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Valencia

Campaigners call on Valencia City Council to save historic lighthouse earmarked for demolition

Kimberley Mannion - 5 Jun, 2022 @ 10:00

CAMPAIGNERS are up in arms over plans to destroy a century-old lighthouse at the entrance to Valencia Port described as a relic from the...

Costa Blanca

Schoolchildren promote rich cultural and religious heritage with video made on Spain’s Costa Blanca

Simon Wade - 20 Dec, 2021 @ 13:30

ORIHUELA schoolchildren have participated in a video to remind us of Spain’s rich religious cultural heritage. The City Council has been working with an organisation...

La Cultura

Locals offered sneak peek inside new Dolmens Museum in Antequera in Spain’s Andalucia

Cristina Hodgson - 24 Sep, 2021 @ 16:00

THE new Dolmens Museum in Antequera will offer a series of museum open days starting this coming Monday, September 27. After an investment of €4.5...

Granada

Alhambra Museum in Granada receives more than 43,000 visitors in first half of the year

Cristina Hodgson - 17 Aug, 2021 @ 10:00

THE Museum of the Alhambra in Granada has received 43,470 visitors in the first half of this year, with a staggering 20,463 people visiting...

‘Charla al fresco’ in the town of Algar. Photo: Ayuntamiento de Algar

Andalucian village makes UNESCO bid to protect tradition of neighbourly doorstep chat

Fiona Govan - 6 Aug, 2021 @ 15:45

A SLEEPY town in the southern tip of Spain wants to elevate the long held tradition of having a neighbourly chat on one’s doorstep...

Environment

Green group in Spain call for protection of historic mine town

Elisa Menendez - 14 Mar, 2018 @ 16:02

Ecologists campaign to preserve the town from demolition

Gibraltar

Gibraltar International Bank wins heritage award for ‘sensitive conversion’ of its head office

Tom Powell - 4 Nov, 2015 @ 12:24

Ince’s Hall, last used as a nightclub, has been carefully restored

Travel News

Sohail castle: Steeped in history

Iona Napier - 27 Jun, 2015 @ 12:00

Throughout its long and turbulent history, it has been Fuengirola’s stand-out monument

Granada

Sierra Nevada National Park added to worldwide list of protected reserves

Jacqueline Fanchini (Reporter) - 1 Dec, 2014 @ 08:00

The Sierra Nevada National Park has been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature list of protected reserves

Malaga

Ronda’s Roman ruins’ future in jeopardy, says Spanish heritage group

Imogen Calderwood - 8 Oct, 2014 @ 12:28

Andalucia has more 'at-risk' cultural sites than any other region

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