Andalucia News & Information

A TRILINGUAL school in a Costa del Sol town will be open to pupils by next September, part-funded by a loan from the European urban development pot, or FEDER.

A LOTTERY shop on the Costa del Sol is urgently seeking the owner of a ticket worth nearly €78 million.

ASTROPHYSICISTS in Spain have discovered two new planetary systems circulating around red dwarf stars, made up of 'Earths' and 'Super-Earths'.

A PICTURE of a woman turning up for her Covid vaccine in the Huelva-province village of Lepe has gone viral due to her unusual mode of transport – or rather, a mode that was once very typical, but has not now been...

MADRID and Barcelona jointly 'lost' 60,000 inhabitants in 2020, whilst the provinces of Valencia and Sevilla saw a significant rise as city-dwellers rethought their life plans during the long months of...

NAMES of Europe's 150 best restaurants have been released – and Spain hogs half the list.

ALMOST anyone not heading for Spain this summer would be a lot happier if they were in it, and the town in question is probably academic – and although those who already live here year-round are entitled to be...

THE POP duo behind the iconic 1993 hit La Macarena have admitted Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a huge fan of theirs – and gatecrashed a live concert they gave for Pope John Paul II.

ANDALUCÍA has just acquired another National Park – a status that could dramatically increase tourism income and job creation, vital in the holiday industry's post-pandemic recovery.

SOMETIMES it really feels as though Spain is the part of the world where the Arctic and the tropics collide. Humid summers with temperatures pushing 40ºC, cacti and yucca growing wild, a country which harvests its own...

AMBITIOUS plans for extending and upgrading the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella are afoot, and the job – worth €75 million – will be put out to tender this summer.

THERE'S no such thing as too many flowers – at least, Estepona doesn't think so, although it has decided to stop at around 400,000 just in case.