A popular tale of an enormous and frightening lizard reverberates around the city even today, five hundred years later. No one quite knows the truth. The legend of the lizard of Jaen, whose first reference was recorded in 1628, is alive and well in the city, with a popular saying, a musical competition and many [...]
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This area is known as PaÃs Vasco in Spanish and Euskadi in Basque. The Basque people have preserved unique culture, the jewel of which is its language, Euskera, a pre-Indoeuropean tongue whose mysterious origin has never been established. The Atlantic Ocean meets the green slopes of the Pyrenees, making a rugged coastline and mountainous hinterland. [...]
Extremadura is one of the most beautiful and least known regions of interior Spain. It contains beautiful cities with many different influences that can be seen: Roman, Moorish, Medieval and aristocratic. The city of Cáceres has anold quarter ringed by old Moorish walls and watchtowers, full of Renaissance churches and palaces. Trujillo is another Extremadura [...]
Madrid – Spain’s ruling Socialist Party on Tuesday withdrew its support for a motion that would have ended the so-called “Beckham law” under which foreign footballers receive tax benefits. The Socialists had earlier agreed to support a move by the IU-ICV, a coalition of leftist and Green parties, to introduce the measure “to curb the [...]
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