This year the Medieval Market being held in the picturesque old town centre of La Vila Joyosa (or Villajoyosa), will have real craft people on the stalls. Men and women who really make what they sell, which makes a change from all those fancy dress markets with barrow boys in medieval costume selling stuff that […]
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Medieval Market – May in Villajoyosa
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Monarch Airlines Adds More Routes to Winter Schedule
Monarch Airlines, the leading scheduled carrier to leisure destinations, has increased the number of routes for its winter for 2015/16 schedule. The new additional routes to the winter 15/16 programme include some of the airline’s most popular winter sun destinations, including Alicante, Gran Canaria, Majorca, Menorca and Gibraltar. The new additional routes to the winter […]
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Campo Viejo Streets of Spain
Campo Viejo’s Streets of Spain returns to London’s Southbank. This year promises to be bigger and better than ever with audio contributions from world-renowned synaesthete Nick Ryan. Immerse yourself in an audio experience that translates the sensations of the taste of the famous Campo Viejo wine into sound – you won’t believe your ears. Southbank […]
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Why do second home owners love Spain quite so much?
Leading Spanish homebuilder Taylor Wimpey España has enjoyed a bumper start to 2015. Visitors to the company website are up by 16% and sales have increased during Q1 in all three locations in which Taylor Wimpey España operates: Mallorca, the Costa Blanca and the Costa del Sol. Buyers from around the world have been charmed […]
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Save on the flight to spend more on your hols – Spain’s visitors get savvy
Low cost airlines are enjoying a notable boom in passenger numbers on their routes to Spain, according to the latest figures from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. Some 3.3 million travellers used low cost airlines to get in and out of Spain during the first two months of 2015, up 14.4% on […]
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€58,000 for Torrevieja’s cultural programme
TORREVIEJA has released the Spring cultural programme showing what is on offer throughout April, May and June. Councillor for Culture, Luis Maria Pizana, was accompanied by the coordinator of Culture, Manuel Esteban Moreno, as they presented the programme which has a total of 224 acts and an overall budget of €58,000. Among the scheduled activities […]
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Costa Blanca sees best Easter in decades
THE best Easter of the decade. That’s how Costa Blanca hoteliers and restaurateurs are describing the Easter weekend on the coast. Hotel occupancy in towns like Benidorm reached nearly 100 per cent and restaurants said they had had a “very positive” result from the first major holiday period of the year. President of the Hosbec […]
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Exchange rates and golden visa encouraging overseas buyers in Spain
Currency exchange rates are encouraging even more foreign buyers back to the Spanish property market and this is reflected in increased sales, especially in popular areas. New legislation to relax the requirements for Spain’s golden visa which allows non-European Union buyers to gain citizenship if they invest in the real estate market is also set […]
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Low-cost airline traffic from UK to Spain up by 9.2% in 2015
2014 saw an almost constant increase in the number of foreigners visiting Spain, and the first two months of 2015 seem to boast promising figures for Spanish tourism. January and February saw a marked increase of 9.2 per cent more Britons travelling to Spain on low-cost airlines. In recent years the rise of the low […]
