July 2021

Spain COVID-19: Now 20-29 year olds can get vaccine if they live in Valencia

THE VALENCIAN Community has been contacting 20-29 year-olds to offer vaccination appointments. People in those age groups are being urged to get vaccinated amid a spike in infections and fears over how quickly the Indian variant of the virus might spread. More than 105,000 doses will be allocated to those aged between 20-29 from Monday. 

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DRAMATIC BLAZE IN SPAIN: Over 100 firefighters battle to contain wildfires ripping through Tarragona

MORE than 100 firefighters are tackling raging forest fires in Tarragona in the north east of Spain.  The blaze, which has ripped through the municipalities of Bellprat, Les Piles and Santa Coloma de Queralt, began in the early hours of Saturday morning.  Overnight, 270 firemen worked around the clock to manage the flames and 12 aircrafts

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How Spain’s Valencia region has become a coastal paradise for wine lovers

VALENCIA is a coastal paradise for wine fans. Like lots of places in Spain, winemaking in Valencia has historic roots that go back centuries – as far back as the Phoenicians in fact, who introduced wine to the region somewhere between 4,000 and 3,000 BC. But curiously for such a tourist-focused region with a focus

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Power cut in Spain: Thousands of homes affected in Catalunya, Murcia, Madrid and more

A MAJOR cut left thousands of homes in Spain without electricity. Large parts of the country were impacted by the cut at around 4.30pm on Saturday, with multiple regions suffering from the power outage.  ?? Manca de subministrament elèctric d’abast global segons informa @Endesa Hi ha prop de 640.000 abonats afectats No hi ha previsió

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Power cuts: Electrical blackout in more than a million homes across Spain after plane hit supply cable

 A POWER outage stuck across Spain leaving more than a million homes without electricity for an hour on Saturday afternoon. The black-out was blamed on a seaplane damaging a high voltage line in France which triggered a power outage across many parts of Spain including the Basque Country, Catalonia, Navarra and even to towns in

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Family of Esther Dingley face agonising wait for DNA comparison and dental record check on skull found on Pyrenees mountain path

THE mother of Esther Dingley, the British hiker who disappeared in Pyrenees last November, faces an agonising wait while police analyse bones found on a mountain pass at the border between France and Spain last week. Police have requested a DNA sample from Ria Bryant, 74, the mother of the missing woman, and have asked

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Madrid plans ‘urban forest’ to reduce pollution and combat climate change

MADRID has unveiled plans to create a ‘green belt’ of forest around Spain’s capital in a bid to combat climate change and reduce pollution. The project involves transforming disused areas between roads and buildings by planting more than half a million trees to create a 75km long urban forest. The trees will be chosen from

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Xacobeo: Why this year (and next) is an extra special time to visit Spain’s Santiago de Compostela

By Shannon Chaffers THROUGHOUT this year and into the next, Christians from all over the world will flock to Santiago de Compostela in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain to celebrate the Xacobeo Year for the first time in eleven years.   The Xacobeo Year (also known as Jacobean Year or Jubilee Year) only

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