These days nobody would dream of keeping a wild animal as a pet, but there was a time, not so long ago, when a gentleman ...

From the coastline to the countryside, these are the cities and towns worth reserving for your golden years. Here, the best ...

In the Middle Ages, the Via Francigena was Europe’s overland spine, a pilgrimage often likened to Spain’s better-known ... The trip starts from $1770 and includes daily luggage transfers ...

When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

During the Revolutionary period, American money often contained messages about unity. The image of thirteen interlocking rings on Continental money was intended to illustrate the solidarity of the ...

In California, between 1770 and the early 1840s ... When Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, secularization swept across the missionary communities. The Mexican authorities cared little ...

Today it has recovered something of its former role, with passionate summer crowds still turning out for some blood-letting – Nîmes has the most active bullfighting scene outside Spain ... who stayed ...

The northern lights have been interpreted in many ways down the centuries - from portents of political upheaval to signs of ...

Thousands of people protested in holiday resorts in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday against over tourism which they say prices local people out of the housing market. Under the slogan Canary ...

As many European Union countries call for the bloc to clamp down on migration amid a surge in support for right-wing political parties, Spain is bucking the trend and insists Europe’s aging ...

Spain's transport minister, Oscar Puente, suspended all commuter trains in northeast Catalonia. "Do not travel unless strictly necessary," the region's population of eight million people were told ...