Thursday, March 28, 2024

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PHOTOS: Daughter of Russian oligarch enjoys lavish Marbella hen-do before wedding in €500,000 jewel-encrusted dress

They partied and soaked up the sun on a luxury yacht ahead of the big day

Rare Spanish treasure found among child’s ‘toy’ set by British owner

Worth up to €300,000, the rare Queen Anne Vigo five guinea piece was given to an anonymous owner by his grandfather

Spanish literary figure Don Quixote was inspired by windmill-attacking nobleman’s son

Some 400 years after famed author Miguel de Cervantes’s death, researcher Javier Escudero claims to have found the inspiration for the writer’s leading character

Film made to honour Miguel de Unamuno’s heroic speech against Spain’s General Franco

As The Island of Wind honouring one of Spain’s great intellectuals hits cinema screens, Joe Duggan recalls the day Miguel de Unamuno bravely defied Franco

Spanish Michelin-starred chef draws inspiration from William Shakespeare

Mugaritz is ranked No. 7 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list

Arriate’s Fiesta en el Aire another huge success

Rows of food and drink stalls lined the streets and artisan games were dotted about for kids to enjoy during the three-day fiesta

Monster six-foot long catfish caught by British father and son in Spain

The father wrestled with the fish for 45 minutes

Mind, Body and Spirit festival coming to Marbella

If you’ve never had your aura photographed, now’s your chance

Manilva eighth century castle remains to become Andalucian tourist hotspot

Mayor Diego Jimenez has pledged his support for the project

Franco exhibition in Spain met with protests and egging

Catalan separatists shouted ‘no fascists on our streets’

Spain’s pirate-matador gored in the face AGAIN five years after losing his eye

Five years after losing his left eye in a horrific goring, Juan Jose Padilla has taken another horn to the face

Spanish town may fine church over its ‘noisy bells’

The town hall found the bells to be 30 decibels above the allowed rate

Cave drawings some 14,500 years old found in Spain

They have been described by experts as the 'most spectacular' in the Iberian peninsula

Teachers in Spain among highest paid in the world

The entry level salary was nearly €7,600 above the OECD average

4×4 bullfighting shows slammed by Spanish animal rights group PACMA

The Spanish political party released footage of 4X4 drivers chasing after bulls

Gypsies in Spain are leaving their traditional camp lifestyle

The number of gypsies living in camps has reduced by 70%

Shocking footage released of sex worker servicing client near schoolkids in Spain

The woman carries on with the act despite the number of walkers by

Former Franco-era womens’ prison converted into art gallery in Spain

The exhibiting artists have all worked with the themes of suffocation, isolation and resistance

Hieronymus Bosch exhibition smashes visitor records at Spain’s Prado museum

Known as El Bosco in Spanish, Bosch has long been a favourite with the public with his 15th century painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, attributed to inspiring the surrealist movement in Spain

Spanish woman slammed for having baby at 62, 20 years after beginning menopause

She became pregnant using fertility treatment

Woman in Spain rescued after ‘blood-curdling screams’ alert police to her exorcism

Sanctioned exorcisms are regularly carried out by the Catholic Church in Spain

Missing ‘child painter of Malaga’ declared dead 29 years after he disappeared

Budding artist David Guerrero disappeared from his Malaga home at the age of 14, almost three decades ago

Bullfighting is suffering a ‘profound crisis of identity’

Bullfighting will disappear sooner rather than later

Artists come together to present exhibition in Orgiva

Artwork ranges from photography to scluptures

New dig for murdered Spanish Civil War poet Federico Garcia Lorca begins near Granada

Team hopes to uncover answers to one of Spain's greatest mysteries

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