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...Ramón Estalella, secretary-general of CEHAT, a holiday accommodation trade group, said hotel occupation rates were at record highs in the south. “There’s one thing that’s curious....
...Ramón Menéndez Pidal, a distinguished 20th-century Spanish historian, once observed: “In Spain, difference of opinion degenerates into a contest of irreconcilable animosity.”...
...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...
...ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHYTania Franco Klein is a Mexico City-based photographer. For this article, FT Weekend Magazine invited Klein to create fictional scenes that reflect aspects of this article....
...will probably need the support of the Vox party to take office, meaning the hard right could enter government for the first time since Spain’s return to democracy after the death of dictator Francisco Franco...
...The priest delivering the homily at the reburial ceremony was Ramón Tejero, the son of Antonio Tejero, a former civil guards officer who mounted a failed coup against Spain’s democratic government in 1981...
...Here in the hospital we have had to treat missionaries with Ebola,” says José Ramón Arribas, head of the infectious diseases unit at Madrid’s La Paz hospital. “Ebola was nothing compared to this.”...
...Anti-independence activist Josep Ramon Bosch believes he is one of the innocent civilian victims of this clandestine fight....
...Compounding the sense of déjà-vu all over again is the hyper-lavish, super-kitschy, vastly overpopulated production introduced by Franco Zeffirelli in 1981 (now overseen and embellished by J....
...Under General Franco, until 1975, heavily censored “national” cinema centred on propagandist depictions of Spanish life....
...EU officials said the lack of an agreed Franco-German position had changed the tone of recent summits....
...Ramón Jáuregui, the government minister who has championed the Socialist administration’s “historical memory” law and who received the report on Tuesday, said the issue of the Valley of the Fallen was unfinished...
...Franco’s victory in 1939 brought about yet another transformation of ABC’s graphic output....
...Like every left-wing group in the world, Mexican artists were profoundly affected by Franco’s rebellion against the Spanish republic....
...Seat, the Spanish vehicle company originally established with the help of Italy’s Fiat in the Franco years and now owned by Volkswagen, has also been obliged to cut output at its huge Martorell plant outside...
...Ramón Vargas was her mellifluous Alfredo, Thomas Hampson his stern yet suave father....
...for Spain, because it will make government more stable,” says Miguel Herrero de Miñon, a conservative elder statesman who helped to draft Spain’s 1978 constitution after the death of General Francisco Franco...
...The miracle of mid 20th-century Barcelona, however, as told at the Fondation Maeght, is that these aspects co-existed with “Black Spain”, the Franco years when the avant-garde was suppressed, the press censored...
...Barcelona’s hub of avant-garde creativity was Els Quatre Gats (The Four Cats), a tavern founded in 1897 by four prominent artists including Ramon Casas, whose incisive portrait drawings and sensitive oils...
...With his inseparable friend and fellow modernista Ramon Casas, Rusiñol did the obligatory stint in Paris....
...Theatre people in Spain still remember the censorship of the Franco years and value the things that they had to fight very hard for. “Theatre really matters in Spain,” she says....
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