World Heritage Wonders: The Best UNESCO Sites in Spain
With the package holiday Mecca of Benidorm vying for UNESCO World Heritage status, Tom Powell checks out membership to this exclusive culture club
The annual Gibraltar Fringe Festival set for this weekend
Modelled on the Edinburgh festival there are venues all over town
Annabel Keatley’s earth art coming soon to Granada’s Galeria Cartel
Keatley's work is going on display at Granada’s Galeria Cartel from May 21 to June 11
The troglodyte minstrel
Sam Goodwin meets the Rev Richard John, a sexagenarian London busker-turned-blues artist who has found his ‘sweet home Andalucia’ in a Granada cave
Picasso painting smashes record for most expensive art ever sold at auction
Women of Algiers sold for 160 million euros
EVENT CANCELLED: Fuengirola bullring to host 12-hour DJ festival
‘Pandemonium at the Bullring’ will take place on May 30
Spain seventh best country in the world to be a mother
While 62% of mothers ranked quality of life better in their adoptive countries than where they came from
Star-studded jazz festival set for Alhaurin de la Torre in July
Grammy winners Marcus Miller and Robert Glasper are on the line-up
World’s first LGBT language courses on offer in Sevilla
Open to all ages, the two or four week classes are led by a gay teacher and focus on travel, socialising and Spanish culture
Malaga Rocks Mijas music festival ‘will be cancelled’ by town hall
Event organisers are determined to play on
Spanish banker forbidden from taking his Picasso to the UK
Jamie Botin, main shareholder in Spanish bank Bankinter, has been trying to flog his artwork for three years
American director Francis Ford Coppola awarded Spain’s Princess of Asturias prize
The Godfather director also bagged a tidy €50,000
VIDEO: 15-year-old Gibraltarian wows Britain’s Got Talent judges with contemporary dance
Jonathan Lutwyche has become an overnight sensation after his performance on BGT
Art Gaucin Open Studios set for May
Gaucin’s artists fling their studio doors wide open to the public
A quarter of Spanish people fib about their weekend plans
A quarter of Spanish people tell tall tales about their weekend antics
Spanish kids leave home much later than EU average
The average age for Spaniards to leave home for the first time is 28.9 years
Mystery Casares mural artists reveal themselves as German art circle
German art trio Innerfields lay claim to the Banksy-esque artwork
Entire Jaen village turned into miniature statues by 3D printer
All 318 people living in Torrequebradilla were given a mini-me the same day
Spanish poet Federico Lorca executed in Granada during Spanish Civil War
New documents written in 1965 but only revealed today, are the first official documents to record Lorca's killing
King Juan Carlos had 10-year affair with German aristocrat
A new book about the former monarch's double life has been launched
Benidorm seeks Unesco world heritage status
The land of package holiday heaven wants to become a cultural wonder of the world
Legendary Hispanist Sir Raymond Carr dies age 96
Carr wrote many historical works, including the seminal ‘Spain 1808-1939’
Jaen’s flamenco festival Musica en Segura set to return in May
It is returning for its second edition with a range of top artists following the success of 2014’s inaugural festival
Mural city: Estepona’s al fresco art gallery
Estepona’s al fresco art gallery of 24 murals glams up bleak concrete buildings around town
Art lovers take in Antequera’s new art museum
The permanent collection comprises over 300 pieces spanning the 19th century to the present day
Could this be a Banksy in Andalucia?
Spotted by Olive Press reader and multimedia artist Jane Jewson on the road from Casares to Gaucin, two lifelike soldiers in battle dress square up