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There was never such perfect darkness. The blackness is absolute and the silence is broken only by the breathing of the other visitors in the group. We are hundreds of meters underground, in a small passage that connects two drifts in the Pozo Sotón mine in Spain’s northwestern region of Asturias. There is very little […]

A rendition of the new unified terminal.Aena The Spanish airport authority Aena is planning to invest around €1.5 billion in remodeling its Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas facility as part of its 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. Recently approved by the Aena board of directors, the operation consists of merging Terminals 1, 2 and 3 and expanding Terminal 4

A busy beach on the Costa Brava.toni ferragut Spaniards traveled less in the summer of 2019 than they did the previous year, with a significant drop in domestic tourism that a rise in foreign trips failed to balance out. That’s according to the Familitur survey carried out by Spain’s National Statistics Office (INE), which focused

Former Foreign Minister Josep Borrell and Brexit Minister Steve Barclay in September.EP (EL PAÍS) Britain’s imminent departure from the European Union means that Spain is embarking on a special task: negotiating Gibraltar’s own exit from the European club. In mid-January, the Spanish government and the United Kingdom will begin talks on the British Overseas Territory,

It’s breakfast time. On the second floor of a building in one of the most expensive areas of Madrid, a young man opens the door of a luxury apartment that has been seized by the authorities from a drug dealer, and is now being used by a special team from Spain’s internal affairs unit to

Sevda, a Gyspy woman who was once punched in the face while sleeping.Michael Damanti If you have walked through Puerta del Sol square in downtown Madrid, you may have seen them. Among the people dressed up as Super Mario and Mickey Mouse, the cigarette stands and the buskers, they slip in and out of the

The reopening of the Chillida Leku Museum is the perfect excuse to visit San Sebastián – known in Basque as Donostia – in Spain’s northwestern Basque Country. As are the city’s delicious pinxtos, the tapas-like creations that are an art in themselves. Indeed, there are more than enough reasons to visit San Sebastián, a city

A polling station in Priors Dean, in the south of England.Andrew Matthews/PA Wire/dpa They want to stay in the United Kingdom, they point to the contribution of Europeans to British prosperity and they fear Brexit more for its impact on the domestic economy than the possible effect the country’s departure from the European Union could

A television in a bar in Gibraltar shows a commercial for the British election debate.Marcos Moreno Conchita was among the 95.91% of Gibraltarians who voted against Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in the 2016 referendum. Like her neighbors, she was shocked to find out the following day that the United Kingdom would be leaving

Change is coming to Latin America and Chileans know it.GORAN TOMASEVIC (REUTERS) Here are a few of last week’s headlines: “Sweden’s dominant centrist party reverses its position and announces willingness to work with right-wing nationalists.” “To retain power, [Canadian Prime Minister] Trudeau must learn to work with rivals.” “Israel faces third election in less than