Last laugh? Spain’s newspaper cartoons face an uncertain future in the digital age
WE are all reading (sadly for us!) fewer and fewer newspapers as the months go by. Television was the first real blow to hit paper
Costa Blanca expat hotspot to be transformed into medieval Spain as incredible historical festival returns this weekend to – all you need to know
PERCHED on the Costa Blanca between Alicante and Valencia, the former fishing village of Teulada Moraira is known to most for its charming coves and
Valencia’s Science Museum is refreshing its summer programme with groovy new exhibition ‘Dance! The Art of Movement’
THE Valencia cultural summer calendar just got more interesting with the Science Museum’s body-bending new exhibition, Dance! The Art of Movement. The announcement of this new
This Week in Spain: Cartoonists, US invasions and 800,000-year-old skulls
Welcome to a new Olive Press series, ‘This Week in Spain’. Each week, Michael Coy will guide readers through the key moments in Spanish history
Getting to know Antoni Gaudi: The Catalan architect’s masterpieces you’ve probably NEVER heard of
MOST people have been to the Sagrada Familia and Casa Batllo, but have you heard of these little-known Gaudi works? Every year, thousands of tourists
The embodiment of flamenco: Celebrating the 80th birthday of a Spanish national treasure
CRISTINA Hoyos Panadero was born in Sevilla on 13 June, 1946. She is 80 today, and she is one of Spain’s national treasures. More than
Popular British expat crime writer living on the Costa Blanca lands major multi-book deal
A UK author living part-time in Spain has just signed a publishing deal for several crime novels. Gordon Brown just received a publishing deal to
ON THIS DAY: The Spanish villagers who refused to go to war – and the moment Real Madrid won the first-ever Champions League final
BLINK and you’d miss it. La Nava has two bars and an auto-repair shop – and 270 inhabitants. The Spanish word for a place that’s
Legendary British author Julian Barnes wins Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias award
LEICESTER-BORN literary legend Julian Barnes has won Spain’s prestigious Princess of Asturias Award. Barnes, 80, burst onto the literary scene in 1980 with his debut
ON THIS DAY: The moment Franco closed the border with Gibraltar – and the Brits annoyed Spain by pinching the Falklands
IN 1967 Gibraltar voted by 99.6% of the electorate to remain British. In other words, one vote in 250 went against Britishness. Franco wasn’t happy.
The awe-inspiring genius of Sagrada Familia architect Antoni Gaudi, 100 years on from his tragic death
THE month of June is inextricably linked with Barcelona’s Antoni Gaudi. This year will be extra special as a host of VIPs – including Pope
The oldest of Spain: A tour through centuries of history – including theatres, bullrings and delicious age-old recipes
HERE is part two of our series celebrating Spain’s oldest things. SPAIN’S OLDEST CHEMIST – ESTEVE Sixteenth-century blue ceramic jars (alborellos), nineteenth-century glass, boxes with
The oldest of Spain: A tour through centuries of history – including football clubs, bars and restaurants
FOLLOWING the interest shown in our recent piece about Spain’s oldest bookshop, we thought readers might like to learn about some other ‘oldest’ things. We
ON THIS DAY: How a deal struck by a Spanish pope shaped our world – and explains why Brazilians speak Portuguese
HAVE you ever wondered why they speak Spanish all over Central and South America, except in Brazil, where they speak Portuguese? It’s Christopher Columbus’s fault!
ON THIS DAY: A tragedy in the ring and an outrage on the streets – paving the way for decades of ETA violence
IGNACIO Sanchez first saw the light of day in Sevilla on 6 June 1891, and later married into a bullfighting dynasty.  Apart from those two
ON THIS DAY: The birth of Lorca and Velazquez – and the Holland surrender that inspired a masterpiece
DIEGO Rodriguez De Silva y Velazquez, one of the world’s greatest artists, was baptised in Seville on 6 June of the last year of the
Britain’s greatest living architect who has shaped Spain’s skyline for six decades takes his seat on the world’s top design jury
ARCHITECTURAL legend Norman Foster has been named as a judge for one of the world’s leading architecture and design programmes. The 91-year-old British designer will
How the USA almost belonged to Andalucia thanks to a 1778 Malaga expedition that brought Spanish settlers to the heart of Louisiana
PERHAPS it sounds preposterous to suggest that the United States of America could have belonged to Andalucia, but it almost happened. When the Seven Years’
FROM THE ARCHIVES: ‘I spent three days at Primavera Sound Barcelona – this is why you MUST add it to your festival list’
FOR three nights every year, tens of thousands of partygoers descend on Parc del Forum, an uninspiring concrete jungle nestled between the high-rise buildings of
ON THIS DAY: The birth of an English actor, Spanish singer-songwriter and great friend of Lorca
31 MAY, 1910 – LUIS ROSALES IS BORN When he first saw the light of day, 116 years ago, Luis Rosales entered Granada’s elite. His
12 silly laws in Spain that’ll leave you baffled (and possibly fined)
SUNSHINE, sangria and… legal landmines? Spain may be known for its beaches and fiestas, but it’s also a hotspot for eyebrow-raising laws that can land
ON THIS DAY: The bravery of the ‘Spanish Joan of Arc’ and the plucky donkey who inspired a book adored by all
The year 1808 was a bit like 1940. An aggressive conqueror, seemingly invincible, was sweeping across Europe, using his armies to subject nation after nation
Outrage after drainage pipes are installed ‘coming out of the backsides’ of the famous gargoyles on Santiago de Compostela’s UNESCO cathedral
A MULTI-million euro facelift at one of Spain’s iconic landmarks has landed this Galician town as the butt of a joke. Tourists in Santiago de
Researchers discover 134 shipwrecks off Gibraltar – making the bay one of Europe’s richest underwater graveyards
SPANISH researchers have discovered a trove of 134 wrecked ships at the bottom of the sea off Gibraltar – in what they say represents an
ON THIS DAY: A clumsy British accent created Andalucia’s most iconic wine empire and an unregulated firework factory blew Alicante to pieces
PART I: THE SHERRY REVOLUTION SPAIN’S multi-million euro sherry empire was built entirely on a bizarre twist of fate, an ancient accident, and a clumsy
ON THIS DAY: A supremely talented singer is born – and a deadly bar collapse rocks British tourist hotspot
THE bare facts of Juanito Valderrama’s life are easily stated. He was born 110 years ago in the north-east of Andalucia. A natural singer with