Borja Hermoso

The 30-year-old novelist Andrea Genovart and the 84-year-old essayist José Antonio Marina discuss the fears and doubts of the present and the future

Hiroyoshi and Tomiko Ishida, 80 and 81 years old, are a legendary couple in the world food scene. They run Mibu in Tokyo, a haven of technical skills and respect for nature for chefs from all over the planet, a place somewhere between a restaurant, a club and a Zen sanctuary

We tend to think of the brain as immutable. But the Spanish neuroscientist, who studies its interaction with the heart, gut and other organs, explains its many surprising abilities

The writer Ana Viladomiu is the only resident living in La Pedrera, a World Heritage building designed by the iconic Catalan architect and visited by over one million tourists a year

After closing due to management and financial problems, the magical outdoor sculpture park and gallery will welcome in visitors from April 17 to contemplate the work of one of Spain’s most internationally renowned 20th-century artists

Roberto Polo is not easily defined. The owner of a vast art collection, some of which is being shipped to Toledo and Cuenca, he was friends with artists, bankers and celebrities in 1980s New York. He also did jail time, had a close call with death, and was born again. This larger-than-life character has a motto: “Only mediocre men never have problems”

On January 7, 2015, the Kouachi brothers burst into the offices of the satirical publication ‘Charlie Hebdo’ in Paris, armed with assault rifles. Shouting, “Allah is great!” they killed 12 people. The writer and journalist Philippe Lançon suffered terrible injuries to his face and subsequently spent nine months in hospital, undergoing surgery 17 – going on 18 – times. He then returned to ‘normal life’, which is, of course, far from ‘normal’. “It’s not the same because I am no longer me,” he explains. His book ‘Le Lambeau,’ which received critical acclaim in France, has acted as a kind of exorcism

On July 6, a rocket known as the chupinazo kicked off the mother of all Spanish fiestas. A million people from all over the planet come to Pamplona every year for the Sanfermines, an orgy of sound and color that lasts nine days and nights, and where no one is looking at their watch. This year San Fermín is looking to catch its breath in the wake of ‘La Manada’ sexual assault case. Here is how the biggest party in the world gets going

On the eve of his 89th birthday, one of the world’s most influential living thinkers is looking spry as he offers his view on the most pressing issues of our time from his home in Starnberg, including nationalism, immigration, the internet and Europe

A museum paying tribute to the matador and writer opens in town where he was gored to death in 1934

Uncertainty remains over future of religious artifacts removed recently from Catalan museum

Mapfre Foundation shines new light on artist with exhibition including works by Picasso and Rodin

Get the low-down on what to do, where to do it, and how in Pamplona over the next week

US collector Roberto Polo to hand over 7,000 contemporary artworks to two Spanish museums

José Luis Galicia says that he played a role in bringing the Guernica mural into Spain

Collector finds scrapbook capturing horror of bombing through eyes of repentant fascist photographer

EL PAÍS brings together a survivor of the Civil War bombing with descendants of two of the Germans responsible

Filmmaker joins Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon to mull over food, the universe and everything else

Some 600,000 have seen largest collected body of work by creator of ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’

An itinerary for rookies and returning runners alike to get the most out of this famous red-and-white orgy

A Spanish publisher has been chosen to create a facsimile of the ‘Voynich Manuscript’

Government plans to turn down a petition to have them transferred to a new royal museum

Spain’s most prestigious winery, once favored by Churchill, among others, refuses to increase output

A personal account of the inexplicable madness that fuels the San Fermín festival every July

González Macho says his decision is final - unless “strange and dangerous” candidates emerge