Rosalia breaks new ground as first Spanish artist to ever win a prestigious BRIT music award
SPANISH singer Rosalia made more history on Saturday night as she became the first Spanish music artist to ever win a BRIT award. The Catalan-born
ON THIS DAY: How a royal snub, smashed machines in Alicante and the first Spanish ID card shaped the nation
MARCH 2 is a date etched into Spanish history for a bizarre combination of reasons. It is a day that links a fatal case of
OBITUARY: The man who held Spain at gunpoint for 72 hours in a bid to return from democracy to dictatorship
FOR anyone over the age of 55 in Spain, the image is burned into their memory. A Guardia Civil lieutenant-colonel, armed with a pistol, storms
What is Andalucia Day? All you need to know ahead of bank holiday celebration this week
ALL you need to know ahead of Andalucia Day as the region celebrates its heritage this Friday. February 28, marks Dia de Andalucia, a public
The world’s largest floating library is coming to Malaga – and you can explore its 5,000 books from around the world for just two euros
A FLOATING book fair will dock in Malaga next month, giving visitors the chance to step aboard one of the most unusual cultural attractions to
ON THIS DAY: Spain’s great ‘master of light’ was born – famed for obsessively painting the Alhambra and documenting children with polio
THE great Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida was born in Valencia on 27 February, 1863. A contemporary of John Singer Sargent, and starting to achieve fame
Spain’s must-see exhibitions this year: From Baroque masterpieces to contemporary tapestries
SPAIN is home to a staggering 1,600-plus museums, making choosing your culture fix for a weekend away a truly tricky decision. Now add in the
Spanish officer who led failed 1981 coup attempt dies on day top-secret documents related to the plot are declassified
ANTONIO Tejero, who led a failed coup attempt in Spain in 1981 has died at the age of 93. The former Guardia Civil officer supported
Reform MP calls for immigrants in the UK to speak English – but is the sentiment shared for British immigrants in Spain?
REFORM UK politicians often insist immigrants should learn English – but how do the Spanish feel about Brits who haven’t mastered the lingo? Sarah Pochin,
What’s behind Spain’s bizarre new craze of young people dressing up as animals – and does it spell the end of western civilisation?
ALL eyes in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol were locked onto the boy – some mirthful, some scornful and some merely curious. Wearing a white wolf
Top 10 Jewish Sites to See in Spain: A Jewish Tours Spain Guide
I remember my confusion around the time I began writing for The Olive Press back in 2019. It was a story how Spain’s government passed
A mysterious joker calling himself the ‘Son of Cervantes’ is leaving bizarre anti-foreigner poems on statues around Malaga’s Ronda
EXPATS and locals alike have been left stunned after a mysterious poet launched a bizarre campaign demanding that foreigners leave the Malaga town of Ronda.
The man who tried to make himself dictator of Spain now lives in quiet retirement on the Costa del Sol
EXACTLY 45 years ago today, a moustachioed Guardia Civil officer burst into Spain’s parliament, fired a submachine gun into the ceiling and ordered everyone to
ON THIS DAY: The inside story of the failed coup d’état that almost sent Spain spinning back into dictatorship
DO you remember when John Lennon was murdered in New York? Ten weeks later, the month of February 1981 turned out to be historic: not
LIFE IN SPAIN: The all-American expat and painter from Philadelphia who conquered Spain’s bullfighting world
JOHN Fulton died on February 20, 1998, at the age of 65, leaving behind one of the most remarkable expat legacies in Andalucia. His story
WATCH: Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia finally reaches maximum height after 144 years of construction with installation of crowning cross
THE Sagrada Familia, the magnificent gothic basilica that looms over the Barcelona city skyline, has finally reached its peak height after workers laid the final
Eye-catching chalet tucked away in remote Spanish forest is confirmed as the work of Antoni Gaudi 100 years on from his death
HIDDEN in the Catalan woods, a mysterious chalet has finally been revealed as a Gaudà creation – more than a century after it was built.
Goodbye to Cadiz’s prize catch? The iconic bluefin tuna could be leaving Spanish waters – and you can guess why
CLIMATE change is pushing Atlantic bluefin tuna northward, threatening historic breeding grounds and putting one of Spain’s most valuable seafood industries at risk. Bluefin tuna,
Bid to enforce three-year jail sentences for wearing the burqa in Spain’s public spaces is narrowly defeated in Spanish parliament
A PROPOSED bill that would have banned the burqa in public spaces will no longer become law after it was narrowly voted down in Spain’s
What lies behind Spain’s curious and ancient tradition of holding a funeral for a SARDINE during Carnaval?
In what is surely one of Spain’s most bizarre traditions, people will gather across Spain this week to attend a solemn burial of a symbolic
Bored in Barcelona? Why not check out one of Europe’s largest photo exhibitions
BARCELONA’S Photo Forum Fest returns this week with a programme that goes beyond trade stands and camera demos, placing a strong focus on exhibitions open
Foodie alert: New Madrid food festival aims to blend Michelin-star cuisine with street market vibe
MADRID’S newest food festival is here – and it’s breaking all the fine dining rules. If you’ve ever tried booking a high-end restaurant in Madrid,
Graffiti on Civil War memorial to 13 executed women reveals how Spain still hasn’t made peace with its past
A WOMAN’S name and the letters ‘RIP’ were scrawled across a historic Spanish monument last month – vandalism that many argue was anything but random.
‘Clearly the coolest language in the world’: Britain’s The Guardian newspaper campaigns for children to learn Spanish instead of French in schools
SPANISH, not French, should be the main foreign language taught in UK schools. That’s the verdict of a journalist from The Guardian, who argues that
IN PICS: The ‘quirky’ side of Andalucia’s Ronda – through the refreshing new eye of an expat photographer
SHE has been taking photos in the Serrania de Ronda area of Andalucia for over three decades. Lies Wajer fell in love with the town,
George Orwell’s brush with death during the Spanish Civil War shaped a British literary giant
ORWELL is widely considered the most influential British writer of the 20th century. But while the world knows Animal Farm and 1984, his journey to