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Train travel returns to normal in Spain today after unions reach deal to cancel strikes sparked by safety concerns

A THREE-DAY nationwide strike that threatened to cripple Spain’s rail network has been cut short after union leaders thrashed out a deal with the government.

10 Feb, 2026 @ 10:28

Lead·Olive Press Travel·Travel News

Spain’s nationwide three-day train strike kicks off today: All you need to know as hundreds of services are cancelled

SPAIN has been plunged into travel chaos after train drivers began a three-day nationwide strike in response to a spate of deadly accidents on the

9 Feb, 2026 @ 13:11

Lead·Travel News

All you need to know as Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia opens its doors to thousands of visitors for FREE

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

3 Feb, 2026 @ 13:42

Barcelona·Lead·Travel News

Vandals desecrate over 20 Jewish graves in Barcelona cemetery

VANDALS defaced dozens of Jewish graves at a Barcelona cemetery after an online map highlighted locations it described as ‘Zionist’ across the city. Catalan police

28 Jan, 2026 @ 11:20

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead·Politics

Barcelona’s Rodalies trains back up and running three days on from deadly crash

BARCELONA’S Rodalies commuter rail network is slowly returning to normal service three days on from a deadly crash. A train driver was killed and nearly

23 Jan, 2026 @ 10:50

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead·Travel News

‘Stop traffic on the lines urgently, please’: Listen to the harrowing call made by a train driver during Spain’s deadly Adamuz crash

THIS is the harrowing call made by one of the train drivers involved in a deadly train crash in southern Spain over the weekend. On

21 Jan, 2026 @ 13:10

Andalucia·Cordoba·Lead·Travel News

Dead train driver revealed to be trainee after retaining wall crashed into his cabin in Barcelona area

IT’S BEEN revealed that the driver of a train that crashed into a retaining wall that fell onto the rail track in the Barcelona area

21 Jan, 2026 @ 13:00

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead

Calls for train drivers to strike over safety fears after two deadly derailments in a week in Spain

A LEADING trade union representing train drivers in Spain is calling for a general strike across the entire sector after two deadly rail accidents in

21 Jan, 2026 @ 12:30

Andalucia·Catalunya·Lead·Travel News

BREAKING: Driver dead and at least 20 passengers injured after train derails near Barcelona

AT least one person has been killed after a train derailed near Barcelona on Tuesday evening. According to local reports, a train running on the

20 Jan, 2026 @ 23:48

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead·Travel News

BREAKING: Turkish Airlines jet makes emergency landing at Barcelona airport after bomb threat

A TURKISH Airlines passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing in Barcelona following a mid-flight bomb alert. Spanish police and the Guardia Civil

15 Jan, 2026 @ 16:01

Barcelona·Lead

Flight chaos in Spain as paraglider flies over airport causing diversions and delays

Revealed: These are the best and worst airports in Spain for delays and cancellations

EYE-OPENING new figures have lifted the lid on Spain’s best and worst airports for delays and cancellations. According to data crunched by boffins at AirHelp

13 Jan, 2026 @ 18:50

Lead·Mallorca·Travel News

Revealed: The Spanish locations featured in the return of the BBC’s glamorous spy drama The Night Manager

STARRING British heartthrob Tom Hiddleston as former British soldier Jonathan Pine alongside an all-star cast including Hugh Laurie, Tom Hollander and Elizabeth Debicki, The Night

13 Jan, 2026 @ 08:20

Celebrity·La Cultura·Lead·Olive Press Travel

WATCH: Macabre ‘Black Axe’ cult is smashed in Spain: Police swoop on feared mafia group in Sevilla and Malaga

THE Policia Nacional have arrested 34 people in a nationwide operation against an international crime ring known as Black Axe. The detentions- carried out in

9 Jan, 2026 @ 18:00

Barcelona·Crime & Law·Lead·Madrid·Malaga·Sevilla

Pope Leo will make first trip to Spain as pontiff this year with three ‘recommended’ destinations revealed

BARCELONA, Madrid, and the Canary Islands have been suggested as possible parts of Spain that Pope Leo could visit later this year. There has been

