After all the hustle and bustle, crowds and excitement, of Semana Santa, my family and I went to the sierra for the last part of the week. I still kept tabs on the pasos in Seville, where the forecast for Thursday meant that it was unlikely that the Madrugada - processions which leave their…
This year, Semana Santa all across Andalucia has, yet again, been adversely affected by the weather. Rain stopped pasos from coming out to do their processions in cities like Malaga, Granada and Sevilla, on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Yesterday, to the delight of many, all eight hermandades made…
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Friday 23 March saw the inauguration of an usual exhibition by local artist Carlos Aires in the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Málaga.
Carlos Aires was born in Ronda, Málaga, in 1974. He studied Fine Art in Granada, specializing in sculpture, and completed a Masters in…
It's unusual for this blog to have three posts in a row about politics, but then this has been quite a week.
First of all, the PP failed to win its widely-predicted majority in the Andalucian Parliament in last Sunday's elections, leaving the regional president in a political no-man's-land,…
So, the Andalucian people went to the polls yesterday to vote for a new regional parliament, and they went for... the PP, by a hair's breadth.
It was a real cliffhanger - at 10pm, the PSOE was actually leading, but then their lead dropped, they went neck-and-neck with the PP, and the PP just…
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This Sunday elections for the Junta de Andalucia (Andalucian Parliament) will take place. A president will be chosen, who will then form a government responsible for an annual budget of €33 billion and an ever increasing range of public services.
This campaign has been…
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Recently, I was lucky enough to attend a press preview at the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga for their new temporary exhibition, which opens on 31 March and runs until 7 October 2012.
43 works will be displayed in a show entitled ‘Paradises and Landscapes in the…
Last weekend was the second edition of Ecosevilla, following the launch event last October.
There were more stands - 100, up from 70 - and the hall at FIBES Conference Centre looked and felt busier and fuller. There were stalls with organic food, drink, sustainable energy, handmade toys,…
One of the most famous hotels in Andalucia, the Alfonso XIII reopens to the public today after a nine-month, 20-million-euro refurbishment. A landmark in Sevilla, it is a huge, imposing building situated next to the Fabrica de Tabacos, just off Puerta de Jerez.
The hotel was built by the eponymous…
The English love their Seville orange marmalade on toast for breakfast. Every January and February, the cooking pages of magazines and newspapers, as well as the fast-growing food blog sector, are filled with recipes using the famously bitter naranjo amargo. And Sevillanos can't help but fall…