Friday, March 29, 2024

Costa Blanca

Divine inspiration: Discover Javea’s quirky-looking church on Spain’s Costa Blanca

IT could well be the most quirky-looking church in Spain. Sculptural Nuestra Señora de Loreto rears up over its nearby buildings like an angry spider...

Earth Hour coincides with city shopping centre becoming the most sustainable in Spain’s Valencia region

EARTH HOUR is a custom around the world where lights are switched off for 60 minutes to raise awareness of global warming and other...

Hotspot Javea: Rent to buy means saving on a minimum 20% deposit

HOUSE prices in the UK are nearly double the price of Spain. And it’s not dissimilar in Norway or Holland. But despite eye-watering prices, it’s...

Chorus Financial: Costa Blanca’s award-winning advisers can help you crisis-ready your investments

Read on for how Chorus Financial’s award-winning advisers can help you crisis-ready your investments, writes Tracy Storer

FOCUS: Javea on Spain’s Costa Blanca is the gem of the Mediterranean

Home to the most expensive streets in eastern Spain, Javea’s rugged beauty holds enough hidden jewels to share all round, writes Joshua Parfitt

Mark Petrie MBE has been running his insurance business on Spain’s Costa Blanca for nearly five decades

HE moved to Spain when he was just 11-years-old and opened his first business here in 1977. Today he counts on hundreds of loyal clients...

Liar caught out over bogus insurance claim story of violent wallet theft outside his Costa Blanca home in Spain

AN Alicante man has been arrested for reporting a bogus crime in an attempt to defraud his insurance company. The 'victim', 64, filed two complaints...

Young boy dies from smoke poisoning after apartment fire in Costa Blanca area of Spain

A five-year-old boy died from smoke poisoning after an Almoradi apartment caught fire on Thursday evening. The blaze started shortly before 9.00 pm at the...

Church welcomes over 1,000 refugees and raises €125,000 to help Ukrainians on Spain’s Costa Blanca

SINCE Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante has welcomed 213 families fleeing from war in Ukraine. Some 1,019 people, mostly women and children,...

Roaming roosters rehomed after causing chaos on N-332 bypass through Spain’s Costa Blanca

TORREVIEJA TURKEYS have caused such a nuisance with residents that the town hall has been forced to take action. Numerous complaints from people living in...

New home buyers on Spain’s Costa Blanca hit with shock news due to high raw material prices

ESCALATING raw material costs are causing some Costa Blanca builders to pause new projects as they are financially unviable. The Alicante Province Real Estate Developers...

Truckers strike could close bars and restaurants in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas, claims hospitality association

A Valencian Community hospitality association says bars and restaurants will 'close soon' due to the truckers strike, with thousands of jobs on the line. SOS...

Expats slam settlement scheme for Ukrainian looking to settle on Spain’s Costa Blanca

JAVEA expat Mourad Hamoum welcomed his Ukrainian mother-in-law for a month-long holiday in Javea in February. But just as she was preparing to return to...

SPRING FORWARD with the Olive Press

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Russians defraud vulnerable Ukrainian refugees queuing up for residency permits on Spain’s Costa Blanca

TWO Russian interpreters have been arrested in Alicante for defrauding vulnerable Ukrainian refugees. The mother and daughter were detained by the Policia Nacional who say...

IN PICS: Motorist survives horrific plunge off Benidorm area motorway on Spain’s Costa Blanca

A female motorist survived a plunge of several metres down an embankment on Thursday off the AP-7 motorway on the Costa Blanca. Her vehicle careered...

Covid-19 restrictions to end in Spain’s Costa Blanca except for indoor masks and smoking ban on outside terraces

NEARLY all Covid-19 pandemic restrictions have been removed in the Valencian Community, some two years after the coronavirus struck. Valencian president, Ximo Puig, announced on...

‘There’s nowhere quite like Javea’: Expat businesswoman Jennifer Cunningham reveals why she fell in love with the town on...

Jennifer Cunningham never planned on relocating to Spain…until she fell in love with Javea, writes Fiona Govan

A week to go….but March already wettest for 72 years in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas

DROUGHT fears expressed a few weeks ago with warnings of water-rationing have been banished by record March rainfalls in the Valencian Community. With a week...

ANALYSIS: What’s so special about the microclimate in Javea on Spain’s Costa Blanca?

IF you’ve ever browsed Javea’s official tourism website you might have come across an interesting fact.  “The climate in Javea is considered the second-best microclimate...

‘Highly specialised’ Costa Blanca and Murcia robbery gang plundered dozens of homes and shops in five provinces of Spain

FOUR members of a Costa Blanca and Murcia-based gang have been jailed over 35 robberies in five Spanish provinces. The seven-strong crew, with previous arrests...

Michelin-starred restaurant celebrate the artichoke on Spain’s Costa Blanca

ALMORADI intends to sparke this weekend, thanks to the ‘Jewel of the Vega Baja’ - the humble artichoke. Over Saturday & Sunday, March 26 &...

Police intercept drug-dealers trying to flee Benidorm’s ‘English Zone’ on Spain’s Costa Blanca

FOUR drug dealers have been arrested after trying to speed away from a police patrol car in the 'English Zone' of Benidorm. Policia Nacional officers...

School bullies kick and punch girl, 11, in toilet on Spain’s Costa Blanca and post video on social media

JUVENILE prosecutors are probing an assault on a girl, 11, by seven children from her Costa Blanca school. The attack happened on March 16 in...

Revealed: Owning these dogs could land you a fine of over €2,700 on Spain’s Costa Blanca

TWO PET owners in San Vicente del Raspeig are paying the price for going out without a necessary muzzle on their dangerous dogs. Fines of...

Convicted Dutch drug-trafficker faces extradition after Benidorm arrest in Spain

A Dutch drug-dealing fugitive has been arrested by the Policia Nacional in Benidorm. He was said to have been living in the city for 'several...

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