Archive for the 'News about Spain' Category

Thanks to astonishing performances by Jávea-born David Ferrer and an unwell Rafael Nadal, Spain won the 2011 Davis Cup battle for the fourth time in seven years. Spain’s two top stars battled it out in individual meets with the best Argentina could field, Nadal despatching Juan Mónaco in three sets before Ferrer capped a good year with an epic five-set victory over Argentina’s top player Juan Martín del Potro.Continue reading…Spain wins the Davis Cup – again!…

It was a proud day for Barcelona when one of its own buildings was named World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival Awards (WAF), which were held in the city recently.

Constructed in the shape of a cube, the Media-TIC building provides space for companies, research and training facilities, and was selected from a final shortlist of 16 imaginative and innovative designs.

Continue reading…The world’s best building is Spanish…

The 2011 Volvo Ocean Race was launched on its 39,000-mile journey from Spain’s Alicante on the Costa Blanca, at the beginning of November.

Continue reading…Volvo Ocean Race leaves from Alicante…

In a move that will surprise and please many local property owners, Jávea Town Hall recently decided to lower the rate of tax in order to help the finances of householders in the town.

From now on the payable rate will drop from 0.657% to 0.617%, which will represent a useful saving to many property owners in the area.

Continue reading…Local taxpayers offered a helping hand by Jávea Ayuntamiento…

The Spanish climate encourages a great deal of outdoor living and al fresco dining. While the BBQ has undergone a complete transformation over the past couple of decades, with gas-powered versions allowing amateur chefs a great deal more scope for invention, the usual combinations of meat and fish are still the most common dishes.

Continue reading…The coca – Spain’s BBQ secret weapon…

In a ceremony held on Friday 21^st October in Oviedo, the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen accepted his Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.

Cohen – an accomplished poet and novelist, although best known for his melancholic yet humorous songs – used his acceptance speech as a platform from which to praise Spain’s extraordinarily rich cultural life.

Continue reading…Leonard Cohen accepts the Prince of Asturias Award…

Researchers at Spain’s Superior Scientific Research Council (CSIC) have just completed the first phase of human clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, which looks set to revolutionise the medical world.

Over the past decade or so, the situation of AIDS sufferers has been significantly improved with the development and employment of antiretroviral drugs which, taken regularly, can effectively combat the damage done to the immune system by the HIV virus.

Continue reading…Spanish scientists create HIV vaccine…