Three Kings Day Celebration in Madrid
Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy (R) talks to Spain’s Minister of Defence Pedro Morenes Eulate (C) and Spain’s Minister of Interior Affairs Jorge Fernandez Diaz (L) during the Pascua Militar ceremony on January 6, 2012 at the Royal palace in Madrid. Today 6th of January, 2012, Their Majesties King Juan Carlos I de Borbon and [...]
PP Mariano Rajoy becomes Spanish Prime Minister
Spain voted a new prime minister back on the 20th of November. As it was generally expected Popular Party (PP) accomplished a crushing victory over the ruling socialists, obtaining more than 10.7 million votes and earning 186 out of the 350 Parliament seats. It took Mariano Rajoy of PP three attempts to become Spain’s Prime [...]
Global Revolution Day Protest in Madrid, Spain
Spain Indignant Movement acquired today, October 15th, 2011, an international scale, as in 82 countries and more than 950 cities around the world similar protests were held. Around half a million people made a stand against corporate greed and government cutbacks for a “global change” to the economic, political and social situation. The images shot [...]
The Heat at the Spanish National Day Parade in Madrid
If you were in Madrid (Spain) this fine morning of October 12, 2011 you would have probably attended the military parade of the Spanish National Day, very close to Atocha train station. We could have even bumped against each other, but no, I do not think so. It may seem strange but the bigger the [...]
Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party Political Conference in Madrid – Spain
Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party held a Political Conference 2011 in Madrid, Spain. The convention, was scheduled to start on the 30th of September, and for 3 days it was the basis of socialist manifesto for the general elections this November 2011. More than 2.000 PSOE sympathizers and activists were expected to attend. The national convention [...]
Cascamorras grease-smeared festival kicks-off in Baza, Spain
The Spanish town of Baza hosts the Festival of Cascamorras where revelers, with their bodies and faces smeared with black grease, simulate a historic clash between Baza and Guadix for the ownership of the statue of Our Lady of Mercy. Spain. 6th September, 2011. According to legend, the origin of “La Fiesta del Cascamorras” can [...]
La Tomatina Annual Tomato-throwing Festival Begins in Buñol
La Tomatina is a food-fight festival celebrated annually every last Wednesday of August in the Spanish town of Bunol, near Valencia. Thousands of participants come together from all over the world to pelt mercilessly fellow revelers with ripe tomatoes, hurling them at each other in a brutal battle where streets end up flooded with dark [...]
The Thompsons from Alaska attend their 9th World Youth Day – Madrid, Spain
World Youth Day, a tradition started by Pope John Paul II in 1986, the event draws hundreds of thousands of youth from all over the world and takes place every three years at different locations around the globe. With the theme of “Rooted and built up in Jesus Christ, Firm in the Faith (Col 2:7)”, [...]
Rome’s Nature and Landscapes in Madrid
Museo del Prado likewise other big museums forbids photographing on its premises, especially using on-camera flash. Ancient masterpieces could be damaged by the intense light emitted by the strobe, but if you choose to discreetly steal a shot using only existing lighting, especially when the guards are not looking, the results can be surprising. Prado [...]
Indignant Movement Protest in Madrid
The “Spanish Revolution” or “15-M Movement” announced yesterday, June 19th, 2011 that over 21 Spanish cities shall originate popular marches towards the Capital to protest against the Euro Plus Pact and how the economic crisis is being mitigated by the politicians. The announcement was made at the general assembly held in Madrid’s Puerta del Sol, [...]
“Back to Life” at Al Andaluz Photo Festival 2011
Starting the 18th of March through the 20th Granada (Spain) shall host Al Andaluz Photo Festival featuring conferences, exhibitions and workshops. World renown photographers such as Emilio Morenatti, Sergio Caro, Pablo Juliá and others shall participate in debates and workshops. The festival nights shall hold projections of established and emerging photographers and journalists. Among the [...]
Happy Holidays from “Back to Life” Project
“La independencia siempre fue mi deseo; la dependencia siempre fue mi destino.” Paul Verlaine Jorge Pozuelo and Ervin Sarkisov on behalf of “Back to Life” project wish you Happy Holidays!
Ebro Delta Ecosystem Health Concerns
The Ebro Delta natural park is an area of more than 123.5 square miles and it is the second most important wetland at the Iberian peninsula. It is located some 110 miles south-west of Barcelona, the second biggest city of Spain. The park of the Delta de l’Ebre includes a completely flat space that combines [...]
Bucharest, The Little Paris of the East, isn’t that ironic?
When France decided to send Roma Gypsies back to Romania, alleging that it was a “decent and humane” policy to remove people from deplorable conditions back to their homeland, it was also well aware that the Romanian citizens are members of the European Union. And despite of not being part of the Schengen Treaty, restricting [...]
Madrid Vallecas District’s Naval Battle
The Naval Battle of Vallecas is a 30 years old water-fight tradition, where locals and occasional visitors engage into a most refreshing brawl to honor the local patron Saint Virgen del Carmen in Madrid’s southern district of Vallecas. This year the celebration acquired an additional significance, meant to be a sign of discontent against the [...]
Spanish “Shearing of the Beasts” Festival
Every year thousands of tourists arrive to the Galician village of Sabucedo (Spain) to participate in the 400-year-old festival ‘Rapa das bestas’, the Shearing of the Beasts. Several hundreds of wild horses are rounded up from the nearby mountains and put into the village’s pen to be marked and their mane and tails trimmed. This [...]
Hundred umbrellas on World Refugee Day
Today the 20th of June we celebrate the World Refugee Day. According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 43 million people now require international protection in the world, the highest number since the mid 90s. There are two indisputable indicators of solidarity of a country: development cooperation metrics and commitment to [...]
Living in a Mountain Cave Home
We dream of having a home, a small place to hang a hat after getting back from a hard day’s work. It was always like that and it shall always be, as all dreams start with a house where to form a family, play with children, buy a dog and plant a tree (some family [...]
Legitimacy to Judge the Crimes of Francisco Franco
SPAIN, Madrid: A woman marches in memory of her deceased relative, killed during the Franco dictatorship, during a demonstration in support of Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon on April 24, 2010, in Madrid. The protest was called to support Garzon who faces trial for allegedly overstepping his power while investigating crimes committed during the Franco dictatorship [...]
