Post-Brexit and Covid, is the toughest transition still to come for Brits on the Costas?
Covid travel restrictions explain the current eerie atmosphere in towns on the Costas of southern Spain, but will the impact of Brexit prolong the ghost...
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Hunting of Iberian wolves now banned throughout Spain – yet farmers protest
Spain’s Environment Ministry has ruled that protection for wolves in the south of the country will now extend north of the Duero river, where controlled hunting...
Foreign tourism in Spain fell by 80% in 2020 – the lowest figure since 1969
Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (22 Feb) The number of foreign tourists who visited Spain during 2020 fell by over 80% to 19 million, the...
Construction resumes on the Sagrada Familia – yet fall in tourism revenue delays completion date
After an eight-month hiatus, workers have returned to the task of completing Antoni Gaudí’s acclaimed temple, the Sagrada Familia. Forced to close its door to...
EU leaders ‘strongly discourage’ travel, warning of tighter border controls
Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (9 Feb) European Union leaders meeting via video link on Thursday ‘strongly discouraged’ citizens from non-essential travel and warned that tighter restrictions...
From 15-M to Podemos on the ‘Sobremesa Podcast’
As part of our aim to offer a wide range of diverse and on-going content to our readers, in addition to daily news, we will...
The Age of Cooperation – women leaders reshaping the world in the face of a pandemic
In April 2020, almost two months into an unprecedented global lockdown triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, a TikTok video showing British National Health Service (NHS)...
61 graves from Spanish Civil War uncovered in Móra d’Ebre in Catalonia
The Catalan government’s Department of Justice, in collaboration with the ‘Democratic Memory’ department, have located 61 graves on the grounds of an old country house,...
British residents in Spain barred from flying home from UK
Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (22 Jan) A number of British residents in Spain have been stopped from boarding flights back to Madrid from the...
Spain to reinforce PCR checks, as other countries suspend flights from UK
Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (11 Jan) Spain is to reinforce checks for proof of negative PCR tests on all travellers arriving at airports and...
