A countrywide power outage impacted Spain—as well as swaths of Portugal and smaller portions of France—Monday afternoon, affecting essential services and wreaking chaos across the Iberian Peninsula.

Redrawing the MapUniting Castile and Aragon created a superstate that included the wealthy Mediterranean seaboard in the east and had western access to the Atlantic, a crucial position during the ...

Officials are investigating the cause of the outages, while smaller blackouts were also reported in France and Andorra.

Throughout the tumultuous 15th century, La Mota was caught in a bloody tug-of-war between Castille and Aragon. It repeatedly changed hands between the two powers in the decades before they were ...

Have you ever wondered why the Spanish language is usually called Castilian or 'castellano' in Spain and not Spanish? The ...

A chronology of key events: 1492 - The Christian Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon conquer the Emirate of Granada, ending nearly 800 years of Muslim rule in the south and founding modern Spain as a ...

Queen Isabella of Castille and King Ferdinand II of Aragon receive Christopher Columbus in April 1492 at the Spanish royal court. Isabella was one of a group of medieval queens who took active ...

When the itinerant Charles V was struggling to establish his rule over the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, he sent the Spanish court Titian’s copy of his portrait, originally painted by Jakob ...

According to the entity's forecasts, seven regions will grow above the estimate for the country as a whole (2.5%): Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Community of Madrid, Navarra, Aragon ...

A chronology of key events: 1492 - The Christian Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon conquer the Emirate of Granada, ending nearly 800 years of Muslim rule in the south and founding modern Spain as a ...