In 1492, a significant moment ... formally completed the Reconquista with the capture of Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain. This event not only marked the end of centuries of Islamic ...
The Behaim Globe depicted a narrowed Atlantic Ocean, which, if crossed, would lead directly to Cipango (Japan) and Asia. In ...
It’s her first time in Spain. “Everything here is a bit cheaper,” Lisberg, from the Chicago area, told CNN in the Spanish capital, where she was visiting friends before going to Italy for ...
Like the fiesta, the architecture is unchanged since the Moors were expelled from Andalucia by Christians in 1492. The church ... As the iconic Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca observed when ...
By Liz Alderman Liz Alderman covers the European economy. The Spanish government is moving to rein in real estate purchases by foreigners and curb the spread of short-term rentals, part of a ...
That period, in which Cervantes, St John of the Cross and Lope de Vega flourished and an empire was created in America, has become known as Spain’s ‘Golden Century’. But a darker epithet might be more ...
Officials say 10 people were taken to hospital after a chairlift failed at the Astún resort in the Spanish Pyrenees. At least 10 people have been injured when a ski lift failed in northern Spain.