July 2023

SPAIN’S new Housing Law landed at the end of May with plans to help out struggling renters who saw their costs spiralling. But it also contains provisions that will concern expat second home owners, as Pedro Sanchez’s government looks to encourage them to rent out their properties – and penalise them if they don’t. So […]

THE premier cruise trade event and conference for the Mediterranean and its adjoining seas, Seatrade Cruise Med, has chosen Malaga for the second time to hold what it considered one of the most important fairs of the cruise sector. The professional event will once again place Malaga on the world map of the sector as

HE might be 78, but Rod Stewart shows no signs of slowing down. The rocker has just completed three dates in Spain – at the Wizink Center in Madrid, the Starlite Catalana Occidente in Marbella last Friday and at the Concert Music Festival, in Chiclana de la Frontera-Poblado de Sancti Petri on Saturday. LOOKING GOOD:

SPAIN’S socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will today find out if his gamble on a snap election pays off, or if a far right party will take a place in government for the first time since elections were held after General Franco’s death. Sanchez called today’s general election after his PSOE socialists suffered heavy defeats

GIBRALTAR’S Minister for the Environment slammed ‘increasing support for right-wing politicians’ that question the climate change argument after the Earth had the three hottest days ever recorded recently. Minister John Cortes, a keen environmentalist who regularly supports campaigns in the region and abroad, said these politicians were ‘actively working against the measures we actively need’

TWO amphoras, dating back to the 1st and 2nd centuries, have been discovered at a beach in Puente Mayorga, in the Cadiz municipality of San Roque. The surprising discovery was made by a diver who alerted the police after sighting what looked to be a large amphora, partly sheltered by sand and sludge about eight

THE Sala Real 98 art gallery in Frigiliana is presenting a new exhibition: Without Rhyme or Reason by Helen Purdie from August 2nd to August 13th.  The exhibit features abstract art and is influenced by Purdie’s autism diagnosis in her adult life.  One Purdie’s works showcased in this new exhibit  Purdie is a Cambridge native

AFTER a season’s hiatus, one of the most popular Spas in the province of Granada, the Balneario de Alicún, has reopened. The mineral-rich, hyper thermal natural waters which form part of a two-star hotel spar centre, have a natural temperature of 35º and contain bicarbonates, sulphates, calcium and magnesium; the combination offers therapeutic cures using

ASTURIAS in Spain can boast of being home to the world’s smallest beach; Playa de Gulpiyuri. This tucked-away gem, fed by underground tunnels, is located over 100m from the Cantabrian Sea, and was formed as a result of the erosion of the sea, which created a series of caves and underground channels. These channels allow

Oviedo, Asturias   4 beds   2 baths € 159,000 This flat is at Calle Fray Ceferino, 33001, Oviedo, Asturias, on floor 1. It is a flat, built in 1975, that has 124 m2 of which 105 m2 are useful and has 4 rooms and 2 bathrooms. ACCOMPLISHED DREAMS… See full property details