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Spanish town set to spend subsidy on books instead of bullfights
In the small Spanish town of Villafranca de los Caballeros, bulls are taking a back seat to books. For more than a decade, the small town 80 miles south of Madrid has celebrated its local fiesta with a bullfight. But the tradition could end this year, after the council said it would direct its annual subsidy for the bullfight towards books and school supplies for the town’s students.
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Olive Oil Prices Surge Due to Drought and Disease in Spain and Italy
Producers say this year’s harvests are worst they have seen, as consumer demand begins to outstrip supply
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1st August 1498 - Columbus lands in South America
Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets foot on the American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela. Thinking it an island, he christened it Isla Santa and claimed it for Spain.
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Spain PM urges high turnout in Catalan poll to counter separatists
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Tuesday urged a big turnout in a regional election in Catalonia next month to counter separatists who want to turn the election into a vote on independence.
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Spain Wildfire Forces More Evacuations
A wildfire that officials suspect was started deliberately forced the evacuation of a third town in western Spain today, officials said.
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Spain: Abandoned villages up for sale in Galicia as population plummets
Around 400 villages are up for sale in Spain's northern Galicia, some of which are being offered for free. The villages come with verdant settings, including bread-making hearths, barns and stone and wood granaries used until a decade ago, when the villages had a decent population. "This is as near as paradise as I can think of," says Mark Adkinson, who founded the Galician Country Homes real estate firm and has recently begun marketing abandoned villages.
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First victim of Spain's 'gag law' fined for criticising 'lazy' police
The first known individual to fall foul of Spain’s controversial new “gag law” has spoken out against what he sees as the repression of free speech after he received a fine for describing his local police force as "slackers" on Facebook. Eduardo Díaz, a 27-year-old salesman from Tenerife, told the newspaper El Mundo that the comment he posted on his mayor’s Facebook page about the decision to provide the local police force with a new and larger headquarters was “just a criticism...
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Spanish woman fined for posting picture of police parked in disabled bay
Unnamed woman from Alicante ordered to pay €800 under controversial gagging law for posting photo on her Facebook page
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Minimal Holiday House In Ibiza By Ramon Esteve
Designed by Spanish architecture firm Ramon Esteve Estudio, 'Na Xemena House' is a minimal holiday home located in Ibiza with panoramic views of the Mediterranean Sea. Through simple geometric forms and bare white facades, the building was created to capture natural light and integrate harmoniously into the surrounding natural landscape of cliffs and sea. The house is also equipped with an infinity pool that is supposed to evoke a "sensation that you are bathing in the sea".
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Watch: A 1-Minute Video Shows The Completion Of Gaudí's Sagrada Família
A new video imagines what the Barcelona's Sagrada Família will look like when it's finished in 2026.
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Catalonia’s separatists: ‘The Spanish state has failed. We can change this’
Separatist leader Raül Romeva is turning elections into a de facto referendum on breaking away from Spain
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Earthprints: Andasol Solar Power Station
On a barren, sun-baked plateau in southern Spain, row upon row of gleaming mirrors form one of the world's biggest solar power plants and harness the sun's power even after dark.
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Spain's Princess Cristina to stand trial on tax fraud charges
Spain’s Princess Cristina is to stand trial on charges of tax fraud in January, in an unprecedented court appearance that will see her become the first member of the royal family in the dock. Cristina, the 50-year-old sister of King Felipe VI, was formally charged late last year, following a four-year investigation into the affairs of her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, who faces charges for fraud, falsifying documents and embezzlement.
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'Nothing to celebrate': leftists in Spain lash out at Columbus Day celebrations
Barcelona mayor joins other leftist officials in decrying holiday that honours Columbus’s arrival in the New World: ‘Shame that a nation celebrates genocide’ As King Felipe presided over a military parade to celebrate Spain’s National Day, several of the country’s new crop of leftist mayors took aim at the origins of the holiday, siding with a growing movement that questions the commemoration of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World.
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Why is Ford's hi-tech factory using ostrich feathers?
The BBC takes a look at Ford's new hi-tech 'mega factory' in Valencia, Spain - one of the world’s most advanced and productive car plants.
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It was Spain’s ‘national fiesta’. Now bullfighting divides its people
In the Spanish heartlands, fans and protesters present a portrait of a tradition under threat
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Catalonia independence: Parliament votes to start secession from Spain - BBC News
The Spanish region of Catalonia adopts a resolution supporting independence from Spain, but Spain's PM says his government will challenge it.
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133 Years Later, Gaudí’s Cathedral Nears Completion
The fantastical Sagrada Família in Barcelona has entered the final stage of construction.
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Catalan leader struggles to keep his job
Artur Mas fails to convince junior partner to back him. By Hans von der Burchard.
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Western Sahara dossier still pending at UN 40 years later
The Sahrawi question was indeed one that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was faced with -albeit unexpectedly- during his visit to former colonial power Spain over the last week. As Ban visited Segovia, that city's Association of Friends of the Sahrawi People gave a letter to the South Koran diplomat which echoed the claims of the Sahrawi movement, according to local media El Norte de Castilla and Radio Segovia.
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