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...The Franco-Italian group, created through a €50bn merger in 2017 of the late Leonardo Del Vecchio’s eyewear group Luxottica and French lens manufacturer Essilor, acquired Israeli hearing technology start-up...
...In the seaside provinces of Andalusia, whose traditional Costa del Sol tourist magnets include Málaga, Marbella and Torremolinos, Spain’s meteorological agency issued 63 severe heat warnings in August, which...
...Stylist’s assistants, Tess Pisani, Xenia Settel, Franco Garcia and Jade Paturel. Hair assistant, Kyoko Kishita. Make-up assistant, Miki Matsunaga....
...The 2024 line-up includes Metallica (May 29), Lana del Rey (June 4), Green Day and Doja Cat (both June 16)....
...regime of dictator Francisco Franco....
...The designs for this metro were by Franco Albini and Franca Helg (for this and many other stations), with graphics by Dutchman Bob Noorda (who also designed the signage for the New York subway with Massimo...
...Guillermo Francos, Milei’s candidate for interior minister, disputes such gloomy assessments....
...After 1898, when Spain lost its colonies of Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico in a war with the US still remembered as “the Disaster”, the author Ramón del Valle-Inclán declared bitterly, “Spain is a...
...February 27 to June 16; further information and tickets here ‘La Forza del Destino’ and ‘Turandot’, The Metropolitan Opera The Met Opera’s first new production of Verdi’s La Forza del Destino in almost...
...Declining support for an independent Catalonia In the post-Franco era, public support for Catalonia’s secession from Spain reached its peak between 2012 and 2019 — the latter date, two years after separatist...
...Doing so required travelling into Clan del Golfo territory, a zone ruled by armed gangsters in military fatigues....
...There are numerous other examples in cinema: Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (2001) and Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) used fantasy to bring the traumas of the Franco dictatorship and the Spanish civil...
...The setting is New Babylon, a fictional gated community for outsiders built within a Texan crater by former slave John Ellis (Nicholas Pinnock)....
...The Catalan coast is where Spain’s package holiday industry was born, an attempt, under Franco, to pull the country out of its postwar economic turmoil; Brits flew to Perpignan in France and were bussed...
...First introduced by Franco’s government in 1964 as a fixed price menú turístico, it was a low-price deal that restaurants were obliged to offer as part of a wider effort to attract tourism in Spain — also...
....£11 Tesco Salvaje del Moncayo, La Garnacha 2019 Ribera del Queiles 14%Old Grenache vines at 810m deliver sweet, transparent pleasure. £11.49 Majestic Château Laulan 2018 Francs Côtes de Bordeaux 14% Rich...
...She dated the letter and put it in an envelope addressed to Father Álvaro del Portillo, Escrivá’s successor....
...Here, Vigo saw Giuseppe Terragni’s Casa del Fascio, a modernist grid of glass windows built as the headquarters of the fascist party....
...In fact, for several decades after the death of Francisco Franco, much of Spain recoiled against traditions, including la hora del vermut (vermouth time), which typically came just before Sunday lunch....
...Pagos del Rey, Marqués de los Zancos Rioja Blanco 2021 12.5%Viura (aka Macabeo, which doesn’t age too fast) that’s simple but notably crisp and fruity for a fiver....
...The Bernabéu stood just north of town, on the Avenida del Generalísimo, named after Spain’s dictator Franco, and near the highway to France, so even then the club looked towards Europe....
...For more 20th-century art, I’d visit Museo del Novecento, and I’m also a big fan of Gio Ponti so I’d recommend a trip to the Pirelli Tower....
...The Harrow-educated Blackwell was “Chris Whiteworst” to Peter Tosh, the firebrand Wailer member whose story is told in Nicholas Campbell’s 1992 film Steppin’ Razor: Red X....
...Nicholas Sanders, an agent at Yucatán Beach and City Property, insists that he could leave his door unlocked and his home wouldn’t be burgled....
...put their country on the map of world cinema, but conquered Hollywood: Alfonso Cuarón (from breakthrough Y tu mamá también to Roma, via Gravity and even a Harry Potter); horror/fantasy maestro Guillermo del...
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