Madrid News & Information

MADRID ground to a halt yesterday (Tuesday) with traffic jams building up in a central street which was down to one lane – for much more unusual reasons than roadworks or rush hour.

MADRID'S huge IFEMA exhibition centre is set to be expanded into the next town with three new pavilions at a cost of €180 million.

CHILDREN, teens and young adults across Spain have been going back to school and college this week, and parents digging deep in their pockets to find the cash for textbooks and notebooks – which pupils are required to...

ROCK fans, take note: The official Pink Floyd exhibition is in Madrid until October 27, having been extended by popular request.

SINGER Taylor Swift will be the next celebrity to have a statue on display at the Madrid Waxworks Museum – a tourist attraction that has always tried hard to be the next Madame Tussaud's.

HUNDREDS of shoppers spent up to two nights camped outside the first-ever European branch of Chinese technology giant AliExpress before it opened yesterday (Sunday) morning in Madrid, in a bid to be first through the...

A CON ARTIST'S lack of knowledge of Spain's geography blew his cover at Atocha station and saved a group of tourists from parting with unnecessary cash.

NEUROSCIENTISTS have discovered a protein in the brain which could be the main cause of Alzheimer's, and which they may one day be able to inhibit in order to slow down or halt the disease.

LEGENDARY tenor Plácido Domingo is one of 12 famous faces to win an 'Excellence in Spain' Award – at the same time as being named ambassador for the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).

ONLINE retail giant Amazon needs 200 new employees for its Kindle technological development team in Madrid.

PENSIONERS who headed up the weekend's Gay Pride march in Madrid recall how far Spain has come in protecting their rights – and many say they attended the first-ever Pride festival in the capital 41 years ago when...

A HUGE demonstration in support of keeping Madrid city centre traffic-free to cut air pollution is due to set off tomorrow (Saturday) at 19.00 from the Callao district as far as the Cibeles fountain roundabout, where...