man from Valencia wins €25,000 from Warner Bros after film giants framed him as mafia member in The Accountant

A Spanish judge has ordered Warner Bros to pay a Valencian businessman €25,000 in damages. But this was small change compared to the man’s original...

Bars and restaurants remove glazed serviettes from tables across Spain to avoid COVID-19 contagion – but were they ever...

AS more than 70% of the Spanish population have entered 'phase 2' of Spain's coronavirus lockdown, Olive Press readers may have noticed the lack...

Audrey Hepburn’s son threw ‘illegal’ wedding at Granada’s Alhambra

Weddings are banned at the historic site

Mallorca celebrates a whale of a win as migration corridor becomes a protected area

THE WHALE corridor in the Mediterranean, which runs just North of Mallorca, has been declared a Protected Marine Area. The government approved a Royal Decree...

Dig deep: Discover some of Spain’s most important treasures – and could you find some of your own?

THE Treasure of Villena has hit world headlines after researchers claimed it is partly made with iron from outer space. This is the second biggest hoard...

Netflix drops trailer for highly-anticipated mini-series ‘El Caso Asunta’: Viewers are left with ‘goosebumps’ over re-telling of historic murder...

VIEWERS have been left with goosebumps after Netflix drops the trailer for highly-anticipated mini-series ‘El Caso Asunta’ (The Asunta Case), a retelling of a...

HOLY MOLY: No rain and highs of 28C during Semana Santa on Spain’s Costa del Sol next week

From Sunday temperatures in the capital and along the coast will see the mercury rise to 25C and above

Campaigners in Cadiz town fight to block return of bullfighting after 12-year hiatus

Campaigners want Rota Mayor Jose Javier Ruiz Arana to ban the event

A 1.2 million Picasso on sale at the first Mayoral gallery exhibition in Spain’s Madrid

THE first exposition from the Mayoral gallery in Madrid, ‘Zóbel and great postwar artists’, inaugurated this Thursday, March 11. The display runs until March 21...

Spain vows to send more police officers to combat ‘narcos state’ in Cadiz

Extra police have been drafted in to help ease the strain on existing forces who are struggling to keep up with the drug traffickers.

CASA AMOR: Brace yourselves for a Spanish version of Love Island

LOVE Island, the seismically popular dating reality TV show, has been filmed for the last six seasons in Mallorca.  But only now have ITV execs...

Pop-up art exhibition comes to Granada

Light and optical illusionists are bringing an art exhibition to Lanjaron, Granada

Popular Gibtalks event in February will feature ‘anecdotal, personal and light-hearted’ Gibraltar stories

THE annual eagerly awaited Gibtalks – based on the TED talks – will take place on February 3 at the John Mackintosh Hall with...

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