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February 28, 2017
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Andalucia Day: The best places to celebrate your Andalusian pride

FEBRUARY 28 marks the Dia de Andalucia,or Andalucia Day. This annual festival celebrates Andalucia and its status as an autonomous community.
February 28, 2017
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Granada to finally get tram network 10 years after beginning construction

A city metro system is to finally crank into life. Granada’s 26-stop tram network will launch on March 31, 10 years after construction first began.
February 27, 2017
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The Beach Boys will play at the Fuengirola Music Festival

The legendary quintet will Get Around the costa this summer as they are the latest stars to be added to the 22nd Fuengirola Music Festival.
February 27, 2017
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Running in the Hills

WHEN a flood of biblical proportions destroyed his celebrated chiringuito Floria, many might have expected Peter Nette to run to the hills.
February 26, 2017
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Iconic American paintings go on display at Bilbao’s Guggenheim museum

Works by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning are among 130 exhibits by 33 artists in the US ‘Abstract-Expressionism’ retrospective, on show until June 4 at Bilbao’s Guggenheim Museum.
February 26, 2017
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Customer Service is King

Jon Clarke meets the entrepreneur behind the eight-restaurant Bar and Cafe Group
February 26, 2017
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New technique shows Nerja cave paintings could be much younger than thought

A new method of calcium dating has put the caves at 20,000 years old – relatively modern art compared to their believed age of 40,000 to 43,500 years.
February 25, 2017
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Sword of Honour

THEY have fenced with Hollywood star Viggo Mortensen. It is just one of the many accolades that sits in the trophy case of Club Internacional de Esgrima Andaluzia
February 25, 2017
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Success for annual Benahavis Art in Action exhibition

SOME 500 people attended the annual Art in Action exhibition in Benahavis.
February 25, 2017
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Two dog beaches planned for Marbella this summer

DOGS will be able to go on Marbella beaches for the first time this summer. For 7 months from March, dogs will be allowed to play on two beaches.
February 24, 2017
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Doing business since the mid-1970s

HIS back ground couldn’t be more different to the majority of expats on the Costa del Sol. For starters he speaks fluent Spanish, not to mention went to art school, before travelling off around the world to see India, Nepal and even Afghanistan.
February 24, 2017
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Drink to that

Wine from a two-hectare Manilva farmyard now proudly carries its own Denominacion de Origin mark/quality seal of approval.