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1 week ago | 
thetimes.com | Andrea Blanco |David Sharrock
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | David Sharrock
As many as 400 people are feared dead after once-in-a-generation flooding hit Spain, with the southeast of the country braced for yet more heavy rain. Some 202 people are known to have died in the flash floods and at least another 200 are missing in the Valencia province. Hundreds of troops have joined the search for survivors and bodies. Several areas of Valencia and Castellón, as well as the south of Tarragona, are under an orange warning from Aemet, Spain’s meteorological agency.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | David Sharrock
Marisol Lara will never forget the wailing of the elderly as the waters rose higher and higher. Sobbing inconsolably as she carries two five-litre bottles of water which she procured after queuing for two hours, Lara, 62, recounts the sudden catastrophe — Spain’s worst flash floods in a generation — which have devastated this town on the outskirts of Valencia.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Isambard Wilkinson |David Sharrock
Hopes have all but faded for finding survivors after flash floods wrought massive destruction and claimed at least 95 lives in southeast Spain. It is feared that the death toll could rise substantially because the exact number of missing people is unknown. Margarita Robles, the defence minister, said she was not optimistic about the death toll stabilising. She said teams on Thursday would start combing through the mud and debris with sniffer dogs.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Isambard Wilkinson |David Sharrock
At least 95 people,including four children, have died after flash floods devastated southeastern parts of Spain in one of the worst natural disasters in the country’s modern history. The widespread flooding was caused by torrential rainfall, with reports claiming that as much as a year’s worth of rain fell in eight hours in the Valencia region. Video of the damage in Almeria and Valencia showed swollen rivers of floodwater overwhelming streets and sweeping away vehicles.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | David Sharrock
The site of the bloody thwarting of an insurrection and the execution place of a political leader, the “Cursed Mountain” in Barcelona is the city’s unlikely new hope for a tourism magnet to draw visitors away from the crowded Sagrada Família and Las Ramblas. In 1842 an insurrection was brutally suppressed by Baldomero Espartero, the Spanish regent, who ordered that the city be bombarded by cannon from the Montjuïc mountain.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | David Sharrock
The people of Valls in Catalonia started building human towers more than 200 years ago, as their way of upgrading a dance from Valencia. What began in this town of 25,000 people has spread in the past 50 years, and now more than 100 clubs, or colles, regularly form towers across Catalonia, and there are aficionados and practitioners as far away as China and Chile. “Going up makes you braver, gives you nerves of desire instead of fear,” said Joan Ibarra, a “casteller” who takes part in the feats.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | David Sharrock
The disgraced former king of Spain was filmed and photographed having sex with a television presenter by her teenage son as part of a plot to bribe him, according to new allegations. Angel Cristo was 13 in 1994 when he claims his mother, Barbara Rey, put pressure on him to take clandestine photographs while she was with King Juan Carlos at their home in suburban Madrid. He made more photographs available after selling some to a Dutch magazine last month.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | David Sharrock
In Cavalariça, a restaurant in a converted stable, the beautiful people cross oceans to dine in horse stalls on Alentejo pork croquettes served with mussels mayonnaise. Welcome to Comporta, capital of Portugal’s “betos” — the moneyed classes. Known as Europe’s last paradise, where even in low season its 60 kilometres of silken beaches an hour south of Lisbon entice global celebrities.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | David Sharrock
The Three Chimneys used to belch soot from a Franco-era power station over a poor working-class neighbourhood. Today they are the brutalist backdrop to Barcelona’s coastal skyline. The site has been vacant since 2011 and temporarily houses a contemporary art exhibition in an old turbine room. But it could hold an answer to drawing visitors away from Barcelona’s saturated city centre.
