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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...

MADRID'S Adolfo Suárez-Barajas airport has been named number one in Europe in terms of services, efficiency, complaints handling, and quality of its shops and restaurants, and Bilbao airport has come second.

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...

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.

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,...

CAPTAINS of Afghanistan's national wheelchair basketball women's and men's teams have landed at the military airport of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid region) to start a new life.

A THRILLING line-up of 'retro' bands and artists has been announced for the Bilbao BBK Festival – one of the biggest international dates on music-lovers' calendars and which should have been under way...

A 'QUALITY of life' survey among residents in Spain's biggest cities shows attitudes have changed since the start of the pandemic, according to national consumer organisation OCU, which conducted the...

NOT all towns in Spain are confined, with travel into and out of them banned for the next two weeks, but some regional governments have opted to do so as a precaution – although the Basque Country shutdown is the most...

DIG below the surface of the migration drama and an abundance of 'rags-to-riches' tales begin to come to light. Or not 'riches', necessarily – at least, only in comparative terms for desperate...

GOLFER Jon Rahm is only the second Spaniard in history to have reached world number one after the late, great Severiano Ballesteros – and he has achieved this at the tender age of 25.

THE BASQUE port city of Bilbao is the 'most sustainable' in Spain in terms of mobility – or has made the greatest efforts in providing clean transport facilities, according to Canadian environmental charity...