March 2023

ONE of the best ‘Bean to bar’ chocolates in Spain is 100% made in Malaga: Maychoco. Every day begins with selecting, roasting, cracking, and grinding cacao beans for Malaga-born chocolate maker Mayte Sánchez, who opened a small artisan chocolate making workshop, Maychoco, on the Costa del sol in 2019 and has since become renowned for […]

DENIA residents say they’re concerned about 24 apartments being built at Les Marines beach and the damage they could do to the local eco-system. They claim that sand dunes are threatened along with other local flora and fauna. Besides the dunes, the area is home to unique vegetation like coastal scrubs and provides shelter to

LAWMAKERS from a number of different Spanish political parties have been receiving bags containing fake human foetuses as a form of protest against a new abortion law that recently came into force.  Sources from the governing Socialist Party, its junior coalition partner Unidas Podemos and Basque group Bildu have confirmed to Europa Press that deputies

Strikes are planned by unionized Swissport ground staff across Spanish airports. Ground staff operating with the airport handling company have announced walkouts on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays between the period of February 27 and April 13. Union members are demanding better working conditions and increased pay. The strike action is expected to cause disruption across

Barcelona has been named one of the top European cities accommodating those who need to follow a strict gluten-free diet.  It came in eighth place and was the top Spanish city in a study by travel logistics app Bounce. The study considered how growing interest and popularity in the Catalunyan capital in the early 2000s

The number of bodies being found in Spain is on the increase, disturbing figures show.  According to the Ministry of the Interior, state security services and police found 226 dead bodies in 2021, the highest figure in recent years. In 2021, 2,285 people were reported missing – This means that 61 people disappeared every day

SPAIN’S National Police force has arrested a couple on suspicion of sexually exploiting more than 120 women in the Alicante municipalities of Elche and Novelda. The pair are thought to have created a business network of modelling agencies and film production companies in order to ensnare their victims.  The investigation began when one of the

The scourge of kids and pets has returned with force to Spanish population centres earlier than expected this year, alarming health experts. Systematic steps should be taken to reduce the harmful effects of the pine processionary caterpillar on people and animals, Spain’s national association of environmental health companies (Anecpla) has urged. A familiar if sinister

JAVEA is one of the three municipalities in Spain with the most expensive properties. That’s according to a recent study from leading quantity surveyor’s firm UVE Valoraciones.  The report found that a family would need 15.46 years of income, on average, to purchase a home in the coastal town in Alicante in 2022.  The calculation

Real estate agent Alby Euesden is originally from the UK  but has called Mallorca home for the past 24 years, and now he’s taken on a new role to help attract other people to the Balearic island. Named the new managing partner of The Agency, a new real estate office in Mallorca, the Olive Press