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By Joy E. Glenn JANUARY in Spain is magical for children. The Cabalgata de Reyes is one of the most anticipated events of the year. Candy flying through the air, music filling the streets, children’s faces lit with excitement as…
THE Junta president should have been the most popular man in Sevilla when he turned up to the Pearl of Andalucia for the city’s traditional Three Kings parade. After all, Juanma Moreno was there to play Baltazar, one of the…
Whom should we choose as our heroes? John Wayne? Cristiano Ronaldo? Nigel Farage? Should we have heroes at all? MICHAEL COY introduces us to one of his own favourites, George Santayana, and celebrates the 162nd anniversary of the great man’s…
SPAIN will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after Israel was allowed to compete. Earlier this year, Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE said the country would boycott the next edition of the competition unless Israel was expelled over…
FIFTY years ago this week, Francisco Franco died and Spain’s transition to democracy finally began. But half a century on from his death, is the spectre of Spain’s diminutive dictator coming back to haunt its modern political arena? That may…
IT was one of the most pivotal events in world history unfolded—a moment whose 220th anniversary has just passed. The Battle of Trafalgar, fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of France and Spain on October 21,…
IT is in the heat of the summer, in mid July, when she finally makes an appearance. That is the Virgen del Carmen, the patron saint of fishermen in Spain. The beautiful wooden figurine is brought out from one of…
A CITY in northern Spain has temporarily banned the adoption of black cats from rescue shelters amid fears the felines could fall victim to ‘sinister’ Halloween rituals. Officials in Terrassa, Catalunya, have opted to prohibit the fostering of all black…
EVERYONE knows the story of Christopher Columbus – the man who sailed west and opened the door to the New World. But fewer know the darker twists of his life. This week marks 525 years since the world’s most famous…
WHEN we think of sixteenth-century explorers, Christopher Columbus typically comes to mind. The media love to celebrate the businessman from Genoa, who, in his day, was regarded as a failure, and who (technically) didn’t ‘discover’ America. Perhaps we’d be better…
