Castile and Leon News & Information

BEFORE committing to buying a permanent home in Spain, many movers prefer to rent for a specific length of time to get a feel for life in their new country; this is also likely to be the go-to option for anyone planning...

PROPERTY prices, housing quality, healthcare and education, living costs and the job market are among the factors that determine where the happiest locations in Spain are, according to research by a leading national...

CITY life: Convenient and exciting, or busy and stressful, with great shopping and entertainment on the doorstep and excellent transport links, or noisy and polluted and full of traffic jams. For some people, their...

NATIONAL high-speed rail services are breaking into the north – the fast AVE train now runs from Madrid to the cathedral city of Burgos, via Valladolid.

HOMEBUYERS from abroad tend to head for coastal areas, large towns and cities, and tourism hotspots, depending upon their criteria - work, retirement, holidays, or eventually all three at different points in time.

INTERNATIONAL Book Day and Saint George's Day combined, with its huge street fair heaped with reading material and flowers across the whole of Catalunya, comes but once a year – so, if you missed the weekend's...

BRIGHT skies and warm weather may not have been our only reason for moving to Spain, or even have figured among our top 50 priority reasons, but they certainly help.

CLEAN AIR is an underrated commodity, but one that keeps rural tourism en vogue and goes hand in hand with the war on climate change – as well as CO2 and NOx emissions trapping heat into the earth's atmosphere,...

IF YOU had ancestors in the UK, Ireland, or the far north-eastern tip of the Americas over a millennium ago, you're probably a pirate.

THE WORLD'S oldest man has died just three weeks before his 113th birthday, leaving 14 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren, his family has confirmed.

FOR the second time in less than four years, Spain is home to the world's oldest man – Saturnino, who is 112-and-a-half, now holds the title after Emilio Flores from Puerto Rico passed away just over a week ago.

FORMER Spain football team captain and World Cup goalkeeper Iker Casillas is helping tackle a giant forest fire in Castilla y León and rake up withered scrubland to prevent flare-ups where it has not yet reached.