March 2024

A SMALL Alicante province town has launched a phone app that it hopes will fight depopulation by bringing together single people. Salinas in the Alto Vinalopo region has around 1,500 residents- 25% of which are non-Spaniards- and is using an AI-based app to make both residents and tourists aware of each other. The app revolves […]

SPAIN’S biggest St. Patrick’s Day parade takes place this Sunday on the southern Costa Blanca. Cabo Roig on the Orihuela Costa will be a sea of green with at least 25,000 visitors expected- boosted by a good weather forecast and March 17 falling on a weekend. The parade- one of the largest in Europe to

TWO men doing Spain’s famous Camino de Santiago pilgrims walk had to take refuge up an oak tree after being charged by several cows. The hikers, aged 28 and 64, were on the Extremadura section of the trail when they were surprised by the animals. They had to climb up to the top of an

MALAGA’S mayor Francisco de la Torre has joined his counterparts in Cordoba and Sevilla in calling for a tourist tax to be levied in Andalucia. They feel it would be useful to pay for projects to cope with tourist saturation in cities popular with visitors. Catalunya and the Balearic Islands both impose a tourist levy

A PILE-UP involving 40 cars in foggy conditions on the AP-7 motorway has left one dead, two people trapped, and five seriously injured. The incident occurred at kilometre 455 of the AP-7 motorway at 8:40am this morning, with injured victims taken to La Plana de Vila-real hospital nearby. According to the local fire service, 40

THREE flights were forced to divert from Sevilla to Malaga this morning after a bank of severe fog enveloped the airport. Dangerously low visibility led to the trio of flights being told to land in Malaga where weather conditions were better. The diverted planes had come from Paris, Valencia and Palma de Mallorca respectively. Mañana

THE lawyer of exiled ex-Catalunya president Carles Puigdemont says he will return to Spain once the new Amnesty Law hits the statute books- even at the risk of being arrested for terrorism. Gonzalo Boye has also talked about his client heading up the list for the Junts party in May’s Catalan elections in a bid

THE world’s first map to show countries most prone to soil subsidence has Spain as one of those most affected in Europe. Sinkholes are becoming more common due to underground water extraction via aquifers. The extraction occurs in porous areas of the subsoil, which causes the progressive compaction of underground sediments and eventual deformation of

THE fate of this year’s Cala Mijas Festival is hanging by a thread. With the festival’s third edition looming at the end of August, the event finds itself in a game of brinkmanship over its finances. Details about the lineup and ticket sales remain conspicuously absent just five months before it is supposed to go