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Primavera Sound Barcelona announces its 2026 line-up: Here’s what partygoers can expect from Spain’s biggest music festival

HUNDREDS of thousands of partygoers – including tens of thousands of Brits – make the pilgrimage every summer to Barcelona to attend Primavera Sound, widely

25 Sep, 2025 @ 14:33

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Wizz Air joins the rush to swoop in on Ryanair’s retreat from Spain with 40 new routes

BUDGET airline Wizz Air is capitalising on Ryanair’s ongoing feud with Spanish airport operator Aena by launching 40 new routes to and from Spain. The

25 Sep, 2025 @ 10:33

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DATE FOR THE DIARY: Sagrada Familia in Barcelona will host grand ceremony to mark centenary of Gaudi’s death

IT’S taken more than 140 years, countless cranes and a mountain of scaffolding – but Barcelona’s world-famous Sagrada Familia is about to hit the heights.

22 Sep, 2025 @ 15:48

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Angelina Jolie breaks silence on US Politics at Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival

ANGELINA Jolie has made her mark at the San Sebastian Film Festival, not just for her role in Couture, but for offering a rare, candid

22 Sep, 2025 @ 15:00

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5,000-year-old ‘lost tomb’ discovered in Teba – one of Andalucía’s biggest archaeological finds

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a 5,000-year-old dolmen in the heart of Malaga province, and it’s one of the most monumental and best-preserved in all of Andalucía.

22 Sep, 2025 @ 14:30

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Spain to spend €13bn on mega airport upgrades – as Ryanair slams ‘rip-off’ fees

SPAIN is gearing up for a massive airport makeover – with the government splashing out nearly €13 billion to boost capacity at its busiest hubs.

20 Sep, 2025 @ 16:43

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Malaga Airport’s massive €1.5bn expansion plans: No need to remove liquids or laptops from bags

PASSENGERS travelling through Malaga Airport will no longer need to remove liquids or laptops from their bags once its new €1.5 billion expansion plan is

19 Sep, 2025 @ 11:26

Andalucia·Costa del Sol·Lead·Malaga·Travel News

Sick of low-cost let-downs? Here are Europe’s top ten airlines; featuring two British and one Spanish carrier – but which is top?

THEY may carry millions of passengers to Spain’s beaches each year, but Ryanair, Jet2, Vueling and easyJet are nowhere to be seen in the latest

17 Sep, 2025 @ 18:00

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Spain joins Mediterranean countries in blocking EU restrictions on Russian tourist visas due to ‘economic benefits’

SPAIN has joined Greece, Italy, France and Hungary in vetoing European Union plans to impose sweeping restrictions on tourist visas for Russian nationals The Mediterranean

16 Sep, 2025 @ 15:30

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Flights are diverted from Malaga airport due to foggy conditions

Malaga airport posts best ever August passenger figures: British numbers wipe the floor with second-placed Germans

MALAGA-COSTA del Sol Airport had its best ever August in terms of passenger numbers, newly published figures reveal – with Brits eyeing up some summer

15 Sep, 2025 @ 15:21

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Spain’s airport operator accuses Ryanair CEO of ‘lying continuously’ in row over ‘excessive fees’

THE chief executive of Spain’s state-owned airport operator has accused Ryanair’s outspoken CEO Michael O’Leary of ‘not telling the truth’ over a bitter fees row

15 Sep, 2025 @ 14:49

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More than 8,000 tourist flats to be removed from Malaga province

THE Spanish government has announced that over 8,000 tourist flats in Malaga province will be removed from online platforms such as Airbnb and Booking. Prime

15 Sep, 2025 @ 14:21

Andalucia·Business & Finance·Costa del Sol·Lead·Malaga·Other News·Property·Travel News

In the red: The once-optimistic Andalucian airport and gateway to the Costa de la Luz that has missed the wave of Spain’s tourism boom

SPAIN’S rocketing economy has in large part been driven by a booming tourist sector which welcomed a record-breaking 44.5 million international tourists in the first

