Italy extends border controls with Spain for another 15 days as Madrid responds with reciprocal measure
The Italian Government has decided to extend for another 15 days border controls at ports and airports for travellers arriving ...
Month: August 2026
Spain and China strengthen ties between local governments through new dialogue involving more than 40 cities
Relations between Spain and China are expanding beyond traditional diplomatic channels. Representatives from 23 Spanish cities and more than 20 ...
Philip IV’s instructions on prostitutes and ambassadors of “evil life”
Philip IV, a king well known, among other reasons, for his frequent infidelities, love affairs and illegitimate children, was scandalized ...
The cricket player who ran away from Derbyshire and founded his Corte Inglés in Madrid
El Corte Inglés, the biggest Spanish distribution company and one of the most important of the world, has always taken ...
History of Leon V, exiled King of Armenia and feudal lord of Madrid
Between the Cerro Almodóvar Park and the Vía Carpetana, in the Aluche neighbourhood in southwest Madrid, is the Leon V ...
Spanish government “categorically” rejects any questioning of Spanish sovereignty over Ceuta and Melilla
The Spanish government has responded firmly to fresh statements by Morocco’s Justice Minister, Abdellatif Ouahbi, concerning Ceuta and Melilla, formally ...
The failure of the first Persian embassy to the Spain of Felipe III
Between Isfahan, in Iran, and Valladolid, in Spain, there are 6,388 kilometres taking the shortest route and the trip can ...
Juan, Felipe and Diego of Persia: Muslim converts in the Spanish Court
The embassy that Shāh Abbās the Great sent to Felipe III to try to form a great alliance against the ...
US and Germany’s Ambassadors, guests of the same hotel in the Second World War
What were the US and Germany’s Ambassadors doing in the same hotel of San Sebastián in August 1943, in the ...
Why did General Franco revive the Duty Ministry tradition in 1943?
In August 1943, General Franco's government revived the historical role of the Duty Ministry, an “old custom interrupted by the ...
