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Let’s cheer for Cordoba
Cordoba makes the last six in the race to be European Capital of Culture 2016
What a cultured bunch!
Next week a shortlist will be drawn up to decide on which Spanish city will become Europe’s City of Culture in 2016. Nicola Cowell takes a look at what is on offer
A riot of coloured umbrellas
Dozens of giant coloured umbrellas have been installed in Cordoba
Riddle as body of missing five-year-old found in Spain
German boy found after huge police operation scoured the mountainous area of north Cordoba
Arterton Bonds with Italian at Andalucia wedding
Bond girl Gemma Arteton ties the knot at sun-soaked Spanish ceremony
The artists’ way in Andalucia
Fundraising gala organised by expatriates to raise money for disadvantaged youths in Iznajar
So sweet a Spanish Christmas
Forget Lapland... Andalucians all head for Rute, where even the world's sweetest tooth can be satisfied. Here, the three chocolate kings arrive in time to meet marzipan Jesus
The Best of Andalucia
Two exciting new exhibitions are showing off the glorious history of the region, Moorish porcelain in Cordoba and the priceless Phoenician Treasure of Carambolo in Sevilla
Fears for Andalucia olive trade
Growers are getting 40 cents lower than the break even point
Gang rape horror
Girl, 12, attacked on beach, while 13-year-old assaulted by ex and five friends in Cordoba
A green corridor for lynxes
After a sharp revival over recent years, a 'green corridor' could now link the lynx populations of the Sierra Morena with Donana in the south
Energy-conscious Granada and Córdoba launch Christmas illumination crackdown
The battle against light pollution in Andalucía has taken somewhat of a seasonal turn after council authorities in Granada delayed the switching on of the annual Christmas illuminations.
Priceless war photos may come home
The remarkable story of how some of the world’s most famous war photographs have only recently emerged after a tortuous journey from Spain, via...
Sick safari hunters jailed for shooting tigers and lions
Defence claimed tiger was not an endangered species in Spain
What lies beneath
Córdoba’s Medina Azahara holds many more secrets of the first Islamic rule of Spain
Owner of illegal Medina Azahara home acquitted
Judges in Córdoba have acquitted the owner of one of the 240 illegal homes on the protected Medina Azahara site for extending the property even though it faces demolition
UNESCO affiliate demands disappearance of illegal urbanisations
A damning report from a UNESCO advisory body has demanded that the 240 illegal houses on the protected Medina Azahara site in Córdoba should “be demolished.”
The princes’ secret Spanish playground
They killed 740 partridges in one day at the Duke of Westminster’s exclusive hunting reserve
Sick safari hunters named
The group all from Madrid - David Jimenez, his wife Basilia Toledano and friend Tomas Jose de la Flor - travelled to Extremadura to shoot two tigers and a lion bought from zoos and circuses
Safari Spain – Olive Press Investigation
On the Cordoba-Extremadura border, a businessman is to be tried for charging 30,000 euros to allow hunters the chance to shoot lions, tigers and even perhaps lynxes
Army deployed to fight pollution in Spain
In the face of rising air contamination in the Andalucia city of Cordoba, 80,000 troops have been enlisted to collect atmospheric data
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