Van Gogh Alive to visit Valencia from July to October
THE world’s most visited multimedia exhibition will arrive in Valencia in July.Van Gogh Alive, which has broken visitor...
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
Huge tribute rock concert returning to Spain’s Costa del Sol
THE hottest rock festival on the Costa del Sol returns as an amazing line-up has just been announced.Pink Purple Productions is presenting The Pink...
Woody Allen will film new project starring Christoph Waltz in Spain this summer as more details emerge
Filming is set to begin July 10 in Spain
IN PICS: Artist re-imagines Spain’s Malaga without ‘destructive’ tourism and construction boom
In a series of photoshopped images, Katharina Fitz has returned the coastline of the provincial capital to a place inhabited only by fishermen
Liam Gallagher to meet Take That in Gibraltar among ongoing feud as Oasis rocker announced for MTV Gibraltar Calling...
Gallagher's feud with band member Robbie Williams - who luckily won't be playing on the Rock - stretches back to the early 2000s
7 GOOD things the British have contributed to Spain
While we do we have many a moron - as does every country - Spain knows that we, too, have something to offer
LISTEN: Which singer in Spain made the ‘top 10’ list of songs in the first half of 2019?
The track by the genre-defying Catalan artist, 25, was described as a mashup of ‘dembow, hip-hop and flamenco’
A PUT-DOWN A DAY: New Spanish book praises ‘therapeutic’ quality of insulting
INSULTS have been branded ‘therapeutic’ in a new book by Catalonian author Sergio Parra.In Mecaguen!, published by Vox,...
Pablo Escobar’s estranged British-educated son signs ‘extraordinary’ book deal in Mallorca
PABLO Escobar’s long-lost son has signed a publishing to tell the extraordinary story of his life.Roberto Sendoya Escobar...
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
GHOSTA BLANCA: Illegal art exhibition takes over one of Spain’s most haunted buildings
ONE of Spain’s most-haunted buildings has become the scene of an illegal art exhibition by a notorious Swedish guerrilla artist.
7 times town halls in Spain had us screaming ‘what were they thinking?’
If you’re still chuckling over Estepona’s farcical ‘death slide’ then you’ll enjoy our giggle-worthy roundup of government gaffes
IN PICS: The jobs of the past in Spain made (almost) obsolete by modern life
It can be a shame to see these vocations dwindle, as they often remind us of the past and hold a certain sentimental value
WATCH: Afilador plies his trade on Costa del Sol as one of the last to practice long-held Spanish tradition
The throwaway culture of the western world has seen their business dry up
JOBS: Marbella’s Starlite Festival looking for 400 workers this summer, find out how to apply here
STARLITE Festival has begun looking for employees for this year's edition. The Marbella festival is offering 400 jobs over the months of July and August.From...
10 incredible locations Game of Thrones SHOULD have filmed in Spain
We’ve put together a list of places we feel would have added to the stark alien beauty of Westeros and Essos
Marbella set to receive one of the largest murals in the WORLD
MARBELLA is set to receive one of the largest murals in the world. The cubist effort will brighten up the entrance to the Palacios...
Tarantino bids to beat Spain’s Almodovar and Britain’s Loach to Palme d’Or with latest Brad Pitt and DiCaprio movie
Meanwhile, British director Ken Loach, hopes to beat the American and Spaniard to the top prize with Sorry We Missed You
You can now buy a Picasso-inspired print by Rolling Stones star Ronnie Wood
The prints by the rock legend are now on sale, with 50 copies of the 'Abstract Stones' version one available for €1,750 a piece
Legendary painter Mark Ryden among dozens of artists at NEW Malaga pop art show, amid gallery staff contract row
It comes after a row broke at the CAC, as 17 staff from its Oleo restaurant were sacked, while 22 workers have denounced the Town Hall over contract disputes
Former boss of Spain’s Alhambra Palace accused of using monument’s audio guides to embezzle up to €12 MILLION
The accused could appear before a judge by next week
Malaga’s iconic Mirador Princess wheel to be taken down for a car park
Malaga’s tourism board uses the installation in the majority of its advertising campaigns
WATCH: Pensioner, 74, gored to death during bull running festival in Spain’s Andalucia
The Toro Embolada event has been run every year in the Cadiz town since 1976
British artist Mat Collishaw talks Brexit, Goya and the Bible from new exhibition in Madrid
A contemporary of Hirst at Goldsmith’s, Mat became the talk of the art world in 1988 when he exhibited Bullet Hole at the collective Young British Artists exhibition, Freeze
How a Welshman helped the Spanish win one of the biggest land deals in US history
The Welsh Don Juan … The one who’s belief that Welsh Indians roamed America’s Wild West helped a President strike the greatest land deal in history
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RURAL RETURN: Music, dance and theatre festival run by Brit in rural inland town celebrates fifth anniversary
Me Vuelves Lorca is held in a beautiful, handcrafted stone amphitheatre which was built by the local community in 2013 around an ancient corn-threshing circle
