The Local Spain 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 Top that! Italy snatches pizza title from Spain Italian pizza makers have brought the title for the world’s longest pizza back to its true home having produced one that’s over a kilometre long. https://www.thelocal.es/20150615/top-that-italy-snatches-pizza-title-from-spain Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:29:03 +0200 top-that-italy-snatches-pizza-title-from-spain Tourists flock to Spain in record-breaking numbers Spain has broken not one, but two tourism records, for the number of tourists in January and February, who spent a high of€6.6 billion in the country. https://www.thelocal.es/20150330/spain-breaks-yet-another-tourism-record Mon, 30 Mar 2015 14:00:19 +0200 spain-breaks-yet-another-tourism-record Spain greets record 64.9 million tourists in 2014 Spain has broken yet another tourism record, welcoming close to 65 million foreign tourists to the country in 2014, making tourism "one of the key sectors in Spain's economic recovery" according to the country's tourism minister. https://www.thelocal.es/20150122/tourism-record-visitors-to-spain-top-65-million Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:57:00 +0100 tourism-record-visitors-to-spain-top-65-million Mega tortilla smashes way into record books A young Spanish cook will feature in the Guinness World Records after preparing a five-metre (16 foot) wide tortilla which was then gobbled up by more than 10,000 people in the Basque capital of Vitoria. https://www.thelocal.es/20140804/worlds-largest-tortilla-senen-gonzalez-guinness-world-records Mon, 04 Aug 2014 13:42:00 +0200 worlds-largest-tortilla-senen-gonzalez-guinness-world-records Spain's jobless rate sees 'biggest drop in 5 years' Spain's unemployment rate fell for the first time in two years to 26.26 percent in the second quarter, official data showed on Thursday, a day after the central bank said the recession-hit country seemed close to a recovery. https://www.thelocal.es/20130725/spains-jobless-rate-sees-biggest-drop-in-five-years Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:45:00 +0200 spains-jobless-rate-sees-biggest-drop-in-five-years Spain evictions hit new record in 2012 Eviction procedures in Spanish courts for unpaid mortgages and rent hit a fresh record last year, a court oversight body said Friday, as a sharp economic downturn and record unemployment continued to take a toll. https://www.thelocal.es/20130322/spain-evictions-hits-new-record-in-2012 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:57:00 +0100 spain-evictions-hits-new-record-in-2012 Spanish jobless rate hits record high Registered unemployment in Spain topped five million people in February, employment ministry data released on Monday showed. https://www.thelocal.es/20130304/spanish-jobless-rate-hits-record-high Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:09:00 +0100 spanish-jobless-rate-hits-record-high