Girona News & Information

EXPATS and permanent foreign residents in Spain, as well as holiday home owners from abroad, often appear to be clustered around very specific areas – typically on the coast.

BRAM Stoker's terrifying fictional Count from Transylvania might not have been the first undead human parasite in popular culture, but is certainly the most famous worldwide – and is credited with having started a...

ONE THING is for everyone who visits your town, province or country to tell everyone else how wonderful it is and to give it lots of stars on TripAdvisor, but quite another is when the European Union itself endorses a...

IN A NON-COVID year, you can take your pick from about 800 music festivals in Spain – in some of which, the music is only part of a packed programme of completely unrelated activities that might even include yoga...

IT'S NOT all sunning yourself by the sea during your sixth-form summer holidays when you're going to be Queen – sometimes you have to spend your down-time going to work. And in full public view, too, knowing...

A MEGA music revival is set to hit Spain this summer as the backlog of live concerts the pandemic put paid to joins a list of those already scheduled for 2022.

SET A TOURIST to catch a tourist is, in these days of social media and online reviews, a holiday destination's best marketing strategy – although a few million euros' worth of publicity helps, too.

A PERFECTLY-PRESERVED Mediaeval castle close to the Costa Brava is up for sale, and could be yours for a mere €11 million.

A 'HOMEMADE' vaccine against Covid-19 is getting closer to being launched, and is effective against all known current strains of the Coronavirus, according to an update on the eagerly-awaited formula this week.

MORE motorways are set to become toll-free starting from September, now that their franchises have expired and the State has taken on funding and maintenance.

A FIRST phase of clinical trials for a Covid vaccine created entirely in Spain has been authorised, and if all goes according to plan, the formula could be in use by between January and March next year.

BARCELONA'S El Prat airport is about to get bigger: Expansion plans costing €1.7 billion are afoot, turning it into a major long-haul international terminal with a high-speed rail connection.