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Unlikely Basque rom-com breaks box office record

'Eight Basque Surnames' takes on the politically sensitive issue of Basque identity... and wins!

Picasso fights fines in Torremolinos

Art meets politics in a ground-breaking exhibition

Top Spanish art prize goes to US architect Frank Gehry

The Prince of Asturias Award honours Gehry’s 50-year career

School book accused of airbrushing Franco’s rule

The children's history book brushes over the real details of Spain's civil war

8th annual blues festival kicks off Friday in Mijas

A weekend of free outdoor blues concerts in Mijas

First Mijas Moorish Moon festival a huge success

More than 20,000 people descended on the pueblo in just three days

Shortlist for Spain’s Oscars announced

El Nino, 10,000 KM and Living is Easy with Eyes Closed all on the shortlist for Spain's Oscar nomination

Let battle commence: Battle of the Bands hits Estepona

Rap/ reggae group Futu Matano sweeps up at the third edition of El Intercambio's Battle of the Bands

Preparations underway for Marbella’s Mind, Body and Soul Festival

More than 50 exhibitors are set to appear to at the festival at the end of October

Sierra Nevada-based expat author wows with latest travel book

Sierra Nevada author is seeing success with his latest travel book ... could this be the next Chris Stewart

King Juan Carlos had 10-year affair with German aristocrat

A new book about the former monarch's double life has been launched

World’s first LGBT language courses on offer in Sevilla

Open to all ages, the two or four week classes are led by a gay teacher and focus on travel, socialising and Spanish culture

Thousands of protesters attend Spain’s controversial bull-spearing Toro de la Vega festival

10,000 animal rights protesters are predicted to voice their discontent at today’s controversial bull event in Valladolid

Bummer… bullfighter gets gored in backside

Matadors rushed to his aid as blood poured down his leg.

Library of women’s orgasms launched in a Spanish campaign

Women are being invited to record themselves

PRIDE OF THE NORTH: Sitges Pride just gets better and better

How Sitges offers everything and more

Eddie Izzard to perform in Spanish on Barcelona and Madrid tour dates

The British comedian has said he will add more and more Spanish into his set throughout his run in Madrid and Barcelona next month, with the aim of having an ‘almost Spanish’ set by Christmas

British student snaps up top award for Pamplona photo

Oliver Riley, 19, was runner-up in the Calumet Student Photographer of the Year 2016 competition for his shot of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona

Catholic church facing fine over neglect of ancient temple in Barbate

The diocese could be facing an administrative fine from the Ministry of Culture

Torremolinos Gay Pride smashes all records with more than 40,000 visitors

The Pride March this year beat records both in terms of floats and people

Fake news: How a lost suitcase changed photojournalism

Although the terms are contemporary, the role of journalism in ‘manufacturing opinion’ has been a human activity as far back as reliable evidence suggests, writes Jack Gaioni

Manilva to host its first ever gastronomic fair in December

MANILVA is to host its first ever gastronomic fair next month. Taste of Manilva will be held on December 8 and 9 in Plaza Vendimia.   Friday...

Costa del Sol artist giving away FREE mural in Olive Press Christmas competition

A COSTA del Sol artist is giving away a free mural in a special Olive Press Christmas competition.  Tony Faulkner, 48, from Barnsley, is a...

WATCH: Glossy video sells Marbella’s San Pedro as perfect holiday hotspot at FITUR tourism convention in Spain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD3JmMC-CkY&feature=youtu.be MARBELLA'S San Pedro de Alcantara has sold itself as the perfect family holiday in a new high-gloss video. The two-and-a-half minute clip is being presented...

Feminists demand removal of Woody Allen statue in Oviedo

The Asturias Feminist Organisation says the life-size sculpture must go because it serves ‘to honour an abuser and pervert’.

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