Spain

Nearly half a million hikers arrive in Galicia each year to tackle the Camino de Santiago. But only 1,000 try the lesser-known Winter Way…

Bullfighting may no longer be central to Spanish life, but legends around it continue to be told

To the dismay of tourists and locals, monstrous medusas are thriving in the Mediterranean’s warming waters

Despite leaving for Santander, Britain and all its quirks will not leave me

Spanish beef is being celebrated in the best possible way, on the corner of two streets in the City of London

Forget dating apps, romantics in Spain are pinning their hopes on a less conventional method

Stockport County’s Andy Mangan was set to move to Real Madrid. But then Brexit intervened

A major influencer in China visited and sparked a recurrent wave of visitors eager to try the same dishes they did

Barça’s new manager, Hansi Flick, must understand one simple fact: he is faced with a virtually impossible task

What is behind the rise in Spain of dark tourism, the trend for visiting places associated with tragedy?

Dani Karavan's Passages honours the memory of Walter Benjamin, who took his own life in Portbou when faced with being handed over to the Gestapo

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

The former Catalan president vanished like the Scarlet Pimpernel, believing he had a duty to evade arrest

Valencia’s shores are paying the price of booming seasonal tourism

The islands welcome 14 million holidaymakers a year. Now asylum seekers are frequent visitors, too

Morocco is claiming ownership of Ceuta as a way to put pressure on Spain

The vast number of tourists make our home town unliveable

Bands that played Spain in the heady aftermath of Franco’s death have been rewarded with remarkable loyalty

Three out of the top five restaurants in the world were Spanish this year. Why?

In Mallorca, native islanders are turning against tourists

Before Segovia, the guitar was not an instrument to be taken seriously. In a matter of minutes, everything changed

Even in a country where smoking remains socially acceptable, restrictions still look likely to be widely acknowledged

The Champions League final explains why sport is so compelling – because it tells and retells the tales that we long to hear

In learning how to fight off populists, Spain’s prime minister is starting to emulate their moves

During the city’s Las Fallas festival, Valencia becomes a source of never-ending joviality

The Spanish prime minister took five days off to ponder his future – before deciding to carry on as before

Spaniards view the prime minister’s announcement as the latest of his electoral strategies

In 1974, Portugal had the lowest wages and highest illiteracy in western Europe. Then came the Carnation Revolution

In 2023, Catalonia’s drought halved wine production and this year is only expected to be worse

A million of the club’s fans crammed into a city of 350,000 to celebrate their Copa del Rey victory. I was not anticipating to be one of them

You Are Not Alone, a powerful new documentary, follows the horrific attack that gripped Spain

Despite some attempts at prohibition, the tradition goes on in Spain. Like that of the bulls, its own demise will be a long, drawn-out affair