Hints and tips:
...For example, one theory holds that the queen, the most powerful piece in the modern game, got those powers in honour of Isabella of Castile. She rises in bronze monuments above Madrid....
...It has brought surreal visions of animals taking over — from goats roaming the streets of Llandudno to peacocks parading through Madrid....
...In the past two years, however, monograph shows in Madrid and Barcelona have thrust him into the spotlight....
...Or, as Giles Tremlett, a Madrid-based author of a biography of Isabella of Castile, puts it: “Spain has plenty to say, but Catalonia is its Achilles heel.”...
...“Franco was a dictator,” says Isabella, who was there with her three children. “But it was a different time. We cannot always judge everything by today’s standards . . ....
...Bloomsbury £25/$35 Tremlett, a journalist who has been a long-serving correspondent in Madrid, vividly plunges the reader into the turmoil of 15th-century Spain and the unbelievable success of Isabella....
...The expulsion by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella came in the wake of the reconquest of Spain from Moorish rule, and their drive to establish a purely Roman Catholic kingdom....
...Spain welcomes back descendants of expelled Jews Madrid approved a new law allowing the descendants of Jewish families expelled in 1492 to apply for citizenship....
...It covers none other than the original grave of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand....
...By the time we reach Madrid at 11pm, the city is just getting going, the bars spilling out drinkers on to the streets....
...Prof Alemany grew up in Getafe, an industrial town in southern Madrid....
...Emilio Sagi’s production, on loan from Madrid’s Teatro Real, favours mild abstraction over local colour....
...Zorilla’s romanticised Don Juan Tenorio was an instant hit in Madrid, where the play opened in 1844....
International Edition