Pedro Bermudo, the Spaniard who invented the language of God in 1653
A play recounts the astonishing story of the religious man who created a universal language of numbers
Scissors, guns, and drugs: Stories of Spanish seasonal workers on California’s illegal marijuana farms
Every year, people from around the world travel to California to work in this illicit trade, which is controlled by criminal organizations and marked by precariousness and violence
Inside Spain’s slaughterhouse of horrors: Dying animals, severed heads, and dead rats
Five people were arrested in an operation targeting livestock farms, industrial warehouses, and illegal facilities in Ávila, Toledo, and Madrid that were sending untraceable meat to restaurants
How the oldest science in the world flourished in Toledo 1,000 years ago
An international conference on the origins of galaxies pays tribute to the pioneering scientific cooperation between Muslims, Jews, and Christians that took place in Spain at the end of the Middle Ages
Julián Casanova, historian: ‘The good things Franco did were done by democracies without torture or death sentences’
The professor of contemporary history has published a new biography of the dictator, a solid portrait that covers everything from his time in Africa and Hitler’s help at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the essential role of the Church in the regime
For the first time, Prado Museum brings together eight works by El Greco from around the world
‘The Assumption of the Virgin’ – which belongs to the Art Institute of Chicago – was last displayed in the Madrid art gallery more than a century ago
The secret of the six Lucena sisters, the first women in the world to print books
Two U.S. Hispanists argue a Toledo family persecuted by the Inquisition hold the key to the mystery of the most widely distributed work of the Spanish Golden Age: ‘La Celestina’
The Iberian lynx doubles its population in just three years and reaches 2,000 individuals
Despite the good data, 344 more breeding females are still needed for the species to reach a favorable status
A rancher finds three newborn lynxes in his haystack in Spain
Births of this type are not frequent, although there are several cases of females choosing buildings to shelter and give birth
Forty years after a Roman villa was found in Spain, its owner remains unknown
Experts believe that the palatial complex was a significant center of power that received the Mediterranean’s best materials and ceramics
Storm leaves trail of destruction in parts of Spain: ‘People screamed they were drowning’
A 10-year-old boy survived by clinging to a tree branch after the car he was traveling in with his family was dragged away as it attempted to cross a bridge
What is hidden under the ground in Toledo, Spain?
A report argues that the site outside the walls did not house the Visigoth capital but rather recreational estates and Roman buildings
Synagogues, cemeteries, and settlements: Spain’s hidden Jewish heritage
The expulsion of the Jews in 1492 buried homes and synagogues standing for more than a thousand years in the Iberian Peninsula
Why marijuana plantations are spreading across southern Spain
With seizures jumping eighteenfold in Almería province, authorities warn that growers are passing off illegal cannabis as hemp for industrial use