Madrid cancels city centre sheep herding tradition to avoid bluetongue spread
The regional government in Madrid has cancelled the traditional annual herding of flocks of sheep through the centre of the Spanish capital which was scheduled...
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Bullfighting documentary wins top prize at San Sebastian Film Festival
A documentary about bullfighting, ‘Tardes de Soledad’ (‘Afternoons of Solitude’), has picked up the top award at the San Sebastián Film Festival, its graphic nature...
Pedro Almodóvar wins lifetime achievement award at San Sebastian Festival
Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar received a lifetime achievement Donostia Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival on Thursday, getting emotional as he was given...
Spain submits ‘Saturn Return’ for best international film category at Oscars
Spain has chosen the film ‘Saturn Return’ by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez as its submission for Best International Feature Film category at the 97th...
Almodóvar’s first English-language feature wins top prize in Venice
#UPDATED at 13h on 8 September. Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’, the Spanish director’s first film in English, has won the Golden Lion, the...
Pedro Almodóvar to receive 2024 San Sebastian Donostia Career Achievement Award
Spain’s most internationally famous film director, screenwriter and producer, Pedro Almodóvar, is to receive a Donostia Career Achievement Award at the prestigious 72nd San Sebastian Film...
The ‘lost Caravaggio’ goes on display at the Prado museum in Madrid
A painting by the Italian master Caravaggio, once mistakenly thought to be by an unknown artist and almost auctioned off, has gone on display at...
Spanish police recover 4th of five Francis Bacon paintings stolen in Madrid in 2015
Spain’s National Police have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015. A...
Prado Museum confirms rediscovery of lost Caravaggio, to be unveiled 27 May
A painting whose auction in Spain was halted in 2021 on suspicion that it might be a long lost Caravaggio has been confirmed as a work...
Catalan police dismantle syndicate that allegedly sold fake Banksy art
Police in Catalonia, the Mossos d’Esquadra, said on Thursday that they had dismantled a ring which allegedly falsified works by British street artist Banksy, and...
