Welcome to Spain: the land of lazy, corrupt macho men. Or maybe not. Avoid bringing up these topics of conversation with a Spaniard unless you want some serious egg on your face.
While millions of tourists flock to Spain every year to visit amazing galleries like the Prado and the Reina Sofia, the country is also home a wealth of other lesser-known museums you may not know. Here are ten of the best.
The editor of Spain's biggest satirical magazine was assaulted on Wednesday after the publication ran a front cover decrying the rise of far-right politics in Europe.
Don't mess with tradition. That's the angry message from angry conservative politicians after local councils in Madrid decided to swap queens for kings in a massive annual Christmas parade.
A group of friends from northern Spain have received national attention after accidentally crashing a luxury wedding reception at the other end of the country.
Madrid's conservative regional government will now spend more than €400,000 on helping domestic violence victims after rival parties demanded generous bullfighting subsidies be slashed.
A Madrid couple who hired an assassin in a bid to inherit an undertaking business have been handed lengthy jail terms after things didn’t work out quite as planned.
In news sure to please frustrated beach lovers the world over, the Costa del Sol town of Torrox has outlawed the practice of 'reserving' a desirable spot on the sand by laying out unattended towels and beach umbrellas.
In a case of the wheels of justice barely turning at all, a family in Spain's Valencia region have finally won their battle to have an unlicensed social club in their building shut down.
One from the archives: After two years at the helm of The Local Spain, George Mills is moving on. Here he reflects on some of the most puzzling aspects of life in a country he believes is one of the greatest places to live in the world.
A High Court judge ordered searches of several Madrid government offices on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into a massive kickbacks scheme involving politicians and businessmen across the country.
The President of Catalonia Artur Mas announced on Wednesday that voters in the region will go to the polls in 2015. Pro-independence parties will not however, join forces to win the election.
Spanish people have been told to pay special attention to people of Arab origin carrying large amounts of cash or video cameras outside of tourist areas as part of new anti-terror measures.
A freezing Russian winter and high transport costs have postponed the return voyage of a new train which operators hope will regularly travel the 13,000-kilometre (8,000-mile) route between Madrid and the Chinese city of Yiwu.
The head of Spain's new Podemos party in Seville landed herself in hot water on Monday after she appeared to suggest the city's iconic Semana Santa festival could become a thing of the past.
Prosecutors are pushing for a three-year prison term for a man who was filmed attacking a young Spaniard born in Mongolia on Barcelona's underground railway system in June 2014.
