Spain

A chance encounter with a group of dancers shows the surprising origins of a very English tradition

Even inside his own monogrammed funeral casket the writer of Don Quixote remains an enigma

Once the way Extremaduran families got their annual supply of meat, these days the traditional pig slaughter is a big day out

Not for the first time in recent history, Barcelona is playing beautifully while living on bank loans that almost defy financial gravity

The water shortage in Extremadura is becoming critical, writes PETER BARRON

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Even in the least promising surroundings, nature and commerce tend to find a way. Unique wine-making is one element of Lanzarote’s extraordinary rebirth from the ashes

It was submerged in 1922 as part of a plan to build a new reservoir. Now, after a historic drought, it returns

Posturing over Northern Ireland threatens the Rock’s status – and its neighbour is eager to take advantage

Catalans Dragons return to action with their eyes on going one step further than last season

According to newspaper Il Giornale, the case symbolises a giant clogging of the country's judicial system.

The Spanish festival has returned only to be met with condemnation from animal rights groups.

Why have we forgotten about the moral case for tighter Covid restrictions? Asks one reader.

A legal bid by McDonald’s to build a drive-through in close proximity to some ruins in Rome has been ended by Italy's highest court.

Liz Truss, Yolanda Díaz, Valérie Pécresse, Mamata Banerjee, Andrew Bailey. Just some of the names we think will make the headlines in the next 12 months ... for better or worse

Planting oaks preserve Spain's traditional landscape - and the planet.

The Spanish earth groans with horrors a modern mind struggles to comprehend, yet which were buried there within the lifetimes of our grandparents.

Philosopher NIGEL WARBUTON on the link between those who are cruel to animals and violence against humans.

Janus Boye, a Social Democrat in Denmark, has earned himself a new nickname after the sun faded out the first and last letters of his name on a poster.

PETER BARRON on his visit to Spain’s largest livestock fair, now in its 568th year.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Pictures emerged showing the winner posing with other models in the colours of the opposition.

PETER BARRON on a night spent at a monastery, where he met one of Spain’s most revered figures

Can the rise in intolerance in Europe be attributed to dog-whistle politics, or is there more to it?

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers a recipe from a Michelin star chef, known for her Galician dishes

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Amid the bloodshed of the 20th century, it remains all but forgotten. But what became known as the Disaster of Annual, 100 years ago this summer, shaped Spain’s traumatic century.

EMMA LUCK on how tax breaks, pandemic management and ambitious studio plans are helping Spain film its way to recovery in the shadow of Covid-10.

PETER BARRON on the joys of renovating a crumbling barn in rural Extremadura... during the pandemic... while more than a thousand miles away

In his latest diary from Extremadura, PETER BARRON describes the village next door which first lured him to Spain

Dotted along the north west coast of Africa, the residue of Spanish empire – two sizeable cities – lies at the heart of a summer of high tension Monte Hacho, the hill that rises above the Spanish city of Ceuta on the North African coast, is often cited as one of the Pillars of Hercules […]