Pope blesses Sagrada Familia’s Tower of Jesus after visits to prison and Montserrat
Pope Leo XIV inaugurated the newest and tallest spire of Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia on Wednesday, blessing the Tower of Jesus Christ and helping cement Antoni...
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Plans to extend Bilbao Guggenheim near to protected nature reserve dropped
Plans to expand the Guggenheim Museum from the northern Spanish city of Bilbao into a nearby protected nature reserve have been abandoned following sustained opposition...
Firefighters struggle to contain blaze near Roman-era heritage site in Castilla y León
Firefighters in the region of Castilla y León, northwestern Spain, worked tirelessly on Monday to control a wildfire that damaged a Roman-era mining site and...
Córdoba’s landmark mosque-cathedral La Mezquita ‘saved’ after fire extinguished
A fire broke that out on Friday evening at the famed mosque-turned-cathedral, ‘La Mezquita’ in Córdoba (Andalusia) – but the landmark was spared thanks to...
Oldest known partial face fossil of human ancestor in Western Europe found in northern Spain
Western Europe has a new contender for its oldest known human relative. Spanish scientists revealed on Wednesday that facial bones belonging to an individual nicknamed...
Andalusia seeks €90m from Swedish mining group for toxic spill 25 years ago
Twenty five years after one of Spain’s worst ecological disasters, a court case against the Swedish mining company involved opened on Tuesday in the southern...
Ukrainian art on display at Madrid museum after defying Russian bombs
Many modern artworks removed from Kyiv to protect them from Russian bombs – that have already done huge damage to Ukraine’s cultural heritage – have gone...
Oldest European fossil of human ancestor from 1.4 million years ago found in Spain
A jawbone fragment discovered in a mountain range in the region of Castilla y León in northern Spain could be the oldest known fossil of...
Madrid’s Retiro Park and Paseo del Prado added to UNESCO World Heritage List
Madrid’s Retiro Park and the adjacent Paseo del Prado have been added to the UNESCO’s World Heritage List and is the first time that sites...
Barça’s Camp Nou and Gaudí’s Sagrada Família could become vaccination centres
Latest: Coronavirus in Spain figures (25 Feb) FC Barcelona’s giant Camp Nou stadium, as well as Gaudí’s Sagrada Família cathedral in Barcelona, in addition to other ’emblematic’ landmarks,...
