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Visiting Madrid’s iconic Prado museum? Don’t miss these 10 standout works from Spain’s artistic greats

WITH over two and a half million visitors a year, the Prado Museum is the beating heart of Madrid’s rich cultural tradition. Renowned artists such as Goya, Velázquez and El Greco feature

17 Feb, 2024 @ 13:30

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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

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New Museum Hosting Spain's Royal Collections To Open In Madrid Next Month

New museum housing Spain’s Royal Collections to open in Madrid next month

A NEW museum in Madrid’s Royal Palace area hosting Royal Collections accumulated since the Middle Ages will open on June 28. The official opening ceremony will be conducted by King Felipe and

22 May, 2023 @ 15:45

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Five Fake Paintings By Spanish Masters Marketed For €76 Million Area Seized By Valencia Police

Five fake paintings by Spanish masters put on sale for €76 million are seized by Valencia police

FIVE fake paintings claiming to be originals from Spanish masters Goya and Velazquez have been seized by Valencian police working for the regional Historical Heritage Group. The works were being sold for

12 Apr, 2023 @ 11:15

Castellon·Crime & Law·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

The true-life Galician tragedy that inspired hit Spanish movie ‘The Beasts’

THE 2022 Spanish film As Bestas, known in English as The Beasts, is a taught, almost unbearably tense thriller. It tells the story of a French couple who move to the Galicia

31 Mar, 2023 @ 16:18

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Spain’s Malaga, Murcia and Cadiz all featured in Europe’s best free art gallery list

SPAIN is home to three of Europe’s most highly rated free art galleries, a new survey has found. The findings, published by Online learning centre The Knowledge Academy, ranked the Museo de

8 May, 2022 @ 12:00

Cadiz·La Cultura·Lead·Malaga·Murcia·National News

Actor Javier Bardem In The Press Room During The 36th Annual Goya Film Awards In Valencia On Saturday 12 February, 2022.

Javier Bardem scoops Best Actor Goya in Valencia-held ceremony

JAVIER Bardem has one the Best Actor award at the Goya gala. The 52-year-old Canary Islander picked up his seventh cabezon, his sixth as an actor, for his role in Fernando Leon

14 Feb, 2022 @ 17:00

La Cultura·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Exhibition "de Valencia A Los Goya" In Valencia, Spain 02 Feb 2022

Valencia gets ready for its first-ever Goya Awards on February 12

VALENCIA is home to some of Spain’s best-loved actors and directors. But the country’s third-largest city has never hosted a Goya Awards ceremony which celebrates the cream of Spanish cinema. Following passionate

5 Feb, 2022 @ 09:15

La Cultura·Lead·Valencia·Valencian Community

Art forgers in Valencia area of Spain tried to sell a fake Goya for €900,000

Art forgers in Spain’s Valencia tried online sale of a fake Goya painting for €900,000

POLICE have broken up a gang trying to sell forgeries of paintings by Spanish masters like Goya via the internet. The Valencian Historical Heritage police seized the works of art in the

25 Oct, 2021 @ 15:13

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LIFE AND DEATH OF FRANCISCO GOYA- Mystery, life-changing illness that robbed him of hearing has roots in Andalucia

The sexually transmitted disease has been fingered by numerous art historians as one of the most likely causes of the succession of tortuous illnesses suffered by one of Spain’s most revered painters,

16 Apr, 2021 @ 10:00

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A JOB FOR DEL BOY: Police in Spain’s Valencia seize three fake paintings by El Greco, Goya and Modigliani valued at €12.5 million

VALENCIA regional police force has seized three forged Goya, El Greco and Modigliani paintings worth €12.5 million on the black market. The Historic Heritage department of the Generalitat’s Autonomous Police confiscated the

8 Apr, 2021 @ 17:45

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Valencia·Valencian Community

Satanism, male lovers and family abandonment…the alleged lesser known side of Spain’s maestro Francisco Goya

Goya had a chequered start to his career as an artist

2 Apr, 2021 @ 12:45

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The Queen and Goya! Letizia travels to Zaragoza to celebrate 275th birthday of Spain’s most famous painter

QUEEN Letizia never puts a fashion foot wrong, and continued to show off her array of glamorous ensembles as she attended celebrations to mark 275 years since the birth of renowned Spanish

30 Mar, 2021 @ 17:45

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Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodovar among winners at the Spanish Academy Goya Awards in Malaga

DOLOR y Gloria has dominated this year’s Goya Awards in Malaga with seven awards, including Best Picture.

27 Jan, 2020 @ 15:48

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Claire Leibovich delivers a masterclass on Spain’s most astronomically-priced paintings you can’t afford

Les Femmes d´Algers (Version O) set a world record price when it was sold for US$179 million (€125 million) at Christie's New York in 2015

25 May, 2019 @ 09:00

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€30,000 of jewellery stolen from Goya film awards in Madrid

€30,000 worth of items including cufflinks, a ring and earrings from Joyeria Suarez were taken from a room in Madrid's Hotel Marriot Auditorium where the prestigious gala was held

8 Feb, 2017 @ 12:29

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Andalucians among winners of Spain’s Goya cinema awards

Juan Antonio Bayona’s A Monster Calls that swept the board at the dazzling Madrid ceremony, where it took nine of the 12 gongs it was nominated for

6 Feb, 2017 @ 14:40

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Andalucian actors nominated for prestigious Goya awards

Seven film stars are among those to have made the cut in the upcoming 31st Goya film awards, Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars

6 Jan, 2017 @ 13:00

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Spanish scriptwriter attempts to flog own Goya award at Cash Converters

Eduardo Bajo Ulloa, who is believed to have been behind the sale, wrote Butterfly Wings with his brother Juanma, and received the best original script award at the Spanish version of the

31 Dec, 2016 @ 19:00

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Truman film picks up five awards at the 30th Goyas

The Truman show

13 Feb, 2016 @ 16:00

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Goya in a new light

He’s best known for his dark subject matter but a groundbreaking new portrait exhibition shows a lighter side to the famous Spanish artist

18 Oct, 2015 @ 12:00

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Treasures from the House of Alba on display in the States

The collection includes works from by Titian, Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Ingres, Sorolla and Renoir

18 Sep, 2015 @ 15:04

Spanish brothers scammed when attempted Goya art con backfires

Incredibly they took 1.7 million Swiss francs in photocopied bills

26 Feb, 2015 @ 12:05

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Antonio Banderas and Andalucia-based films are big winners at the Goyas

The Malaga-born actor says his hometown is always on his mind

9 Feb, 2015 @ 11:13

La Cultura·Malaga·Sevilla

Art forgers ring smashed in Spain

A total of 27 faked artworks worth €1.2 million were recovered from raids in Castellon

2 Feb, 2015 @ 13:23

Crime & Law·La Cultura·National News

Oscar nominees announced… and Spain isn’t among them

The foreign-language nominee snubbed by the Academy

15 Jan, 2015 @ 16:15

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