Hints and tips:
...Santiago Abascal, Vox’s leader, said at an election rally last week that Spain’s domestic policy was “decided either by the bureaucrats in Brussels or the Basque and Catalan separatists”....
...Santiago Abascal, leader of the hard-right Vox party, called the amnesty deal a “coup d’etat” and said there should be “no restraint” in the response to it....
...Valencia described the punishment as “unfair and disproportionate”....
...The PP rushed into a rapid coalition deal with Vox in the Valencia region, where one hard right official claimed that “violence against women doesn’t exist” and Feijóo was forced to veto a role for Vox’s...
...Following the Sunday vote, PP-Vox coalitions are possible in at least five of Spain’s 17 regions, including Valencia, Aragón and Extremadura....
...(His own nickname, “The Bull”, was well earned and it made perfect sense to see him compete, years later, in Valencia’s Plaza de Toros in a Davis Cup tie.)...
...The national leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, said his party’s support for a vote on Andalucia’s government, slated for mid-January, was not guaranteed....
...“Pedro Sánchez comes out of this very reinforced and has several options in reach,” said Astrid Barrio, professor of politics at the University of Valencia....
...“It seems that the Spanish are more moderate than people thought,” said Astrid Barrio, politics professor at the University of Valencia....
...Mr Rivera ruled out a post-election coalition with the PSOE but not with Vox and appeared in an anti-Sanchez rally photo with Vox leader Santiago Abascal....
...Some new developments can be found near the City of Arts and Sciences, a complex of contemporary buildings and bridges designed by Santiago Calatrava....
...August saw demonstrations in Valencia, Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona and, most unexpected of all, civilised and well-to-do San Sebastián....
...At Spain’s Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, an exhibition of work from the 1990s shows a darker side....
...Cities such as Valencia and Santiago de Compostela, meanwhile, embarked on ambitious museum projects during the boom years that are now widely regarded as costly follies....
...Next year’s schedule includes Las Fallas in Valencia, San Fermín in Pamplona, and Seville’s April Fair (and experiencing them by train removes all the hassles of traffic and finding hotel availability)....
...Sciences in Valencia....
...Designed by Santiago Calatrava, the Spanish architect, the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia boasts a science museum, cinema, opera house and giant aquarium....
...Most important cities are now connected to Madrid by high-speed rail, cutting travel times between the capital and cities such as Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Málaga by several hours....
...After we married in 1988, I left the Flying Valencias and joined her as an engineer....
...When Santiago Calatrava first appeared on the scene in the 1980s, his work was a revelation....
...“Some of the caja mergers that took place were dysfunctional,” says Santiago Carbó, a professor of economics at the University of Granada....
...They were seized by the state and sold or simply nationalised – in Castilla La Mancha, Andalucia, Valencia, Galicia and Catalonia....
...BBVA lost 2 per cent to €8.55, Banco Popular declined 2.2 per cent to €4.35, Banco de Valencia was 0.5 per cent weaker at €3.92 and Banco Santander lost 1.2 per cent to €8.51....
...He says, “My idea of football is expressed in five books, and in the teams I coached at Tenerife, Real Madrid and Valencia. All my teams had the same style....
...a plausible claim to be the Holy Grail and the remarkable Santiago Calatrava-designed opera house, now two years old....
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