Romanesque churches’ explicitly sexual carvings were ‘the nobility’s political propaganda’
Historian Isabel Mellén suggests a reinterpretation of the graphic images that adorn the doorways and columns of the churches in northern Spain
The Spanish Reconquest and the Battle of Covadonga: When myths contaminate history
In several recent essays historians discuss the founding milestones of Spanish nationalism, the traditional banner of conservative politicians, around the struggle for Al-Andalus
Not in the city, not in the countryside: In Spain, rental pressure leaves tenants with nowhere to go
Prices exceed 30% of average income in urban areas in almost all parts of the country. Experts talk about ‘a second gentrification’ of people who were expelled from city centers to the periphery and now find themselves pushed beyond that
A rare mammal with a trunk-like snout and webbed feet: The Iberian desman faces extinction
The ‘Spanish platypus’ is unique to the Iberian Peninsula and a jewel of evolution that has lost up to 70% of the geographical range it occupied three decades ago
Russia gives Spain digital copy of a valuable medieval manuscript stolen in 1835
The 11th-century ‘Will of Count Gundesindo’ disappeared from a monastery and showed up over a century later in Saint Petersburg