Clocks go back in Spain tonight – but do YOU know why we change the time twice a year?
On Sunday, October 25, at 3am, the clocks will officially go back one hour in mainland Spain.Â
When Hitler met Franco: How a stubborn seven-hour meeting at a railway station on the Spanish border may have turned the tide of WWII
On 23 October, 1940, two dictators at the very height of their powers met at a railway station on the French-Spanish frontier - but things
THIS WEEK IN SPANISH HISTORY: Franco’s body is exhumed, Magellan enters the Pacific and the War of Jenkins’ Ear roars into action
MICHAEL Coy delves into the events that took place in Spanish history this week, including the controversial exhumation of the body of General Franco.
Catalunya’s national day draws thousands onto streets – turnout rebounds from historic low as rift deepens in independence movement
THOUSANDS took to the streets across Catalunya on Friday to celebrate the region’s national day, with turnout rebounding from last year’s historic low.
THIS WEEK IN SPANISH HISTORY: The founding of Los Angeles, the birth of a TV chef and the return of Evita’s body
MICHAEL Coy traces this week in Spanish history, including the birth of a famous TV chef, the founding of LA and the death of Franco's
THIS WEEK IN SPANISH HISTORY: El Cid triumphs, Lorca is murdered and Rafael Nadal wins gold in Beijing
WELCOME to the latest edition of This Week in Spanish History, written by Michael Coy. 14 AUGUST, 1084 – El Cid wins major battle In
The heroic last stand of ‘La Portuguesa’ – the female soldier who fought Franco’s fascists, now found buried in a mass grave in Malaga
HISTORIANS believe they have discovered the remains of celebrated female fighter hidden among six men in a Spanish Civil War mass grave in Malaga. The
Mass Spanish Civil War grave unearthed in Andalucia as up to 9 victims are identified – including one showing signs of violent death
A MASS grave dating back to the Spanish Civil War has been unearthed in Malaga province nearly 90 years on, as up to nine people
ON THIS DAY: The moment Franco closed the border with Gibraltar – and the Brits annoyed Spain by pinching the Falklands
IN 1967 Gibraltar voted by 99.6% of the electorate to remain British. In other words, one vote in 250 went against Britishness. Franco wasn’t happy.
Spanish football club president who renamed team Flat Earth FC quits after ‘chasing Muslim players with leg of Iberico ham’
THE president of a Madrid-based football club has stepped down in disgrace after a video emerged of him chasing the side’s Muslim players with a
The curious link between Spain’s Easter processions and a fascist ally of dictator Franco
MANY readers will know about the Spanish ‘Legion’, the crack unit of the Spanish Army, based in Ronda and Almeria. You will have likely seen
ON THIS DAY: A cult priest is knighted and a Catalan patriot is executed – two opposing tales shaped by fascist dictator Franco
THIS is a story of two men with contrasting fates. JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA DE BALAGUER Y ALBAS On 2 April 1956, a Spanish priest was given
Spain to pardon over 50 women locked up by wife of dictator during Franco regime
MORE than 50 women locked away for being ‘rebellious’ or spending too much time outside by Francisco Franco’s wife are set to receive an official
Spain’s Pedro Sanchez vows to release all top-secret files related to failed coup d’état attempt made 45 years ago today
THE Spanish government has vowed to spill all the secrets on one of the most dramatic moments in the country’s modern history. Prime minister Pedro
ON THIS DAY: The inside story of the failed coup d’état that almost sent Spain spinning back into dictatorship
DO you remember when John Lennon was murdered in New York? Ten weeks later, the month of February 1981 turned out to be historic: not
Outrage in Spain after tomb for murdered ‘13 Rosas’ vandalised with graffiti sending vile death threats to female journalist
SPAIN’s prime minister Pedro Sanchez has vowed that ‘hatred, machismo and fear will not prevail’ after a tomb holding the remains of 13 young women
‘Violent, racist, authoritarian’: Acclaimed British historian reminds Spain who Franco really was amid surge in popularity for the dictator
FIFTY years ago this week, Francisco Franco died and Spain’s transition to democracy finally began. But half a century on from his death, is the
Spain grants citizenship to 170 descendants of International Brigade volunteers who fought Franco
THE Spanish government has announced that up to 170 descendants of volunteers in the International Brigade will receive citizenship in recognition of their ancestors’ fight
Six Spanish towns are still named after Franco, and no one’s stopping them
WHILE one small Andalusian village has just scrubbed Franco from its name, six other towns across Spain continue to defy the country’s 2022 Democratic Memory
Bizarre mural from the Spanish Civil War featuring Hitler, Mussolini and Franco is discovered in Alicante – but what does it mean?
A MURAL dating back to the Spanish Civil War featuring a soldier hammering the heads of dictators Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini on a dragon has
Spain’s disgraced former king Juan Carlos I will publish his memoir next year
JUAN Carlos, Spain’s disgraced and exiled former king, has announced he will publish his memoir next year, vowing to ‘explain my mistakes and bad decisions’
Spain’s Pedro Sanchez is compared to dictator Franco amid row over his ‘fake news’ crackdown
PEDRO Sanchez has been likened to the fascist dictator General Franco amid a row over his controversial media transparency plan designed to crack down on
Watch: Vox spokesperson mocks Gibraltar and Fabian Picardo as he declares British territory ‘Spanish whether you like it or not’
A SPOKESPERSON for the far-right Vox party has mocked Gibraltar and its chief minister Fabian Picardo in a video filmed on a boat near the
Spain’s Culture Ministry starts process to outlaw foundation honouring former dictator Francisco Franco
NEARLY 50 years after the death of Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish government has just announced that it will start the process to
Spain’s Iberian lynx is no longer at risk of extinction following years of conservation efforts
THE Iberian lynx is no longer classed as ‘endangered’ on the global red list of threatened species after a two-decade-long conservation effort across the peninsula.
Revealed: The thousands of Nazi collaborators in Spain who used businesses as fronts for top secret espionage
NEW research has shed light on the espionage activities of thousands of Nazi collaborators and informers who lived double lives in Spain during World War