Granada News & Information

Earthquake of 3.9 in Granada province
Environment 01/08/2017
Earthquake of 3.9 in Granada province

AN EARTHQUAKE reaching 3.9 on the Richter scale gave residents in the province of Granada a rude awakening last night (Monday) and led to emergency service calls from at least 10 towns and villages.

View
Granada protests after 700 days without a train
Transport 13/03/2017
Granada protests after 700 days without a train

AN ESTIMATED 7,000 people took to the streets in Granada yesterday (Sunday) to protest over their rail connection having been disbanded nearly two years ago and to call for better infrastructure serving the Alhambra...

View
BBVA sit-in ends peacefully
Education/Work 20/11/2008
BBVA sit-in ends peacefully

Around 300 protesters who camped out inside BBVA headquarters in Granada city centre last night in protest at the government's bank bailout scheme for banks and real estate companies, have now left the building...

View
Body of missing jogger found at reservoir
Crime/Incidents 03/03/2006
Body of missing jogger found at reservoir

The young woman who was found dead at Cubillas reservoir near Granada has been identified by her parents as 27 year old Beatriz CR, who went missing when she went out for a jog on Wednesday night along the calle...

View
So, what did the Catholic Monarchs do for Spain?
Politics 22/09/2005
So, what did the Catholic Monarchs do for Spain?

Well, apart from uniting Spain, completing the 700 year Reconquest by retaking Granada from the Moorish invaders in 1492 (main photo, the Patio de la Acequía in the Generalife Palace), funding the voyages of...

View
Education/Work 08/07/2005
New hope for Granada prostitutes

A mobile Red Cross unit in Granada is slowly gaining the confidence of prostitutes and their customers by providing them with free condoms. So far this year, four former prostitutes have decided to stop what they are...

View
Advertisement