Spain Magazine: Independent on Sunday: Sports active: What's so special about Tarifa? The answer is blowing in the wind...
The blaze of colour on view at the beach is amazing. It's as if a multicoloured quilt has been laid over the sea. The colours shift and swap places, dip down and reappear as if from nowhere. Tarifa, perched on the southern tip of Spain where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean, has been a windsurfing mecca for a while, and it shows.Wind is what defines this Andalucian town. Or rather, two winds, which blow through it year-round: the levante, from the east, and the poniente,...
Spain Magazine: DALI'S FORTUNE IS WILLED TO SPAIN, MAGAZINE SAYS
MADRID - A Spanish magazine said yesterday that Salvador Dali had bequeathed his paintings and properties to the Spanish state. It said the eccentric surrealist painter had changed his original will, which had ordered that his works should be shared between Spain and his northeast home region, Catalonia.The unconfirmed report by the magazine Cambio 16 came a week before Dali's will is to be opened.Dali died a week ago, aged 84. His closest living relative is his sister Ana...
Spain Magazine: Independent on Sunday: Building A Library: Andalucia
Andalucia, Spain's once-grand southernmost province, is sadly now known as much for the concrete homogeneity of the Costa del Sol as the hushed beauty of the Alhambra Palace. But its cultural heritage, from colonisation by the Phoenicians, Romans and Moors to rule by the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons, has spawned writing at once formidable and eclectic. Given its affinity with England, it is unsurprising that the starting point for anybody interested in serious literature about the...
Spain Magazine: Daily Mail: Couple's GBP300,000 Spanish villa to be torn down
A BRITISH couple have been left penniless and homeless in Spain after being conned into paying GBP300,000 for a retirement home that will have to be demolished.Bruce Gauntlett and Wendy Jackson-Smith ploughed their savings into a luxury villa on the Costa Blanca, expecting to spend the rest of their lives there. They spent GBP33,000 on a plot of land and a further GBP250,000 building the striking property.But their dreams of a comfortable retirement in the sun lie in ruins after...