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What is Dia de Sant Jordi? How the Catalunya region in Spain will celebrate its patron saint this week – from traditional gifts to street parties

DIA de Sant Jordi – or St George’s Day – will see some of Barcelona’s most famous streets packed with bookstores and florists this Tuesday

22 Apr, 2024 @ 11:54

Barcelona·Catalunya·La Cultura·Lead

How are St George’s, Shakespeare and World Book Day all linked?

FOR Spain and England, April 23 is one for the diaries. It marks the celebration of St George’s day, the death of both countries’ most

23 Apr, 2023 @ 17:45

Catalunya·La Cultura·Olive Press Travel·Other News·Travel: Catalunya

What you should know about Miguel de Cervantes, Spain’s greatest literary genius, who died on this day in 1616

As Spain prepares to honour its most famous author who died 400 years ago this month, Tom Powell wonders what life was really like for

22 Apr, 2022 @ 14:45

La Cultura·Lead

Antonio Banderas no le teme a la vejez e

Antonio Banderas back in Malaga to celebrate Malaga Film Festival

The week-long event celebrates the best Spanish and Latin American films of the last year and attracts Hispanic actors and filmmakers from all over the

29 Mar, 2017 @ 14:09

La Cultura·Malaga

Curtains go up on spectacular Malaga theatre festival

Cutting edge and successful new Spanish language plays are now being performed throughout the city as part of the El Festival de Teatro de Malaga

18 Jan, 2017 @ 15:00

La Cultura·Lead·Malaga

First dedicated Spanish theatre opens in London

The new Cervantes Theatre, based at Old Union Arches in Southwark, proves that all the world’s a stage, just as Shakespeare wrote

20 Nov, 2016 @ 13:00

La Cultura·Lead·National News

Cervantes theatre in Tangier to be turned into cultural museum

The theatre will be used as a cultural centre

23 Jun, 2016 @ 14:49

La Cultura

Miguel de Cervantes’ journeyed around Andalucia collecting taxes

New research has tracked the 16th century author’s voyage of Andalucia

4 Jun, 2016 @ 10:08

La Cultura·Lead

Was Spain’s most famous writer Miguel de Cervantes English?

New documents suggest Miguel de Cervantes was from English heritage - making him the most famous expat of us all

4 May, 2016 @ 13:38

La Cultura·Lead

Vélez-Malaga town hall red-faced after Cervantes street art washes off

The writing’s on the road

20 Mar, 2016 @ 18:20

Lead·Malaga

British Council to celebrate 400th anniversary of Shakespeare and Cervantes’ deaths

The British Council is setting up 40 events in Spain to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the literary giants’ death

10 Feb, 2016 @ 16:30

Education

Experts unearth Cervantes’ tomb

Four centuries after his death, experts believe they have finally unearthed the remains of the iconic Miguel de Cervantes

17 Mar, 2015 @ 14:40

La Cultura·Lead

UPDATE: Coffin marked with Cervantes’ initials found in hunt for author’s remains

Archaeologists have unearthed the casket in an unmarked grave in Madrid

26 Jan, 2015 @ 13:08

La Cultura

Final stage in the hunt for author Cervantes begins in Madrid

More than 20 forensic experts are extracting bones from three unmarked graves

26 Jan, 2015 @ 12:24

La Cultura

Star-studded Sevilla dance group brings Carmen with a flamenco twist to Andalucia

The show will hit Malaga before jetting off to Asia and South America

17 Nov, 2014 @ 11:00

Sevilla

Brit Jack O’Connell cast as new Don Quixote

Director Terry Gilliam has turned to 300 star Jack O'Connell in his latest bid to recreate the legend of Don Quixote

14 Nov, 2014 @ 10:00

Celebrity

Hunt for Cervantes turns up four sets of bones

The bones will now been analysed in a new phase in the investigation

10 Jun, 2014 @ 13:59

Lead·National News

Excavations underway in search for Cervante’s remains

The burial site of Cervantes has long been a mystery, but that could all be about to change

28 Apr, 2014 @ 14:27

National News

Scientists begin the hunt for Cervantes in Madrid

Hunt for the Don Quixote author's body gets the go-ahead at the Las Trinitarias convent

6 Mar, 2014 @ 14:21

La Cultura