For the past 15 years I’ve lived and worked in Barcelona. Barcelona is beautiful, and vain. She spends her time looking in the mirror,...

‘Sometimes we give to the devil what he already has.’ The historian and novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte shaped his career as a war...

Abre Los Ojos (1997) From the moment we follow Eduardo Noriega’s handsome, twenty-something yuppy Cesar driving out of the garage of his...

Name: Capçanes Occupation: Catalan village, located in the El Vall foothills of the Priorat region. In the news because: It’s the site of...

Can you tell your bolos from your botiflers? Or a morlaco from a mangurrino? Then read on, and you'll be ready if some gent calls you a...

Name: Stone Pine In Spanish: Pino piñonero AKA: Parasol pine, umbrella pine, pinus pinea. The handsome umbrella canopy and bright green...

During his time as an Erasmus student in Barcelona, Dr. Olaf Jordbear-Knutssen (b. Aarhus, 1959) dedicated himself to an exhaustive...

This week, a postmodern take on the hardboiled detective novel, the Planeta-award winning and internationally acclaimed Los Mares del...

Mar Adentro (2004) ‘When you spend so long in people’s care, you learn to cry with a smile.’ In Alejandro Amenábar’s moving film, Javier...

Name: Carles Puigdemont Age: 53 Appearance: Mop-topped German football coach Joachim Low, with nerdy specs. In the news because: He's...