halloween
Everything you need to know about Halloween in Spain.
Halloween: Spain's most haunted places
Spain may not really celebrate Halloween like the US does, but it has more than its fair share of reportedly haunted spots and ghostly sightings. Here are some of the scariest places to visit in Spain if you're on the hunt for paranormal activity.
IN PICS: This is how All Saints' Day is celebrated in Madrid
Madrid’s biggest cemetery is the final resting place for more than five million dead, a veritable city of tombs and niches that stretches out from the east of the city towards the airport.
Panellets: How to make the traditional Catalan Halloween treat
As autumn turns into winter you will see braziers set up on street corners and town squares across Spain selling baked sweet potatoes and aromatic roasted chestnuts.
Drones to enforce coronavirus rules at Madrid cemeteries on All Saints' Day
Madrid city hall said Wednesday it will deploy drones at two of the largest cemeteries in the Spanish capital on All Saints' Day to ensure virus restrictions are respected.
Spain’s Halloween puente: Warmer than usual but take an umbrella
Whatever your plans over the puente – the long weekend that incorporates the national bank holiday on November 1 – be warned that over much of the peninsula, rain is a possibility.
Ten very creepy Halloween costume ideas from Spain
Tired of the usual witches, vampires and zombie costumes? There's plenty of creepiness in Spanish culture to use as inspiration.
Spanish police nab French hitman in devil costume
A fugitive hitman on France's most-wanted list has been arrested in Spain disguised in a devil's costume at a Halloween celebration, police said on Friday.
'Saints not ghouls' insists Spanish church for Halloween
Spanish bishops are fighting back against the popularity of the "satanic festival" of Halloween by urging good Christian children to forgo zombie, ghost and devil outfits and instead dress up as "saints, virgins and apostles".
Eight Spanish films to truly terrify you this Halloween
Looking for something to give you goosebumps this Halloween? The Local looks at eight Spanish films that are sure to have you cowering beneath the covers.
Halloween weekend: Sunny skies and nightmare traffic
Forecasters are predicting great weather across Spain over the next few days which means many Spaniards will be making the most of it with a long weekend break.
Eight very creepy Halloween costumes ideas from Spain
Forget flamenco dancers and bullfighters, The Local counts down the freakiest alternative costume ideas to dress up in this Halloween.
Spain court jails five over deadly Halloween stampede
A Spanish court on Tuesday jailed five men over the stampede deaths of five young women at an overcrowded Halloween event they organised in 2012.
Fifteen go on trial over the Madrid Halloween stampede that killed five
The trial over a deadly Halloween stampede in Madrid opened on Tuesday, three years after five young women were crushed at a rave party in an overcrowded stadium, prompting one of the Spanish capital's deputy mayors to resign.
Spanish bishop forbids Halloween after branding it a 'satanic festival'
There will be no trick or treating for children in one corner of southern Spain this weekend, after the Bishop of Cádiz banned Halloween parties, calling the popular holiday a "satanic festival".
Halloween tragedy jail terms an ‘insult’: mum
Two years after five young women were killed in Madrid Halloween party disaster, the mother of one victim makes a passionate plea for justice as the case judge also slams Spain’s court system.
Top politically incorrect Carnival costumes 2014
With Spain's crazy carnival period already upon us, The Local has put together a list of politically questionable costumes that are bound to get people's tongues wagging.