Since Shakespeare’s day, Jerez de la Frontera has been renowned for its sherries. Now, they are served alongside a food culture that has really come into its own. If Falstaff once regaled sherry as bringing good ‘humor’, today he would no doubt wax lyrical about the wonderful mix of Andaluz flavours meeting contemporary creativity in the city.  Read more: Spain’s …

Tradition and identity of Mijas Credit: Peña Caballista Mijeña Peña Caballista de Mijas organised an event on Saturday, February 28, to commemorate the Day of Andalucia with over 60 horses and their riders taking route through Mijas’ lush and verdant countryside revitalised by recent rainfall. The Gomenaro River flowed abundantly for the first time after a long period of time. …

A pensioner who was tortured for a drug debt hurled himself out of an apartment window. After a night filled with violence and captivity, the police claim that the 74-year-old man crashed into a car parked below on Friday, February 26. Officers from the Policía Nacional later arrested a 35-year-old woman accused of tying the pensioner to a chair, beating …