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December 28th, 2011
The credit rating agency Fitch has placed on "negative watch" the credit note of five autonomous Spanish regions, four provinces and five municipalities. The move comes following the recent decision to place Spain’s 'rating' under surveillance, along with the other eurozone countries. Specifically, the five regions whose credit rating are threatened are ...
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October 18th, 2011
After the rescue efforts undertaken by the troops deployed in the Cuevas de Almanzora (Almeria), it has been confirmed that they have recovered the bodies of the three people who remained missing after a hillside collapsed on Friday morning, burying them in the mountain cave house in which they lived. The ...
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October 6th, 2011
Two Spanish cities have been recognised for their excellent cuisine in the first edition of the 'Traveller's Choice Food & Wine' organised by TripAdvisor, which rewards those cities with the best European culinary traditions, reports Cinco Dias. San Sebastian places eighth in the ranking, while Barcelona holds ninth place. Italy is ...
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September 30th, 2011
Foreign tourist expenditure in Spain is at an all-time high in 2011, with average daily spend of 99 euros and an average spend per tourist of 925 euros. Records began to be kept in 2004 and this years figures beat the previous record of 36,213.6 million euros spent by foreign tourists ...
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September 22nd, 2011
According to the figures contained in the Frontier Tourist Movement Survey (FRONTUR) drafted by the Institute for Tourism Statistics of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, the figures for inbound tourists in August exceeded the previous monthly record of 7.63 million tourists in July 2007. 655,000 more inbound tourists visited ...
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September 14th, 2011
Caffeine may become a new ally against the sun's harmful rays. U.S. scientists say that moderate consumption of coffee, and perhaps even direct application to the skin, may help reduce the risk of developing melanoma skin cancer, the most commonly diagnosed cancer. Apparently, according to research published in the National ...
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August 25th, 2011
The city of Madrid has beaten "all records" receiving 8.12 million tourists in the past year, up 6.7% from a year ago. A total of 728,722 tourists visited the city of Madrid in July, and is "the highest figure ever recorded for the month of July," according to the City ...
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August 24th, 2011
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, conscious of the need to protect fishery resources in coastal areas, has installed 25 artificial reefs off the Andalusian coast during the period between 1989 and 2011. These measures will help protect some 480 square kilometres of coastline thanks to a final investment figure of ...
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August 9th, 2011
This July has been recorded as the coldest since 2002, with an average monthly temperature of 23.3ºC, which is -0.1ºC lower than the average monthly temperature for the reference period (1971-2000), according to the Meteorological Agency (AEMET), who indicated that record rainfall was also recorded in the Costa Brava during ...
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July 6th, 2011
Tourism is one of the few economic sectors that seem willing to give good news, reported El Mundo. The hotel industry has reported a "positive outlook" for the sector this summer, with a growth of 35% over the 2010 campaign, which will mean a return to figures similar to those ...
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