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Interesting article in The Guardian on the roots of flamenco.

Forget the Hollywood image – flamenco has deep-rooted social and political resonances that cross culture and genre Read

The traditional beach bars (chiringuitos) are facing  closure this summer if the plans of the environment ministry go ahead. "We have been here on the sand ever since tourism reached Malaga in the 1950s," Servando Cidoncha, who runs a bar on the Costa del Sol beach at Guadalmar, told the ABC newspaper. "If they take us inland we will stop being a chiringuito and become just another restaurant. The English and Germans come to us attracted by a sense of tradition. Moving us would destroy that." Read in The Guardian

One of Spain's most enduring historical mysteries is close to being solved as experts decipher and translate more than 10,000 Arabic inscriptions adorning the walls of the Alhambra palace in Granada. Read in the Guardian