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Share Oriol Cardona made history by winning the gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in the ski-mountaineering sprint. It is a landmark achievement for Spanish sport, marking the country’s first gold medal at a Winter Games since Francisco Fernández Ochoa won the slalom in Sapporo back in 1972. Cardona, the undisputed world number one who arrived as the Milano-Cortina …

The Spanish police arrested a man aged 20 for using a sophisticated scam to book hotel rooms in luxury hotels at just a cent a night. The first such case involving manipulation was the online payment system used for hotel bookings. Although no one denies that this may have been done before, it went unnoticed. The suspect, a Spanish national, …

The modern Spanish licence plate system will continue to evolve as new letters sequences are introduced in 2026. Credit : Ernest Rose, Shutterstock Many drivers in Spain notice that the lettering on number plates has changed. It isn’t a change that would make the news overnight, but it is a noticeable difference. It is important to note that the word …