The remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco are being moved from a vast mausoleum to a low-key grave, 44 years after his elaborate funeral. Thursday’s long-awaited relocation fulfils a key pledge of the socialist government, which said Spain should not continue to glorify a fascist who ruled the country for …
At the Valley of the Fallen, enemies and allies alike were buried near Spain’s former dictator, Francisco Franco, whose remains are about to be moved. MADRID — The exhumation of Spain’s former dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco, expected in the coming week, will be “a great victory for Spanish democracy,” argues …
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The mayor of riot-stricken Barcelona pleaded Saturday for calm after violent protests by Catalan separatists rocked Spain’s second largest city for a fifth consecutive night. “This cannot continue. Barcelona does not deserve it,” Mayor Ada Colau told reporters, adding that Friday’s violence was the worst so …
The Dolmen of Guadalperal, also known as the treasure of Guadalperal by locals, has often been referred to as the ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ – a megalithic monument dating back to 2000 BC. Located in the town of Peraleda de la Mata in the region of Extremadura in central Spain, its residents …
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Riot police engaged in a running battle with angry protesters outside Barcelona’s airport Monday after Spain’s Supreme Court convicted 12 separatist leaders of illegally promoting the wealthy Catalonia region’s independence and sentenced nine of them to prison. Officers fired foam bullets and used batons against thousands …
Spain’s Supreme Court is expected to issue a verdict in the trial of Catalan separatist leaders over their role in an independence referendum in 2017. Spain has deployed more police in Catalonia, amid fears that a guilty ruling could spark more protests in the wealthy north-eastern region. The 12 politicians …
“We have the hotels here, open and waiting – but the customers can’t get here,” says Ramón Estalella, head of Spain’s leading hotelier association. The sudden collapse last month of one of Europe’s biggest travel groups, Thomas Cook, ruined the holidays of 600,000 stranded tourists. Hundreds of thousands more had …
Spanish capital to reduce number of brightly coloured birds over public health risk fears Madrid’s city council has grown sick of its parrots. Or, more precisely, of the thousands of shrill, bright green monk parakeets that screech through the capital’s skies and build vast nests in its trees. The council …
MILAN (AP) — A Botticelli portrait of a humanist poet that long hung in Madrid’s El Prado Museum is being offered this week for sale during London’s Frieze Masters art fair for $30 million. But a Spanish law on cultural treasures might create difficulties for a foreign buyer seeking to …
Spain’s Supreme Court is to decide whether the remains of dictator Francisco Franco should be exhumed. The Socialist government has made it a priority to move the remains from a state mausoleum to a less controversial site. Franco’s family has appealed against the exhumation. The issue has divided opinion in …
Spain faces its fourth election in four years “I’ve tried everything, but it was impossible.” So said Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s socialist prime minister (pictured), as time ran out this week on his efforts to put together a governing majority, thus almost certainly condemning Spaniards to vote again on November 10th in …
Sánchez has until next Monday to form government or election takes place on 10 November Spain is bracing for its fourth election in as many years as the deadline looms for the formation of a government following April’s inconclusive vote. Although the Spanish socialist party (PSOE), led by the acting prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, won …