15 Sep, 2025 @ 12:49

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Huge queues and travel chaos at Spain’s busiest airport as strike action hits holidaymakers

TRAVELLERS are facing massive delays and travel chaos at Madrid-Barajas Airport today as an indefinite security strike continues to cause huge queues and flight disruptions

15 Sep, 2025 @ 11:22

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Ryanair threatens to cut another million seats to Spain by next summer as airline goes all in against Spanish airports

RYANAIR has warned it could strip another one million seats from flights to Spain next summer if the country’s airport operator does not back down

12 Sep, 2025 @ 15:24

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Vueling accused of anti-semitism after group of Jewish children are removed from plane in Valencia

Vueling offers Spain’s airports 1.5 million new passenger seats in wake of Ryanair withdrawals

VUELING has announced a major boost to its winter schedule in Spain, adding 1.5 million seats across Santiago de Compostela and Tenerife Norte. The expansion

12 Sep, 2025 @ 11:39

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Ryanair makes welcome changes to carry-on luggage size after bruising battle with Spain’s airports

RYANAIR has increased the size of its free carry-on bag for all passengers following a dispute with Spanish authorities. Effective from early September 2025, travellers

11 Sep, 2025 @ 11:18

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WATCH: The Olive Press’s inaugural weekly news roundup – all the biggest stories, on video

This week we saw Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez call Israel’s operation in Gaza a genocide, as he announced an arms embargo on Israel, prompting Netanyahu

9 Sep, 2025 @ 15:33

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Spanish stargazers left disappointed as calima clouds out rare Blood Moon and total lunar eclipse

ARMED with a trusty pair of binoculars and keeping a keen eye on their watch, thousands of stargazers across Spain looked upwards on Sunday in

9 Sep, 2025 @ 11:57

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This medieval cobble-stoned town was the first in Spain to be declared a ‘Historic-Artistic Site’ – and continues to thrive

WITH a population of just 1,045, the tiny municipality of La Alberca, nestled on the southern edge of Salamanca province, is easy to miss. But

9 Sep, 2025 @ 11:31

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All you need to know as Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia opens its doors to 20,000 visitors for FREE

A TICKET can normally set you back €30, but this September one of Spain’s most famous landmarks will open its doors for free. To celebrate

8 Sep, 2025 @ 20:16

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EXPLAINER: Pensions, e-gates and youth mobility: What are the key takeaways from Spain and the UK’s historic agreement?

QUICKER airport queues, the chance of UK students rejoining Erasmus, and new guarantees on citizens’ rights – those are some of the headline promises from

6 Sep, 2025 @ 08:00

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Malaga’s ‘tourist-free’ tapas bars… now on the tourism map thanks to National Geographic

REMEMBER those quaint little tapas bars in Malaga city where locals sipped their wine and nibbled boquerones in peace, far from selfie sticks and tourist

4 Sep, 2025 @ 15:59

Andalucia·Food & Drink·Lead·Malaga·Other News·Travel News

Ryanair threatens ‘tourism disaster’ for Spain as it directs two million seats to rival holiday destinations

RYANAIR has warned of a “tourism disaster” for Spain as it slashes flights from regional airports and diverts capacity to rival destinations such as Italy,

4 Sep, 2025 @ 12:16

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The top 10 European airports most likely to suffer travel chaos when the EES kicks in next month

BRITISH travellers could face severe disruption at some of Europe’s busiest airports when the EU’s long-delayed Entry/Exit System (EES) finally comes into force. The scheme

3 Sep, 2025 @ 14:15

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Ryanair pulls out of two airports and scraps a million seats in row over taxes in Spain

Ryanair pulls out of two airports and withdraws one million seats due to tax dispute in Spain

RYANAIR has announced on Wednesday where its axe will fall at Spanish regional airports in its ongoing dispute with airport operator Aena over tax charges,

3 Sep, 2025 @ 12:00

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