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Florentino Pérez, the president of Real Madrid.

Real Madrid president: ‘We are creating a European Super League to save soccer, the situation is dire’

Lorenzo Calonge / Nadia Tronchoni|Madrid / Barcelona|20 Apr 2021 - 11:06UTC

Florentino Pérez, who will be the new chairman of the breakaway project, said last night that it is aimed at giving the sport an economic boost after the financial losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic

SPANISH HISTORY

The network of 6,000 bunkers that Franco built but never used

Lorenzo Calonge|Puerto de Otxondo (Navarre)|01 May 2018 - 12:32UTC

In fear of post-war invasion and internal resistance, the Spanish dictator ordered his own version of the Maginot Line to be constructed in the Pyrenees

The train car sitting in a warehouse in Almazán (Soria).

Spanish history

Nobody wants to restore Franco’s train

Lorenzo Calonge|Almazán|09 Jan 2018 - 08:25UTC

The carriage in which the Spanish dictator traveled to meet Hitler in 1940 is still awaiting restoration

History

The island that Spain and France rule for six months of every year

Lorenzo Calonge|01 Aug 2017 - 06:59UTC

Today, as part of a twice-yearly tradition, Madrid formally cedes control of tiny Pheasant Island to France