YOU might think you have walked into a scene out of a skateboard video. They call it Rebel Food, but the team at Ci Vediamo, quite frankly, cook some of the most classic food in Granada. Yes, there is plenty of creativity here too, but the simple dishes of young chef Stevie Silva are often […]
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WHEN 5,000 poor and middle-class families received free apartments outside Barcelona in 1974, it seemed the government of fascist dictator Francisco Franco was revolutionising Spain’s housing crisis. Not only did apartments have three or four bedrooms for larger families, but Ciudad Badia promised all its own shops and services and sports facilities that any parent
Apartment Pollensa / Pollença, Majorca 3 beds 2 baths € 320,000 This chic flat is located in an excellent location in Puerto Pollensa, in the north of the island of Mallorca. It has a total of three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a fully equipped kitchen with adjoining utility room. From the living area
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THE Iberian Lynx could soon be on the prowl in Murcia. An agreement has been reached between the Murcia regional government and the Junta de Andalucia to reintroduce the endangered Lynx to Lorca – a territory where it used to roam in large numbers until the activity of man drove it out. One million euros
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IF you are buying a Christmas wreath to hang on your door this festive season be careful it doesn’t turn into your funeral wreath. The Valencian Association of Consumers and Users has carried out its annual study on the decorative items and says not one of the 10 it examined passed its tests. It bought
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A NEW coin celebrating one of the most emblematic species in Spain, which was once on the brink of extinction, has been launched by Degussa. The piece is the first one featuring the Iberian lynx on a €1.5 coin. The announcement of the latest addition comes just days after World Lynx Day was marked on
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TRIBUTES have been paid to a woman and her 11-month old baby who were found murdered at a house in Cantabria on Friday (December 17). A man, 43, was arrested on suspicion of murder of his ex-partner and young daughter after the Guardia Civil were called to a property in Liaño de Villaescusa. The force
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THE prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case is to be charged with the rape of a young woman early next year. Christian Brueckner will be charged over the sex assault on an Irish girl, who was working on the Algarve. Hazel Behan had been violently raped in a horrific evening attack in Portimao, in
IT’S not hard to work out why the Sierra Nevada is often dubbed ‘southern Europe’s top skiing resort’. While you’ll be shivering in the Alps this week and it’s foggy in the Pyrenees, I’m eating lunch in bright sunshine near the top of Spain’s second highest mountain. It’s mid-December and the Sierra Nevada is usually
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IT is one of the most popular – and messiest – festivals in Spain. Each year thousands of people gather in the Valencian town of Buñol to pelt each other with squishy ripe tomatoes staining each other bright red from the fruit’s juices. But now people can experience the raucous event without getting so much
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