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Road trip roulette: Spain braces for 5.34 million All Saints journeys.

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Road trip roulette: Spain braces for 5.34 million All Saints journeys

Anyone heading out on the Costa Blanca this weekend may want to allow a little ...

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End of the double act? Benidorm targets two-seater mobility scooters.

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End of the double act? Benidorm targets two-seater mobility scooters

Pull the udder one: The tale of Javea’s extraordinary swimming cow.

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Pull the udder one: The tale of Javea’s extraordinary swimming cow

Saving Santa María Magdalena: Restoration begins at Novelda’s landmark.

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Saving Santa María Magdalena: Restoration begins at Novelda’s landmark

A blurred image of a woman looking at pictures in a museum similar to that of the Contemporary Museum of Art Alicante

Hidden Gems

Explore modern masterpieces in Alicante’s oldest civil building

Less demand, more dinero: Spain’s foreign property market gets complicated.

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Less demand, more dinero: Spain’s foreign property market gets complicated

A pumpkin getting ready for the night before All Saint's Day in Galicia.

La Cultura

All Saints’ Day, the Spanish way: Candles and chestnuts

Know before you go: Reserve car parking across the Costa Blanca.

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Know before you go: Reserve car parking across the Costa Blanca

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Death by marzipan: The curious story of Spain’s Huesos de Santo.

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Death by marzipan: The curious story of Spain’s Huesos de Santo

As All Saints’ Day approaches, bakery windows across Spain fill with buñuelos de viento, panellets and one of the country’s more gloriously macabre ...

Mosto de Uva: From grape to glass and no hangover in sight!

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Mosto de Uva: From grape to glass and no hangover in sight!

Before grapes become wine, there is mosto. Sweet, fruity and naturally alcohol-free when freshly pressed, mosto de uva is simply grape juice taken ...

Arrop i Tallaetes: The Valencian sweet made with grapes, pumpkin and patience.

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Arrop i Tallaetes: The Valencian sweet made with grapes, pumpkin and patience

Long before supermarket shelves groaned under the weight of chocolate bars, biscuits and bags of sweets, Valencian families had a rather different way ...

A heart shaped churro that has just been dipped in chocolate.

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Churro perfection: A crunchy journey through time and taste

You haven’t truly experienced Spain until you’ve grabbed a churro and dunked it into warm, melted chocolate. Yum! Churros might look like ...

Spanish vinegar explained: Jerez, Reserva, balsámico and all the rest.

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Spanish vinegar explained: Jerez, Reserva, balsámico and all the rest

Olive oil might get all the attention in Spain, but wander a little further along the supermarket aisle and its sharper companion presents ...

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Ye olde Elche: The Medieval Festival returns for 17 days of history.

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Ye olde Elche: The Medieval Festival returns for 17 days of history

Elche is preparing to turn back the clock for more than two weeks as its Medieval Festival returns with street ...

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Enjoy more Local Events on the Costa Blanca.

Local Events

Twice as nice: Jacqueline’s Charity Shop celebrates two years in Sax

Two years ago, Jacqueline Dale opened a charity shop in Sax. This November, she will be ...

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Costume drama: Benidorm ready for Europe’s biggest fancy dress party

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Spoilt for scares: The best Halloween events across the Costa Blanca

Oliva in the Costa Blanca hit by Storm Adam and eligible for the support package

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Valencia unveils €23.5M lifeline after Storm Adam’s flooding

Thirteen reasons to get hungry: San Vicente’s Tapas Trail returns.

Thirteen reasons to get hungry: San Vicente’s Tapas Trail returns

A match burning.

Burning garden waste: The official way to avoid fines

A clock in a tree to represent Spain in a different time zone.

Why is Spain in the wrong time zone? The history explained

Autumn Fun

Spoilt for scares: The best Halloween events across the Costa Blanca.

Local Events

Spoilt for scares: The best Halloween events across the Costa Blanca

Halloween has well and truly escaped the fancy-dress cupboard on the Costa Blanca. Town halls across the region are preparing everything from children’s ...

Costume drama: Benidorm ready for Europe’s biggest fancy dress party.

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Costume drama: Benidorm ready for Europe’s biggest fancy dress party

If you see 30,000 superheroes, pirates, nurses, cowboys and people wearing costumes that defy easy explanation wandering around Benidorm, do not panic. It ...

Cocentaina’s Fira de Tots Sants: 680 years of history, food and exhibitors

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Cocentaina’s Fira de Tots Sants: 680 years of history, food and exhibitors

For one weekend every autumn, Cocentaina becomes one enormous marketplace. More than 800 exhibitors, medieval streets, an Arab souk, live music, circus shows, ...

Vinyl destination: Orihuela’s first Record Fair is ready to spin.

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Vinyl destination: Orihuela’s first Record Fair is ready to spin

Vinyl fans will have a new place to go crate digging next month when Orihuela holds its first ever Record Fair. Auditorio La ...

Ye olde Elche: The Medieval Festival returns for 17 days of history.

Local Events

Ye olde Elche: The Medieval Festival returns for 17 days of history

Elche is preparing to turn back the clock for more than two weeks as its Medieval Festival returns with street performances, music, theatre, ...

Spanish Culture

The White Lady’s warning: A ghostly looking woman captured in a haunted house's mirror.

La Cultura

The White Lady’s warning: Hauntings at Aigües de Busot

Menú del día: From Franco’s tourist menu to a lunchtime institution.

La Cultura

Menú del día: From Franco’s tourist menu to a lunchtime institution

Trasmoz: Spain’s cursed village with a Halloween night to raise the dead.

La Cultura

Trasmoz: Spain’s cursed village with a Halloween night to raise the dead

Spain’s only pyramid: A curious landmark with a serious past.

Spain’s only pyramid: A curious landmark with a serious past

Glass half doubtful: Can you drink tap water on the Costa Blanca?

Glass half doubtful: Can you drink tap water on the Costa Blanca?

Two witches being hung, a display the Museo de las Brujas in Zugarramurdi.

Whispers in the witches’ cave: the legend of Zugarramurdi

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Less demand, more dinero: Spain’s foreign property market gets complicated.

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Less demand, more dinero: Spain’s foreign property market gets complicated

Saving Santa María Magdalena: Restoration begins at Novelda’s landmark.

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Saving Santa María Magdalena: Restoration begins at Novelda’s landmark

Know before you go: Reserve car parking across the Costa Blanca.

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Know before you go: Reserve car parking across the Costa Blanca

Best bread in the Med: Villena loaf rises to the occasion.

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Best bread in the Med: Villena loaf rises to the occasion

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Where are all the taxis? Benidorm hopes new system has the answer

Finding a taxi in Benidorm could become easier during busy summer days, holiday weekends and ...

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End of the double act? Benidorm targets two-seater mobility scooters

Mobility scooters and Benidorm have become almost synonymous over the years, particularly around the resort’s ...

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Torrevieja bus changes: All aboard as lines 1, 2 and 8 get new routes

Getting from several of Torrevieja’s southern urbanisations into the town centre is about to become ...

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