9 Jan, 2026 @ 17:00

Barcelona·Canary Islands·Lead·Madrid·National News

Here’s a list of Spain’s most sought-after holiday spots over Christmas – and most of them are in Andalucia

DESTINATIONS in Andalucia were among Spain’s most sought-after holiday spots over the Christmas period, new data has shown. Figures from holiday rental platform Holidu revealed

31 Dec, 2025 @ 11:19

Andalucia·Lead·Property

These Malaga neighbourhoods are among Spain’s most expensive – as prices top €10,000 per square metre, according to new data

SOME of Malaga’s neighbourhoods now rank among the most expensive places to buy a home in Spain, new data shows. Figures from property portal Pisos.com

26 Dec, 2025 @ 15:47

Lead·Malaga·Property

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia is nearing completion – but will it ever be truly finished?

FROM up there, the view is breathtaking. To the east, rolling waves lap a wind-swept expanse of marble-white sand; to the west, verdant hills loom

26 Dec, 2025 @ 12:36

Barcelona·Lead

Spain’s mystery swine fever outbreak declared a national emergency – as finger of blame points at high-security lab undergoing building works

A CATALUNYA laboratory that’s being expanded could be ground zero for the outbreak of swine fever affecting Spain. The country this week declared a state

10 Dec, 2025 @ 16:00

Barcelona·Catalunya·Environment·Health·Lead

Wild boars surprise beachgoers in Spain’s Marbella

Spain’s African swine fever outbreak ‘may have come from lab leak’, investigators say – after previously blaming half-eaten pork sandwich

INVESTIGATORS probing the cause of Spain’s African swine fever outbreak are examining whether the virus may have leaked from a nearby high-security laboratory. Previously, officials

8 Dec, 2025 @ 13:04

Catalunya·Environment·Lead

Homeowners are starting to sell up at an alarming rate in Spain amid fears of squatters and no-pay tenants

THE rental market in some of Spain’s biggest cities has been driven to the brink of collapse by a mix of government red tape and

5 Dec, 2025 @ 16:00

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead·Other News·Property

Landmark figure reached for foreign residents in popular expat area of Spain

Spain ‘will need 140,000 more immigrants a year’ – after taking in as many as the next four EU countries combined in last three years

BUSINESSES in Catalunya have called on the government to let more foreign workers into Spain amid warnings the country would cease “to be competitive” without

5 Dec, 2025 @ 09:39

Catalunya·Lead·Politics

Investigators find 50 dead wild boars in swine fever quarantine zone near Barcelona – as dozens of countries ban Spanish pork

AT least 50 wild boars have been found dead near Barcelona amid mounting fears that Spain’s swine flu outbreak could spread beyond the country’s borders.

4 Dec, 2025 @ 18:23

Barcelona·Catalunya·Lead

Spain is ghettoising: New data shows how immigrant groups are hiving off into parallel societies

NON-EUROPEAN residents in Spain are gravitating towards some of the country’s poorest districts, new data has shown, amid concerns that the trend could lead to

1 Dec, 2025 @ 17:53

Lead·Property

Corruption deepens in Andalucia: New ‘masks’ scandal in Almeria now linked to narco gang with Barcelona port police on the payroll

A PROBE into dodgy Covid contracts in Andalucia has exploded into a full-blown corruption storm after investigators uncovered alleged links to a narco gang using

27 Nov, 2025 @ 14:57

Almeria·Andalucia·Barcelona·Crime & Law·Health·Lead·Politics

Horror after ‘man throws his elderly mother to her death from apartment window’ near Barcelona

RESIDENTS in a Catalan neighbourhood have accused local authorities of ‘not giving a damn’ after a ‘violent’ man allegedly threw his mother out of an

23 Nov, 2025 @ 12:05

Barcelona·Catalunya·Crime & Law·Lead

Meet the 22-year-old ‘professional squatter’ who blackmails institutional owners to leave homes – and has never been to jail despite 31 arrests

On July 17 this year, a man shattered the glass of a first-floor balcony window in Cardedeu, a small town south-west of Barcelona, and slipped

23 Nov, 2025 @ 10:00

Barcelona·Lead·Property