WHEN Spain’s peak summer temperatures start nudging 40 in parts of the country, visiting a cool, dark, damp cave sounds pretty good. The fact these hidden tourist sites are also atmospheric and spectacular is a bonus. Sometimes the attractions are man made: The cave paintings in the Cave of Altamira, near Santillana del Mar in […]
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Apartment Guardamar del Segura, Alicante 2 beds 1 baths € 149,000 We are pleased to offer this ground floor apartment for sale Pinar de Guardamar, located a short walk to the blue flag beaches of Guardamar del Segura.Ideally situated in this quiet and yet popular urbanisation (Pinar de Guardamar); a complex that is
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THE man had 700 wives and 300 concubines. He also had a personal army of 12,000 and a fleet of ships. But most notably, he had a penchant for building opulent palaces and temples. He obsessively embellished his building projects with lavish gold, silver, diamond and copper ornamentation. That man was the Old Testament’s legendary
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BUILT on the site of a fifth-century Visigoth basilica, the Almonaster Mosque in Huelva, is one of few surviving rural mosques in Spain, considered the best preserved in Spain and one of the best in Europe. This beautifully-preserved mezquita, built in the 9th and 10th centuries during the reign of Abd al-Rahman III, sits in the
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POLICE has arrested seven people from Sevilla for allegedly scamming companies and freelancers using the technique “man in the middle”. This technique is described as a cyberattack where scammers alter the communication between two people who believe that they are directly communicating with each other. Seven people arrested and two million euros scammed by cybercriminals
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ONE person killed themselves every 14 hours in Andalucia during 2020, according to the Junta. Some 793 people died as a consequence of suicide in the region in that year, making it the second biggest cause of death for 15 to 25-year-olds. And for every person who takes their own life, there are 20 who
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Apartment Nerja, Málaga 1 beds 1 baths € 195,000 South-facing one-bedroom apartment in popular Capistrano Village Exclusive with HusmanHagberg. Here is an opportunity to acquire this gem facing south in the popular Capistrano Village! The apartment consists of a bright and lovely bedroom with fitted wardrobes, a bathroom with shower and kitchen with
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SPENDING by international tourists in Spain has finally returned to pre-pandemic levels, with the latest figures published by the National Statistics Institute (INE) showing visitors paid out €11.8 billion in the country during the month of July, a 127% rise on the same month a year ago. According to the INE, visitors spent an average
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SPANISH reservoirs have lost 528 cubic hectometres of water in the last week—representing a 0.9% of their total capacity. According to recent data from the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), there is currently a total of 20,174 cubic hectometres of water in storage, which translates to a mere 35.9% of its total
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SOME 40,428 people lost their jobs during August, which is 1,4% more than in July The jobless total in Spain is 2.9 million, according to the Ministry of Employment. SOME 40,428 people lost their jobs during August, which is 1,4% more than in July. Image Wikipedia Of these, 1,173, 239 are men and 1,751,001 women.
