Isambard Wilkinson
Spain Correspondent at The Times
Spain correspondent for The Times; formerly Pakistan, Hong Kong; author of Travels In A Dervish Cloak - a Spectator/New Statesman Book of Year about Pakistan
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thetimes.com | Isambard Wilkinson
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thetimes.com | Isambard Wilkinson
Tourists visiting Teide, Spain’s tallest mountain, on the Canary island of Tenerife will be charged an “eco tax”. It will be levied next year after complaints about “overtourism” in Teide national park. Rosa Dávila, the head of Tenerife’s governing council, said that security cameras would also be installed to control the number of visitors to the park.
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thetimes.com | Isambard Wilkinson
The shells habitually discarded under park benches and in bullfighting rings are evidence of a Spanish national vice — snacking on sunflower seeds. Roasted, lightly salted and sold by the bagful, to many they are as Spanish as paella and bring back memories of youth, holidays and shared moments with friends. But now the national snack is in the spotlight for a different reason: a football club has banned spectators from eating pipas on grounds of hygiene, leaving fans divided.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Isambard Wilkinson
The profusion of brilliant colours and designs of flounced flamenco dresses worn at Seville’s annual feria have dazzled visitors for more than a century. The style has inspired designers at Yves Saint Laurent and Dolce & Gabbana, not to mention Madonna. But as the week-long event began on Tuesday, experts raised fears that the growing availability of cheap flamenco dresses posed a threat to the city’s seamstresses.
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1 week ago |
thetimes.com | Isambard Wilkinson
The 19th-century grid layout of Barcelona’s Eixample district helped give rise to modern town planning and is regarded to be as historically important as Georges-Eugène Haussmann’s Paris. Its creator, Ildefons Cerdà, who coined the term “urbanisation”, was panned by his rivals for producing “one of the biggest horrors of the world” and for transforming spaces “into the monotony of an American city”.
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