A WOMAN who claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of surrealist painter Salvador Dalí has been ordered to pay the full costs of the paternity suit – including exhuming the artist's body. Pilar Abel says she...
MANY of Spain's most famous museums will be free of charge to enter tomorrow (Thursday) for the October 12 national holiday, potentially saving tourists and day-trippers a fortune. As always, Madrid's 'big...
BEST-SELLING historical fiction writer Ken Follett told reporters in Madrid this week that he is 'not bothered about a Nobel Literature Prize' and is 'quite happy with his Maserati and champagne', and...
THE Spanish capital's main square right in the heart of the urban hub is celebrating its 400 anniversary this year – and thousands of internet surfers were stunned to see it had been turned into a giant grassy...
A WOMAN who believed she was the illegitimate daughter of surrealist painter Salvador Dalí has found out via the national press that the DNA samples did not match. But as neither she nor her lawyer have heard anything...
The Guggenheim museum in Bilbao has posted record visitor numbers in July and August with 322,247 people coming through the doors - 6,891 more than over the same period last year. According to their press release, 76%...
MADRID'S famous Reina Sofía art gallery will put up its ticket prices from €8 to €10 from Tuesday, September 5, its management has just announced. This is the second price increase in four years – back in...
FORMER bank manager and major shareholder Jaime Botín could face prison and a huge fine for allegedly 'smuggling' a €26-million Picasso painting out of Spain on his yacht two years ago. Botín, 81 – one...
THE latest Dan Brown novel to feature detective Robert Langdon will be set in three Spanish cities and is due on the shelves on October 5. , the fifth epic to feature the charismatic professor of religious symbolism,...
A JUDGE has ordered the body of surrealist painter Salvador Dalí to be exhumed following a paternity suit filed by a woman from Girona. María Pilar Abel Martínez, known as Pilar Abel, claims the artist behind the...
AN OIL-ON-CANVAS by famous Mediterranean painter Joaquín Sorolla will go under the hammer at Christie's in London next month for between €350,000 and €570,000, or between 300,000 and half a million pounds....
A BRITISH historian who was the first to write and publish books on the Spanish Civil War has died at home aged 85. Lord Hugh Thomas, who lived in London, was a celebrated historian specialising in Spain and, for the...
