Tag: Andalucia
“My local mountain hotel is to be renamed Harbour Lights and have Jacques Cousteau-themed rooms!”
The Web Manager of the Olive Press reveals how good humour and community spirit beat the floods in his town
What a wash out
Costly damages after floods decimated a trio of hotels and put a dampener on their best-laid Christmas plans
Floody hell
Junta chiefs blasted for lack of action after thousands of homes washed away in heaviest rainfall on record
Crash, bang, wallop
The Olive Press investigates if the La Cala curve is Spain’s most dangerous bend after at least 15 crashes between Christmas and New Year
On top of the world
One of Europe’s highest resorts, for the first time ever there are more than 100kms of runs in the Sierra Nevada, writes Jon Clarke
Novelli goes belly up
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Even Novelli’s biggest fans were disgusted with him’, as wounded hotel bites back against criticism, by Andrew Pearce
Obama’s man
Remarkable story behind the photo of this unknown Afro-American, who fought against Franco, in advance of US president’s visit
Mixed news for Spanish tourism
Costa del Sol tops tourist charts but statistics reveal sharp fall in 2009 hotel bookings
Expatriates march on Almeria
Hundreds of Britons protest in Almeria city against the latest bout of demolition orders
Extra virgin elixir of life
Not just fabulous on toast and salads, olive oil can help you live longer. As the olive picking season begins, Andrew Pearce and Jon Clarke discover that Andalucia's world-beating olive oil was not just the world's first example of branding, but how many of its century-old techniques still survive to this day
Snowed under
First the floods, now the snow arrives. Here conditions on the road between Grazalema and El Bosque, just 20 minutes from the Costa del Sol
Further flooding as Spanish rainfall reaches record books
Record rainfall in Andalucia leaves reservoirs up 20 per cent on last year. Here, heavy rain in Jerez caused the River Guadalete to flood thousands of homes
Welcome to my prison office
Disgraced mayor is ‘running town hall’ from his jail cell. Here, Juan Enciso is seen leaving court.
‘Narco-sub’ that got blown out of the water
As dozen Algeciras dockers are nicked in drugs swoop - and UK and Spain work together on 375 million euro haul - court hears how two Andalucian businessmen funded an underwater smuggling operation that quickly sunk
Record rainfall sees worst floods since 1940s
Some of heaviest rain on record leads to flood chaos in Andalucia. Here, a submerged house in Jimera de Libar, near Ronda. Picture Karl Smallman.
Brit developer in property scandal
Expat developer and shamed flamenco mayor implicated in Alcaucin housing scandal
Boneheads!
After years of speculation, months of investigations and weeks of digging, Spanish poet Lorca's remains are nowhere to be found. A big mistake, or did Franco's troops clear the mass grave just weeks after it was used?
Greenpeace warning
Hard-hitting campaign warns of future with decisive summit now underway
Junta stands its ground
Government stance threatens to further enflame Axarquia housing row
Three Kings come early
Award-winning tourism plan to restore King's Path to get funding this month
The Prehistoric museum of Andalucia
2010 is the 600th anniversary since the Christians conquered Antequera... But that is almost like yesterday in the glorious history of Andalucia’s oldest town, where Spain’s ‘first architects’ were based, writes Jon Clarke
Enough is enough!
Andalucia ombudsman calls for immediate halt to all coastline construction
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