RONDA has just opened its answer to the famous Caminito del Rey, but is it really as hair raising as the original? In April this year, Junta president Juanma Moreno inaugurated Ronda’s latest tourist attraction, the first phase of a new walkway snaking along the Tajo gorge. Once completed, the project will take daring visitors […]
SPAIN’S AESAN food safety agency has raised the alarm over the risk of traces of metal being found inside a type of lollipop that is widely available in stores across the country and is popular with children. Fruity Lollipops from the brand Sweet Petites could contain the dangerous ingredient, according to AESAN. They are sold
THIS is the moment a ‘meteo-tsunami’ struck the Spanish island of Menorca this week. Footage shared online shows sunbeds and parasols being washed away by the huge wave. The freak weather event occurred in the port of Ciutadella on Wednesday. READ MORE: Two major airports in Spain ‘are on brink of collapse’ On Wednesday morning,
A PADDLESURFER spotted a body in a wetsuit floating in the sea off La Marina beach on the southern Costa Blanca on Friday morning. He then contacted emergency services about the shock discovery. The body was said to be at a ‘considerable’ distance from the shore and beyond the safety buoys. READ MORE: GUARDIA CIVIL
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BARCELONA’S city council has announced it will revoke all licenses for tourist apartments in the urban area by 2028. In a major win for anti-tourist activists, Barcelona’s socialist mayor Jaume Collboni announced on Friday that licenses for 10,101 tourist apartments in the city will automatically end in November 2028. The move represents a crushing blow
A BRITISH tourist, 30, was stabbed to death outside a nightclub in a seaside town near Barcelona. Catalan police confirmed that the victim was involved in a fight outside the Oxygen nightclub in Calella at 5am. It is believed that he was killed during a row with a group of foreign men living in the
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THE body of 42-year-old Ester Estepa- missing since last August- has been discovered in Gandia, with serial killer Jose Jurado Montilla being probed over her murder. It was hidden under thick reeds in a cave with clothes and documentation found on her remains. It’s been revealed that her skull was found on a median between
THE Spanish government has decided to remove VAT on olive oil in a bid to bring the price of the Mediterranean staple down. This decision elevates olive oil to the status of a staple food, joining the ranks of bread, eggs, fruits, and vegetables, which already enjoy a reduced VAT rate. This initiative will see
FOREIGN home buyers are continuing to eye up the bulk of their purchases in Mediterranean coastal locations plus the Balearic and the Canary Islands, according to the latest study from property portal idealista. Their report highlights 120 areas where foreign demand represents more than 50% of the home buying market in sun and beach destinations.
