Over 1,000 movies were shot in the Spanish capital last year, most of them in the city center, partly because of low permit fees: ‘This occupation of our streets has become the norm in our daily lives’
Madrid will host the league’s first regular season game in Spain, the latest country to join after two decades of expansion in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Germany
The leader of Spain’s leftist governing coalition is facing political and legal turmoil, but remains confident that ‘the truth’ will prevail and says he wants to run for re-election in 2027
An international investigation confirms that beta-blockers, prescribed routinely for four decades, do not provide benefits to most patients recovering from a myocardial infarction
Mariano José Nsué Obama, the son of a former minister of agriculture, wants to rule Equatorial Guinea and change the country’s name to the Republic of San Rafael Nsué Nchama
Bogotá’s intelligence service is targeting the New Drug Trafficking Board amid the crisis with Washington. Gustavo Petro claims this organization wants to assassinate him
The couple recalls the distressing days after the police found the painting. The officers even came to suspect the two were connected to the Louvre heist
The experimental treatment, developed using cells at La Paz public hospital, achieves a preliminary survival rate of 70% in patients who had exhausted all other options
All traces of the 1919 ’Still Life with Guitar’ were lost when it was moved to Granada for an exhibition. Authorities suspect the tiny artwork never left the Spanish capital in the first place
The recent refusal by Congress to even consider a public initiative to withdraw national cultural protection from bullfighting, aided by a conspicuous abstention by the governing Socialists, has infuriated some and delighted others
The economic anthropologist proposes reducing the consumption of unnecessary items to avoid a social and ecological collapse
The allocation for dozens of Patriot missile systems in 2024 alone accounted for half of the total Defense Ministry procurement that year
Brussels underscores that trade is the exclusive responsibility of the European executive and that there is already a bilateral trade agreement with the US
Among voters of the mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP), more people believe the dictatorship was ‘good’ than ‘bad.’ And 61% of far-right Vox voters believe the democratic system is worse or much worse than Francoism ever was
Manuel Álvarez Escudero triumphed over significantly younger rivals in an official tournament in Madrid
The debate is warranted, as the data show genuine disparities. They also highlight a deeper reason: Spain’s growth is no longer what it used to be
At least three people are injured and four others are missing. Sources say up to 40 individuals could have been inside the building, which was undergoing renovation to become a four-star hotel
The Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid is hosting the largest retrospective in Spain of the photographer’s work, with 250 pieces, including images, publications, and objects on war and life
The Harvard Medical School professor warns of the dangers of new technologies to enhance brain capacity, because what improves some abilities can worsen others
A team of scientists describes how malignant cells use ‘highways’ of hardened tissue to spread to other organs, and how blocking two proteins can stop them
Calls for a boycott over the Gaza massacre are spreading throughout the worlds of culture, sports, and economics in more and more countries
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was in Madrid, Spain for the talks. The US president said he will speak with China’s Xi Jinping on Friday
José Luis Cordeiro, the Argentine president’s friend and muse, talks about his ideas of eternal youth, which he claims will be available by 2045
‘The debate that has opened up about what happened in Spain should grow and reach every corner of the world,’ said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
Various studies have attempted, without success, to analyze whether reading can increase our empathy. The evidence is clearer regarding its power to enhance culture and mental health
The vulnerability of addicts makes them easy targets for recruitment by cult-like organizations
In 1635, Spain sent an envoy to England to make purchases. When Charles I was beheaded, the dismantling of the English art collections became the opportunity of the century
