VALENCIA is ground zero for the worst natural disaster to hit Spain in a century, claiming at least 95 lives. But it is ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez at Vadodara’s Laxmi Vilas Palace. The historic ...

Queen Isabella I of Castile, shown in a 19th-century portrait by Luis de Madrazo, funded Spain’s transatlantic colonial adventures, beginning in 1492 with Columbus’s first voyage. Oronoz/Album ...

A Greek sailor from Hydra named Nicholas Kolmaniatis, known as Nicholas Jorge, became a war hero in Argentina in the 19th century.

From drought that killed a quarter of a million in the Horn of Africa and heatwaves in Europe that cost some 90,000 lives to ...

The protectorate did not begin in 1912, but as early as 1830. Indebted, threatened and overwhelmed, the sultans preferred to ...

Because of their privileged status as a transnational religious institution and their allegiance to the pope, the Jesuits enjoyed considerable autonomy from both the Spanish and Portuguese crowns.

Adjacent to the Valencia Cathedral, the marble-floored Plaza de la Virgen is an ideal spot to appreciate some of the city's ...

Everything that people took for granted in Chiva is no longer there. The residents of the small Valencian town that registered record rainfall on Tuesday, October 29, cannot call each other on the ...

The largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands ... The history of leisure hiking in Majorca dates to the 19th century, when Archduke Luis Salvador, cousin of Austria’s Empress Sisi, came here on his travels.