Saints and souls and modern day ghouls
For Theresa O’Shea, Halloween in Spain is a time for visiting departed loved ones and eating roasted chestnuts
PUMPKIN sales in Spain at the end...
The dehesas of Extremadura
The size of Switzerland, the region of Extremadura is home to farmland unique to Spain and endangered animals such as the lynx and imperial eagle of Iberia
A local paedophile, not the McCanns killed Maddie
As the parents of Missing Madeleine claim their innocence on Spanish TV, the Olive Press’ Jon Clarke – the first British newspaper journalist on...
Dancing bears in Spain cause public outcry
In today’s Europe, Lisa Tilley asks should it be legal to force a wild animal to perform human tricks
Dispatches from a place long lost
In the 50th anniversary since its first publication, Carlos Pranger looks at the events that led to seminal book, South from Granada
IN 1954, German...
Why do some want us to forget?
If Spain’s judges can chase, hound and illegitimise Latin American dictators, why can’t they do the same to their own asks Carlos Pranger
WITH the...
The Queen of Spain’s literary past
Hemingway for lunch, fascists hiding in the bathroom, beatnik blondes staying for years. After the Olive Press reported that Gerald Brenan’s house is in...
Drowning in water, bricks and mortar
As the big clean up of Almuñecar begins, Bob Maddox draws parallels between the flood destruction wrought in the town and that in sleepy...
The Search for Lorca’s Grave
Carlos Pranger
WHEN the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Gerald Brenan was living with his wife Gamel Woolsey in Churriana, a village west...
Hollywood star’s Marbella home closer to demolition
It appears the Spanish justice system has finally caught up with actor Antonio Banderas
Mystery deluge of sewage from Ronda massacres thousands of fish
Could malfunction of new Ronda sewage works be behind leak that has snuffed out all life in the Guadiaro in Jimera?
The goats of Spain
The wild mountain goats frequently found in herds across the mountain ranges of Andalucia are Spanish Ibex
Myths and mortar
Lisa Tilley delivers some home-truths about the Spanish property market and advice for those who want out
Worth its weight in gold
Clive Muir and Sue Eatock investigate the carob tree, whose seeds are valued by jewellers and goldsmiths
The Collar of Concrete strangling Spain
In this exclusive, hard-hitting dispatch, author Chris Stewart warns that in selling out to developers, Spain risks destroying its tourist industry. In a call...
El cinturón de cemento que acabará asfixiando a España
En este informe revelador, el escritor de Entre Limones, Chris Stewart, nos avisa del peligro que corre el turismo en España si sigue vendiéndose...
Bringing back the bone-crusher
Lisa Tilley investigates the battle to reintroduce the lammergeyer vulture to the sierras of Andalucia
THE lammergeyer is affectionately known as the ‘bearded vulture’ in...
Eta’s crusade and the imaginary Basque nation
Carlos Pranger looks at the history of Eta and wonders what the future holds for the separatist group
ON March 22, 2006, Eta declared a...
Bare facts on Spain’s bears
Listed in the Spanish Catalogue of Endangered Species as being in danger of extinction, the Cantabrian brown bear’s existence in Spain is not widely known
We need a better-informed drug user
Alarming reports into cocaine abuse in Spain do not surprise Carlos Pranger. He believes too many of his countrymen confuse the freedom of democracy...
No tears left to shed
This mass grave by the roadside was not the first in Spain to be unearthed in the past four years and it wouldn’t be...
In search of Sylvania
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Groucho Marx's death, Paul Read travels to Loja to find out why the town was chosen to feature...
From bikinis to zimmer frames
In the final part of our exclusive serialisation of Ghosts of Spain, Giles Tremlett explains how British buyers are closely tied to the sewer...
Brothels for the disabled!
Spain is probably the most permissive and sex obsessed country in Europe, discovers Tremlett
WHEN it comes to sex surveys, I am used to Cosmopolitan...
The Ghosts of Spain
Here, in our first exclusive extract from Guardian correspondent Giles Tremlett's incisive, ground-breaking book Ghosts of Spain, we relive the tragic “secret” events that...
My collision with Spain’s troubled history
One of the longest serving foreign correspondents in Spain, Giles Tremlett delivers an almost daily slice of Iberian news to the pages of The...
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