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TOTAL BANKER: Billionaire handed €52.4 million fine after botched attempt at smuggling priceless Picasso painting out of Spain on yacht

Picasso completed Head of a Young Woman in his pre-Cubist phase, with the painting snapped up by Botin in London in 1977

17 Jan, 2020 @ 10:31

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead

REVEALED: Spain’s three best-selling Christmas caganers, and no it’s not Boris Johnson or Greta Thunberg!

A typical caganer figurine these days features a celebrity hunched over to do their business

15 Jan, 2020 @ 19:15

Barcelona·La Cultura·Lead

BREAKING: Spain’s Pedro Almodovar and Antonio Banderas BOTH nominated for Oscar for film Dolor y Gloria

PEDRO Almodovar and Antonio Banderas have both been nominated for an Oscar for the iconic director’s film Dolor y Gloria. The film is nominated in

13 Jan, 2020 @ 14:37

La Cultura·Lead

Gibraltar International Chess Festival returns to Rock

GIBRALTAR will be welcoming some of the top chess players in the world to an open tournament in January.

12 Jan, 2020 @ 09:00

Gibraltar·La Cultura·Lead·Travel News

‘Titanic’ prize in special raffle for exhibition visitors to Spain’s Murcia

A FASCINATING exhibition on the world’s most famous sunken ship has opened in Murcia. On display will be items of memorabilia from the fabled ship,

11 Jan, 2020 @ 18:00

Costa Blanca·La Cultura·Lead

Dia de los Reyes Magos may be over, but there are so many cool events still to come in Mallorca

WHILE the Reyes revelries are only just over, TWO of Mallorca’s biggest fiestas are set to keep the festive feeling going through the gloomy month

11 Jan, 2020 @ 12:00

La Cultura·Lead·Mallorca

WATCH: Olive Press TV visits the world-famous Cavalcade of the Three Kings in Alcoy on Spain’s Costa Blanca

8 Jan, 2020 @ 19:48

Costa Blanca·La Cultura·Lead

Expat historian Ian Gibson lends weight to new push for search for Spain’s famous murdered poet Federico Garcia Lorca

The other two Republicans killed alongside Lorca were bullfighters Francisco Galadí and Joaquín Arcollas

8 Jan, 2020 @ 14:40

Granada·La Cultura·Lead

Bullring in Spain’s Andalucia offers bullfighting workshops to children THIS WEEKEND

Only 29% of the population support bullfighting, and three quarters of the population have not attended a fight in the past five years

2 Jan, 2020 @ 14:52

Cordoba·La Cultura·Lead

British man arrested after ‘ripping’ €23.5 million Picasso painting depicting Spanish artist’s lover Dora Maar

Malaga-born Pablo Picasso created the piece, which portrays his lover Dora Maar in Nazi-occupied Paris

1 Jan, 2020 @ 17:30

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead·National News

Oscar-winning British actor Jeremy Irons in Spain to present his new documentary about Madrid’s Prado Museum

He is presenting the documentary, Painters and Kings of the Prado

28 Dec, 2019 @ 13:48

La Cultura·Lead

FOREIGNER: The Spanish film about a British tourist, an expat and a boat full of illegal migrants, is up for a Goya award

The shocking series of events slowly unravel as Mark (played by Josh Taylor) goes out with an old friend on his speedboat into the shimmering

28 Dec, 2019 @ 13:14

Cadiz·La Cultura·Lead·Malaga

The joys of Christmas in Spain include a twist on carols and likely clear skies… but beware of the free minibars, warns Karethe Linaae

Every Christmas when I was young, my mother would bring out her scratched Bing Crosby record and we knew the festive season had arrived

26 Dec, 2019 @ 08:21

La Cultura·Malaga

Festive fun and free food at Costa Blanca feria, hundreds involved

FORMENTERA del Segura celebrated its local food and culture at the town’s 11th annual Christmas market, earlier this month. The Mari Luz Dance School performed

24 Dec, 2019 @ 08:07

Costa Blanca·Food & Drink·La Cultura

The best holiday exhibitions in Spain and around the world

Holidays are the perfect time for all things festive. In the last couple of years, the holiday exhibitions have become a staple in every major

23 Dec, 2019 @ 14:54

La Cultura

Rebel Spanish priest shocks Catholic traditionalists by opening his Madrid church to the homeless this Christmas, writes Heather Galloway

He has been criticised for mingling with celebrities and giving homosexual couples his blessing

23 Dec, 2019 @ 08:00

La Cultura·Lead

Lionel Richie to perform on Spain’s Costa del Sol in 2020

The US singer-songwriter is one of the first big names to be announced for Marbella's annual summer Starlite festival

15 Dec, 2019 @ 12:16

La Cultura·Lead·Malaga

Spanish bishop wins court case against Catalan bishop who ‘nicked his art’

The ruling comes after a decade spanning legal battle between the two dioceses, which began in 1998

14 Dec, 2019 @ 09:34

La Cultura·Lead

Mariah Carey thanks Malaga for Christmas lights homage as mayor invites singer to visit Spain’s Costa del Sol

MARIAH Carey has voiced her appreciation for being included in Malaga’s Christmas lights show. The American songstress tweeted a thank you message after being alerted

10 Dec, 2019 @ 08:03

Celebrity·La Cultura·Lead·Malaga

In a new monthly column on the trials of learning Spanish, Charlie Smith makes a lasting impression on his first profesora

By the time Spanish hit the school, I had already scraped a C in GCSE French and vowed never to learn a language again

8 Dec, 2019 @ 13:16

La Cultura·Malaga

Spain’s Costa del Sol treated to new exhibition by genius American photographer Lee Miller

A nude body bent over in silhouette becoming unidentifiable, a man wearing a bowler hat and a pyramid’s shadow on the sand...

8 Dec, 2019 @ 08:02

La Cultura·Lead·Malaga

Cave painting thought to be 5,000 years old found in Spanish cave

It comes after the discovery of what has been dubbed the ‘Spanish Stonehenge’ in Extremadura this summer

7 Dec, 2019 @ 17:59

La Cultura·Lead

GRAPHIC: Vandals attack metal sculptures depicting shocking ‘sex acts’ in full view of ‘children’ on popular Costa Blanca beachfront

VANDALS have disfigured a series of metal sculptures depicting shocking ‘sexual acts’ on Altea’s Costa Blanca beachfront. At least three of the 26 installments by

3 Dec, 2019 @ 17:48

Costa Blanca·La Cultura·Lead

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Inbreeding between ‘uncle and niece’ caused facial deformity of Spain’s 17th century King Carlos II, new study says

INBREEDING between ‘uncle and niece’ caused the striking facial deformity of Spain’s 17th century King Carlos II, a new study has revealed. The parents of

2 Dec, 2019 @ 12:50

La Cultura·Lead·Other News

Fake women’s magazine containing domestic violence advice so ‘abusive partners won’t find out’ saves 24 women in Denia

THE crimped skirts, green smoothies and exercise tips look like the pages of any glossy women’s magazine. But read closer, and all is not what

27 Nov, 2019 @ 14:11

Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead

Alicante conquers eastern Spain with 16 STARS in the Michelin Guide Spain & Portugal 2020 – find a restaurant near you

ALICANTE has been crowned the gastronomy king of the Comunidad Valenciana with 16 Michelin stars. The province outshone Castellón and Valencia – which bagged two

25 Nov, 2019 @ 18:08

Costa Blanca·Food & Drink·La Cultura·Lead

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