Culture/Art/Literature news & information for Spain

FOR THE second year running, Spain has taken home an Oscar – although not for the country's star 'Mr and Mrs', who were up for the top awards in completely different films.

VISITORS to and residents in Mijas can find out more about its 'secrets' in a series of multi-lingual guided tours.

A VILLAGE in southern Spain wants UNESCO intangible heritage status for its pavement chatter on summer evenings – residents parking their chairs outside their front door and having an al fresco chin-wag.

NOW THAT the Fallas are well under way, fiesta fans in the Comunidad Valenciana are not likely to let a little bit of rain stop them celebrating for the first time since March 2019.

A JEWELLER has revealed how the rock-sized emeralds General Franco gave his granddaughter for her wedding were 'just painted glass stuck together with egg-white'.

THREE years after it was last celebrated, the Comunidad Valenciana's giant March Fallas festival is back on, with massive, colourful papier-mâché monuments in every neighbourhood of almost every town within the...

COLLECTIVE lamentations resounded all the way from Andalucía's largest city the day before Christmas Eve 2020 – Sevilla's Feria de Abril, or 'April Fair', was to be called off for a second year on the...

A YOUNG girl with haunting, bright-green eyes who graced the cover of National Geographic in 1985 is instantly recognisable – and the photographer behind it is set to host an exhibition at Barcelona's FotoNostrum...

RESIDENTS of two towns in the far-western region of Extremadura were called upon to vote on Sunday whether they wanted to merge and become one bigger municipality.

IF YOU had ancestors in the UK, Ireland, or the far north-eastern tip of the Americas over a millennium ago, you're probably a pirate.

RESULTS for Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest are typically very disappointing – coming second from last or within the bottom five every year – which rarely reflects the quality of its entries or experience and...

IT'S NEARLY two months until the Oscars, with nominations for Spain's most famous off-screen acting couple, although it will have been 20 years since the country last took home a statuette – so film fans there...