Spain

How Stephen Frears’ The Hit – the first movie based on British gangsters exiled in Spain – finally lived up to its name

The old artisanal baker is not as prevalent in France as you might think

Restaurants like this tapas bar rarely exist in Britain. People are too reluctant to live

The Spanish press are asking pointed questions about the lacklustre warning system and slow crisis response

There’s pain and glory in The Last Dream – a patchy collection from the Spanish film-maker – but its highlight is all about his mother

The wisecracking writer was traumatised and transformed by her 1937 visit to Spain to support the Republican cause in the civil war

Spain is ready to halt its ‘golden visa’ scheme, closing off another route for Britons to settle in the EU

The floods north of Valencia have left a scene of almost unimaginable destruction

The photographer’s extraordinary images of ordinary lives get a new showing in her centenary year

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