Spain

Meet some of the best foreign writers around, with a focus on Spain, history and translation.

Photograph courtesy of Tapas Fantasticas Tapas Fantasticas returns to London Friday June 25th to Sunday the 27th, this year at Potters Fields Park (Tooley Street/The Queens Walk SE1 2AA). Entry is free with lots of music, children’s activities and more. And, of course, for a …

Spanish restaurant and cultural centre, Iberica (195 Great Portland Street, W1W 5PS), has recently launched a new mini “desgustacion” menu available Monday through Saturday from noon to 3pm. Served only at the bar (and a long, lovely bar at that), the “Expressions” menu is an …

Image by Matt From London from the Londonist Flickr pool Newspapers are reeling today in the wake of the news that – ohmigod – Queen Sophia of Spain used Ryanair to travel between London and Santander. Her Spanish Maj braved the hellhole that otherwise bills …

Over the last few years it has become popular to enjoy football matches in the pub, rather than at the stadiums themselves. This is even more true of the often far-flung international summer tournaments and increasingly people want to watch each match alongside supporters who …

Whilst often lovingly, and perhaps ad nauseam, compared to Panda Bear’s Person Pitch, El Guincho’s debut Alegranza! is a more extroverted affair than its most cited point of musical reference. Joyous and celebratory from start to finish, Alegranza! mixes repetitive chanting with looped tropical rhythms …

Just as London spring begins to break beautifully over the city, the Flamenco Festival is charging into Sadlers Wells to make us all long for the heat and sultriness of a Spanish summer. The fiesta spans the spectrum of the dance form from the Farruquito …