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...“There is very strong momentum in the north,” said José Román Blanco Álvarez, its promotions director....
...In Galicia, in north-west Spain, roughly 100 projects have been stalled by disputes lodged with the region’s top court, says the local wind trade body....
...One may argue that José María Aznar’s PP was a conservative party that stood on a platform that today would be called “hard right”....
...Miguel F Lancha, the Spanish-born cocktail director of ThinkFoodGroup, chef José Andrés’s restaurant group in the US, favours Sangria twists that are deliciously high-low....
...Feijóo has established his authority by winning four consecutive absolute majorities in north-west Galícia region....
...Though London has many excellent Spanish and Spanish-ish places — Sabor, Moro, José, Tendido Cero — it also suffers more than most cities from tapas as a concept, which deploys small plates as a kitchen...
...That the virus could begin spreading again almost immediately in Catalonia and two other northern regions, Aragón and Galicia, exposes the mis-steps and glaring weaknesses in the official response, critics...
...Meanwhile, Euskaltel, which has expanded to nearby Galicia and Asturias in recent years, has pledged to double its customer base to 1.6m and its revenue to €1.3bn within five years....
...This summer, Mr Zoreda said, there was little prospect of a real return to international tourism, apart from limited numbers of French visitors to Catalonia and Portuguese in Galicia....
...Not only did the PP lose half of its 137 seats, it was also pushed into second place by the socialists in Galicia, an impregnable north-western bastion for 40 years....
...His possible replacements include Alberto Núñez Feijóo, head of the Galicia region, and Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, the former deputy prime minister....
...For more on visiting Galicia, see turismo.gal...
...Arguably he gave most importance to the ideas of the man he sought to equal: José Martí, the 19th-century national hero....
...In Muxia, as in many other villages along Galicia’s Costa da Morte (Coast of Death), they provide a livelihood for dozens of families....
...Avenida de Sineiro 7, 36005 San Salvador de Poio, Pontevedra, Galicia; restaurantesolla.com...
...He left school in his teens to work in a tailor’s shop, later becoming a clothes manufacturer in his home province of Galicia with his first wife and brother....
...José María Castellano, who served as Mr Ortega’s number two at Inditex for 30 years, told the Financial Times last year that upmarket Madrid shoppers were at first ashamed to be seen to shop at what was...
...José Ignacio Torreblanca, senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, argued that the PP victory in Galicia would make it easier for Mr Rajoy to ask for a European rescue but that such a...
...Vaquer tells me that it is now the default vermouth at many of the world’s top-end Spanish restaurants, from Jaleo in Washington DC to London’s Barrafina and José Pizarro....
...Stepping into this maelstrom of political and client outrage was José María Castellano, a native Galician and a former vice-president at Inditex, the Zara clothes store owner....
...Now Maria José, manager of El Remesal, says “wolf tourism” has thrown her business a lifeline. “All the fear we used to feel, that’s all in the past. What do I think about the wolf?...
...“The equation of cajas and regions was a way of printing money,” says José Ignacio Torreblanca of the European Council on Foreign Relations....
...Mr Rajoy retorts that he is “proud and happy” to be from Galicia, a northwestern stronghold of his conservative Popular party....
...Mr Rajoy, a 57-year-old career politician from Galicia, was never regarded as charismatic, but his supporters saw him as a competent manager who would restore order to Spain’s public finances and win the...
...For José Gómez, a fourth-generation boss of Joselito, a renowned gourmet ham factory based near Salamanca, demand for one of Spain’s national delicacies has never been higher....
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