Filmoteca revives Andalucian Super-8 home movies A new project by La Filmoteca Española aims to collect and digitalise home movies made by Andalucians in the 1960s and 1970s. The idea behind Proyecto Mi Vida is to create a digital archive of family films, showing regional travel,…

Personal account of the Cascamorras Festival in Baza Journalist Anastasia Sukhanova and Sarah Gatward with her GoPro were thrilled to run alongside anther 12.000 in the Cascamorras, Baza. Personal account of the Cascamorras Festival in Baza Guest post by Anastasia Sukhanova >6th…

Game of Thrones Season 7 to film in Andalucia again The Alcazar as seen in Game of Thrones - the palace of Prince Doran, ruler of the Kingdom of Dorne. For the third season running, HBO's globally successful, multi-award-winning fantasy drama series Game of Thrones will be filmed in…

Dolmens of Antequera win UNESCO World Heritage status Map of Dolmens de Antequera, shown as  small red dots (C)Instituto de Estadistica y Cartografia de Andalucia As expected, Andalucia's latest UNESCO World Heritage site was confirmed recently: the Dolmens of Antequera were…

Summer in Seville 2016 The night concerts in the Alcazar start on on 14 July. As the mercury soars into the low 40s (low 100 F), nightlife and cultural activities move outside and upwards - onto terraces, often on rooftops, to catch any possible slight evening breeze; and…

Me Vuelves Lorca: summer cultural festival in Alpujarras open-air theatre Me Vuelves Lorca 2016 A couple of years ago on this blog, I interviewed a dynamic and enterprising Brit called Anna Kemp, who was organising a project to build a mountainside open-air theatre in the tiny Alpjuarras…

Acting Prime Minister Rajoy's statement about immediate impact of Brexit vote Yesterday, 23 June 2016, British people voted to leave the European Union. The final share of the Brexit Referendum was Leave 51.9% (17.4 million votes) and Remain 48.1% (16.1 million votes).…

Solar Impulse 2 is a solar-powered electric plane currently crossing the Atlantic. First-ever transatlantic solar electric flight to land in Seville In a few hours, at around 5am tomorrow, Thursday 23 June, a historic event will take place at Seville's San Pablo airport. The…

A mosque in Seville at last? For a number of years - over a decade - the Islamic community has been trying to build a mosque in Seville. As anyone who has ever visited the city will be aware, during the 500-year period when the Seville was an Islamic city, it had a number of mosques,…

Andalucia's monuments on the world stage: from prehistoric to islamic The interior of the Mezquita of Cordoba, Europe's fourth-top attraction, according to Trip Advisor users. Trip Advisor has just released its top ten landmarks in Europe, as voted by users of the frighteningly …