https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Paintings by masters including El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo and Goya from New York's Frick Collection have returned to Spain for the first time in more than a century for a temporary exhibition. https://www.thelocal.es/20230307/spanish-masterpieces-return-to-madrid-after-more-than-a-century Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:35:42 +0100 spanish-masterpieces-return-to-madrid-after-more-than-a-century Top Spanish fashion designers Victorio and Lucchino, who have dressed singers and aristocrats, on Thursday inaugurated a museum dedicated to their works in their southern home region of Andalusia. https://www.thelocal.es/20220624/top-spanish-designers-victorio-and-lucchino-get-own-museum Fri, 24 Jun 2022 12:41:13 +0200 top-spanish-designers-victorio-and-lucchino-get-own-museum Madrid's Reina Sofia is preparing to reopen with new social distancing and hygiene measures in place. https://www.thelocal.es/20200505/how-spains-museums-are-adapting-to-reopen-in-pandemic-era Tue, 05 May 2020 12:11:52 +0200 how-spains-museums-are-adapting-to-reopen-in-pandemic-era Letters thrown from death trains, tiny children's shoes, a Nazi gas mask... Hundreds of objects from Auschwitz are going on display in Madrid as a roving exhibition on the Nazi extermination camp opens. https://www.thelocal.es/20171130/holocaust-exhibition-comes-to-madrid Thu, 30 Nov 2017 10:27:23 +0100 holocaust-exhibition-comes-to-madrid Spain is home to some of the finest museums in the world, but it also boasts some of the most bizarre. From the museum dedicated entirely to melons to the museum of toilets, The Local counts down Spain's weirdest. https://www.thelocal.es/20160825/the-10-weirdest-museums-in-spain Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:48:58 +0200 the-10-weirdest-museums-in-spain While millions of tourists flock to Spain every year to visit amazing galleries like the Prado and the Reina Sofia, the country is also home a wealth of other lesser-known museums you may not know. Here are ten of the best. https://www.thelocal.es/20160824/off-the-beaten-track-ten-great-spanish-museums Wed, 24 Aug 2016 09:49:00 +0200 off-the-beaten-track-ten-great-spanish-museums Work on Europe's first underwater museum began off the coast of the Canary Island of Lanzarote on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.es/20160201/canary-islands-embark-on-europes-first-underwater-museum Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:23:44 +0100 canary-islands-embark-on-europes-first-underwater-museum Although not bathed in Mallorca's light, a London gallery has recreated in minute detail the Mediterranean sunshine island studio of Spanish painter Joan Miró. https://www.thelocal.es/20160118/studio-of-spanish-surrealist-joan-miro-recreated-in-london Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:40:51 +0100 studio-of-spanish-surrealist-joan-miro-recreated-in-london Madrid's Prado Museum came in fourth place in awards for the best museums in the world - ahead of the famous Louvre in Paris. The Local takes a look at Spain's top ten greatest cultural institutions. https://www.thelocal.es/20150916/prado-beats-the-louvre-in-awards-for-best-museums-in-the-world Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:00:48 +0200 prado-beats-the-louvre-in-awards-for-best-museums-in-the-world Tourists are a bigger problem for the inhabitants of Barcelona than poverty, according to a new poll, reflecting growing tensions as officials crack down on the numerous and at times misbehaving tourists. https://www.thelocal.es/20150710/barcelonia-says-tourists-bigger-problem-than-poverty Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:20:53 +0200 barcelonia-says-tourists-bigger-problem-than-poverty A silver and bronze plaque commemorating the launch of the ultimately doomed ocean liner had been presumed to be lost for 100 years, before reemerging a few days ago in Granada. https://www.thelocal.es/20150710/lost-100-yr-old-titanic-relic-reappears-in-spain Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:05:55 +0200 lost-100-yr-old-titanic-relic-reappears-in-spain It has museums devoted to Dali, Picasso and Miro but now Barcelona is set to honour an artist of a different kind, by opening the first museum dedicated exclusively to Woody Allen. https://www.thelocal.es/20150416/barcelona-to-get-woody-allen-museum Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:56:44 +0200 barcelona-to-get-woody-allen-museum Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy opened the city’s new star attraction over the weekend - the first Pompidou museum outside of France. https://www.thelocal.es/20150331/grand-opening-for-mlaga-pompidou Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:50:33 +0200 grand-opening-for-mlaga-pompidou A new exhibition at Madrid's world-famous Prado museum allows blind visitors to explore copies of half a dozen masterpieces with their hands. https://www.thelocal.es/20150120/do-touch-madrids-prado-opens-expo-for-blind Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:58:12 +0100 do-touch-madrids-prado-opens-expo-for-blind Madrid's Prado Museum, one of the world's best known, has misplaced nearly 900 works of arts, officials said recently, warning the institution needs to do more to watch over its inventory. https://www.thelocal.es/20140722/spains-prado-museum-loses-855 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 11:13:00 +0200 spains-prado-museum-loses-855 In the basement of Madrid's Reina Sofia museum, a giant robot known as 'Pablito' is slowly snapping hundreds of microscopic shots of a painting by Catalan surrealist artist Joan Miro to determine the condition of the work. https://www.thelocal.es/20130724/spanish-robot-brings-artworks-back-to-life Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:38:55 +0200 spanish-robot-brings-artworks-back-to-life El Greco's 400 year-old painting "Saint Dominic in Prayer" on Wednesday broke the record for a Spanish Old Master, selling at a London auction for £9,154,500 ($14,000,000). https://www.thelocal.es/20130704/spanish-old-master-fetches-record-new-price Thu, 04 Jul 2013 14:29:00 +0200 spanish-old-master-fetches-record-new-price