Month: April 2023

A newborn has been found dead inside a backpack by Policia Nacional officers in Sevilla.  The baby’s mother, who is aged 38 and has a degree of disability, has been taken into custody.  She has allegedly given conflicted versions about what happened.  The woman is believed to have gone to the hospital with her mother […]

WITH THEIR arms raised in fascist salutes, around 200 people paid homage on Saturday to the founder of Spain’s Falange party, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, in his new burial site in the San Isidro cemetery in Madrid.  Primo de Rivera’s remains were moved last week from the Valley of the Fallen monument, where they […]

IT’S a small area of around six or seven streets – or approximately a kilometre squared – but it encompasses over half of Marbella’s best places to eat. Let’s call it SORI (South of Ricardo Soriano), this is a nucleus of a dozen or so excellent places for a tapa – or a full gourmand […]

Alhaurín de la Torre, Málaga   5 beds   3 baths € 493,500 Nice villa on one floor located in Romeral with a plot of 707 m2, swimming pool (depth 1.50 – 1.80), patio with covered barbecue and dining room, solar panels (water), two covered parking spaces. The villa has: 5 bedrooms with fitted wardrobes, […]

IF YOU didn’t know already, this weekend will last three days, thanks to International Workers’ Day falling on May 1.  That means a bank holiday, or festivo, across the whole of Spain. And this is also the last long weekend that Spaniards will enjoy ahead of the summer.  The next national bank holiday will be […]

SPAIN’S disgraced former king Juan Carlos I has publicly denied press reports published this week claiming that he has a secret daughter. The self-styled emeritus king, who is notorious for his alleged extra-marital affairs and financial dealings, made a statement to Spanish news agency EFE in which he ‘rejected and condemned as false’ the claims […]

HUMANS have been visiting the Nerja Caves for 41,000 years, a new study by a team from the University of Cordoba has revealed. Throughout its history, and even today, the Nerja Caves continue to stun visitors and researchers from around the world. In fact, the iconic series of caverns close to the town of Nerja […]

Robbie Williams will play a guaranteed sold out show at Fuengirola’s Mare Nostrum Auditorium on June 15.  The iconic artist, behind Angels and Let me Entertain You, will sing to 2,300 fans in the biggest concert since the pandemic.  Williams, 49, started in the music industry over 30 years ago, and has had 14 UK […]

WITH 27% of Spain currently either in a drought ‘emergency’ or ‘alert’, record temperatures being registered for the month of April, and an ongoing row between Andalucia and Madrid over the Doñana wetlands, there is one topic on politicians’ and Spaniards lips as we enter May: water.  Spain’s Agriculture Minister Luis Planas wrote to the […]