![An aerial view of the north face of Peñas de Santo Domingo, once home of the monastery of San Esteban de Oraste.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/QYQHDOJFJFHBLJXCOBFNAF5XOM.png?auth=81b6a77a7f137749d1286cb988e02b61f6b3bb8e24cbf41234e3137b1f11dcff&width=414&height=311&focal=570%2C415)
A double murder during Spain’s Civil War unearths a medieval monastery
The search for the bodies of two young women shot in 1936 has also turned up a Visigothic tomb and a collection of coins from the 11th century
The search for the bodies of two young women shot in 1936 has also turned up a Visigothic tomb and a collection of coins from the 11th century
John Dickie, author of ‘The Craft: How the Freemasons made the Modern World,’ explains how the secret society has persisted through the ages
The Hispanic Council analyzed the communications of 541 lawmakers in the country and found that 102 communicate officially with their constituents in the language
The hill which now hosts the fortress of Guardamar del Segura was previously the site of a sanctuary consecrated to a divine power that protected sailors
Expert Jesús Losada has written a book about the pieces that have racked up the highest prices at auction, including one unique item that was sold for €944,000
City councils, environmentalists, architects, museums and locals are up in arms against plans for a business involving 4,200 animals, which they say will be an eyesore from Gormaz castle in Soria
The Elda Museum in Alicante is exhibiting a newly restored chandelier-style lantern from the 1st century A.D., which features 32 points of light
Photographic techniques were used on the Lady of Baza, a leading example of Iberian art, to uncover the pigments used by the original artist in the 4th century BC
A historian reconstructs how Santa María de Óvila was dismantled, shipped to the US to be incorporated into the newspaper baron’s California mansion, but finally forgotten in a San Francisco pier
The city of Huelva is planning to erect 15-story buildings at the base of a hill that has yielded dozens of precious artifacts from an ancient civilization that traded as far as the Middle East
It is now 30 years since authorities prioritized Seville Expo infrastructure over national heritage and backed the destruction of a vast complex built by Emperor Maximian Herculius in Córdoba
Granada University and several international laboratories will analyze the explorer’s remains to determine if he was from Italy, Portugal or a region of Spain
Archeologists have pieced together part of the history of finds made around the walls of a town that was a frontier fortress during the medieval wars between Muslims and Christians
The rise in the Hispanic population in America is seeing an increase in the prevalence of family names such as Rodríguez, Martínez, López and González, which are among the 15 most frequently found in the country
Five decades have passed since a huge Talaiotic archeological find was swept aside to make way for an airport runway on the Balearic Island of Mallorca
Police in Córdoba seized the priceless jewelry collection after being alerted to its existence by a local archaeologist who spotted photos of the pieces online
An environmental study linked to a project to dredge an estuary in A Coruña suggests the presence of several English ships sunk in 1589 in the failed attempt to invade the Galician city
Hugh Borthwick, the Scot who owned the outcrop of Fraile in the 1910s, ignored the Roman and Islamic vestiges at his feet: he was too busy keeping his eye on passing German warships
Archeologists digging in a village that was once a center of power find corpses in an unusual location
Thousands of artifacts, including bronze cannons, silverware and candelabras, have been excavated from the frigate which made headlines after a US treasure hunting company removed 600,000 coins from the wreck
New research from the University of Barcelona looks at the parallels between the current pandemic and the disease that swept across the Byzantine Empire 1,500 years ago
Research shows that the town of Driebes in Guadalajara province could be where the battle between the Carthaginians and the Carparthians was fought in 220 B.C.
Recent excavations have revealed the site at the Torreparedones archeological park had an amphitheater as well as markets, public baths and a forum
The Hispanic Council has revived the forgotten story of the Free Company of Volunteers of Catalonia, which was sent to defend the Pacific coast for Spain in the 1700s
A cultural association named Hispania Nostra decries that valuable historical buildings have been defaced, badly restored, or demolished altogether
Although only a few sections have survived, this feat of engineering covered 98.6 kilometers between the mountains and the regional capital
A new novel recreates the bold effort by Harold E. Dahl’s wife to save his life after he was sentenced to death by the Franco regime