Who has ever traveled to visit the settings where a particular novel takes place knows very well that there is no more rewarding tourism than literary tourism. The Culture section confirms today the rise of this type of visits inspired by good literature. Planning…
More than one person decided last February that this summer they would spend it in the isolated and gloomy moors of Yorkshire, in northern England. Not to take refuge in a place with less stifling temperatures, but because they were stunned after seeing Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi act in those settings in the latest audiovisual adaptation of Wuthering Heights, directed by Emerald Fennell. The film unleashed Brontëmania and caused, on the one hand, the novel’s sales to soar by 504% in just two days, according to data provided by Amazon; and, on the other hand, hotels and tourist apartments in the area to notice a significant increase in occupancy.
The Plaza of Palma Cathedral, an excellent viewpoint to the sea from the city walls, is the heart of mass tourism and the point through which surely every one of the 13.6 million tourists who visited Mallorca last year passed. Everyone who comes to the island takes a photo there during their stay. The consequence is that one of the most beautiful places in the city is off-limits to residents, just like other key points of a Palma increasingly hostile to its inhabitants
The Spanish university system has thinned out in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), better known as the Shanghai ranking, which measures the top one thousand universities in the world in terms of scientific production. Numerically, five years ago there were 40 campuses in total and now only 30 appear. From the 2025 to the 2026 publication, eight Spanish universities have dropped out (including Carlos III and Lleida), although two new ones have entered (Juan Carlos I and Valladolid).
An earthquake of magnitude 5 was felt in the early hours of this Saturday in southern Spain, with its epicenter in the municipality of Alhendín in the province of Granada, Andalusia, and it has caused various material damages, but no injuries.
Right-wing radical patriots gladly ride the migratory waves. They are their preferred media shock, caused by the “invasion” of the external enemy, allowing hardline solutions and, for their leaders, to appear as the necessary saviors of the homeland in troubled times. They are…
To measure the situation that Ceuta is still going through, one can use, as the political authorities insist, the figures of immigrants who remain in the autonomous city. Although they vary: about 5,000 people according to the central Government, which the people of Ceuta raise to 9,000.
Two weeks after the massive entry that overflowed Ceuta, the border faces a new day under surveillance this Saturday. Morocco deployed an extraordinary device yesterday in response to calls on social networks to cross it again from Fnideq (Castillejos). Thousands of agents and military personnel, road controls, patrols in the forests, and new barriers in the sea are part of an operation aimed at preventing the entry of tens of thousands of people recorded last July 30 from happening again today.
La Guardia Urbana de Barcelona has arrested this afternoon a man suspected of having started the fire that burned ten hectares of the Collserola mountain range. A few minutes after the first flames were detected, a municipal police patrol patrolling Pearson Avenue saw a man acting suspiciously, quickly leaving the place. The police stopped him, identified him as he could not specify what he was doing there exactly, and among his belongings found two lighters.
The Welsh cyclist Finlay Tarling, 19 years old, a member of the NSN development team, owned by Andrés Iniesta, died this Friday in an accident while participating in the eighth stage of the Volta a Portugal, according to the race organization. The boy was the brother of fellow cyclist Joshua Tarling (Ineos), 22 years old, world track champion in 2025, and world road bronze medalist (2023).