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 A Dutch art detective has returned two priceless stone reliefs stolen from an ancient Spanish church after tracing them to an English nobleman's garden where they were displayed as ornaments. https://www.thelocal.es/20190122/indiana-jones-of-art-finds-stolen-spanish-carvings-in-english-garden Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:13:29 +0100 indiana-jones-of-art-finds-stolen-spanish-carvings-in-english-garden Colombia on Friday opens bidding for investors willing to retrieve billions of dollars in gold and silver from an 18th century ship wreck off the country's Caribbean coast. https://www.thelocal.es/20170714/treasure-hunters-wanted-to-retrieve-sunken-treasure-from-18thc-spanish-galleon Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:15:45 +0200 treasure-hunters-wanted-to-retrieve-sunken-treasure-from-18thc-spanish-galleon A treasure of gold and silver ancient Roman coins has been found at a mining site in Huelva, southern Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20170706/milestone-treasure-of-ancient-roman-coins-found-at-mining-site Thu, 06 Jul 2017 13:37:20 +0200 milestone-treasure-of-ancient-roman-coins-found-at-mining-site A proposal by a British government agency to let the Internet come up with a name for its newest polar research ship has massively backfired. https://www.thelocal.es/20160329/spanish-admiral-vetoed-in-favour-of-boaty-macboatface Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:10:59 +0200 spanish-admiral-vetoed-in-favour-of-boaty-macboatface Colombia says it has found the shipwreck of a storied Spanish galleon, the San Jose, laden with gold, silver and precious stones, three centuries after it was sunk by the British in the Caribbean. https://www.thelocal.es/20151206/colombia-finds-spanish-treasure-galleon-ending-300-year-mystery Sun, 06 Dec 2015 16:49:34 +0100 colombia-finds-spanish-treasure-galleon-ending-300-year-mystery Treasure hunters off Florida found $4.5 million in gold coins from a Spanish ship that sunk during a hurricane in the 18th century, the salvage company said Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20150820/treasurer-hunters-find-45m-of-spanish-gold-from-sunken-galleon Thu, 20 Aug 2015 10:40:39 +0200 treasurer-hunters-find-45m-of-spanish-gold-from-sunken-galleon An extraordinary collection of shipwrecked 17th and 18th century Spanish treasure discovered off the coast of Florida has sold in New York for about $2 million (€1.83 million). https://www.thelocal.es/20150807/spanish-treasure-goes-under-the-hammer Fri, 07 Aug 2015 10:34:02 +0200 spanish-treasure-goes-under-the-hammer A Florida family of treasurehunters have made their third discovery in three years, this time finding Spanish gold worth more than $1million from a 300-year-old wreck. https://www.thelocal.es/20150728/treasurehunts-find-1m-of-spanish-gold-from-sunken-galleon Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:50:53 +0200 treasurehunts-find-1m-of-spanish-gold-from-sunken-galleon An exquisite gold chalice, an emerald-encrusted crucifix and a gold bar go on auction in New York next month, recovered from a Spanish ship that sank off the coast of Florida in 1622. https://www.thelocal.es/20150707/17th-century-spanish-treasure-on-sale-in-new-york Tue, 07 Jul 2015 10:46:55 +0200 17th-century-spanish-treasure-on-sale-in-new-york A family of treasure hunters in Florida say they found a golden pyx - a eucharist case - from a shipwrecked 16th century Spanish galleon, local media reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20140730/treasure Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:57:00 +0200 treasure Thousands of gold and silver coins pulled from a 19th-century shipwreck went on show in a Spanish museum on Thursday after Spain won them from US treasure hunters in a court battle. https://www.thelocal.es/20140530/spain-odyssey-treasure-shipwreck-court-us Fri, 30 May 2014 11:25:42 +0200 spain-odyssey-treasure-shipwreck-court-us Dozens of people risked injury in a perilous treasure hunt on Wednesday after a rumour circulated that €3,000 ($4,000) in cash was buried in the ruins of a collapsed building in Catalonia. https://www.thelocal.es/20130704/hidden-cash-rumour-sparks-rubble-ransack Thu, 04 Jul 2013 19:46:00 +0200 hidden-cash-rumour-sparks-rubble-ransack