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 The world's oldest man, a Spaniard from a village near Badajoz, has died at the grand old age of 113. https://www.thelocal.es/20180130/worlds-oldest-man-dies-aged-113-in-spanish-village-where-he-lived-his-whole-life Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:50:12 +0100 worlds-oldest-man-dies-aged-113-in-spanish-village-where-he-lived-his-whole-life The number of people reaching the grand old age of one hundred has more than doubled in Spain in fifteen years. https://www.thelocal.es/20170420/six-spanish-secrets-on-how-to-reach-a-hundred Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:41:25 +0200 six-spanish-secrets-on-how-to-reach-a-hundred A Spaniard has become the oldest woman in Europe, claiming the title from Italian Emma Morano who died on Saturday at the grand old age of 117. https://www.thelocal.es/20170417/115-year-old-spaniard-claims-title-of-oldest-woman-in-europe Mon, 17 Apr 2017 15:55:26 +0200 115-year-old-spaniard-claims-title-of-oldest-woman-in-europe Ana Vela Rubio has never been ill a day in her life and only moved into a nursing home at the age of 109 where staff say that she "does not look her age". https://www.thelocal.es/20161031/happy-115th-birthday-to-spains-oldest-woman-ever Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:49:42 +0100 happy-115th-birthday-to-spains-oldest-woman-ever Antonio Docampo García, who died last week in Vigo, northwestern Spain, never drank water and put his long-life down to only imbibing his homemade red wine. https://www.thelocal.es/20160203/spaniard-lived-to-107-by-only-drinking-red-wine Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:10:55 +0100 spaniard-lived-to-107-by-only-drinking-red-wine