A PAINSTAKING 50,000 hours of restoration work on the La Gloria portico at Santiago de Compostela cathedral has been unveiled and visitors will finally get to see the intricate archway without its scaffolding for the...
NOBEL Prize-winning author and former presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa has been admitted to hospital after a fall at his home in Madrid. The 82-year-old Peruvian had not long returned home from the island of La...
BRITISH architect Norman Foster is behind plans to extend Madrid's iconic El Prado art museum, one of the capital's 'big three' along with the Reina Sofía and the Thyssen-Bornemizsa. Foster &...
A DOLL which 'survived' the and was recovered from the sea bed 65 years later is up for auction again, her current owner has revealed. Only the head remains of passenger Eva Hart's favourite doll, whom she...
AN OPERA based upon the bizarre tale of an elderly lady's botched restoration of a 19th-century has been aired in Arizona ahead of its world première. Cecilia Giménez was 81 when, in 2012, she decided to restore...
A LATE-ERA Picasso painting was bought online by 25,000 individuals before being put on display in a Swiss museum. The 1968 (pictured) has just been set up at Geneva's MAMCO museum, six months after its sale in what...
BRITISH-BORN Spanish Film Academy chairwoman Yvonne Blake will not return to her role following her stroke in January, and the job is likely to go to her current second-in-command. Celebrated costume designer Ms Blake,...
BRITISH historian Mary Beard visited Barcelona during Sant Jordi for the first time yesterday (Monday), and said the massive patron saint fair was 'just fantastic'. The Princess of Asturias Humanities Award...
ONE OF Spain's most iconic Civil War protest paintings may not be about the Civil War at all, according to an art history expert: Pablo Picasso's may have been universally misunderstood for the last 81 years,...
A SUNKEN galleon full of gold coins and precious stones which both Spain and Colombia claim ownership of would cost €57.2 million to bring to the surface, according to a recent estimate. The was famously shot down by...
BRITAIN'S ministry of culture has blocked the export of one of Salvador Dalí's 'lobster telephones', insisting the piece remains in the country due to its 'close historical ties'. The artistic...
STORMS on the Andalucía coast have uncovered a Roman aqueduct and the remains of a road thought to have been built up to 500 years ago. Crowds were seen gathered on La Cortadura beach in Cádiz, which attracted the...
