Anti-lockdown leader wins solid re-election in Madrid

Spanish Tourism Minister gets knife in post

In Madrid, authorities activated a red alert for the first time since the system was adopted four decades ago and called in the military to rescue people.

Spain's heaviest snowfall since 1970's blankets Madrid

Four people died in Spain as Storm Filomena caused travel chaos across the country, but those who were more fortunate in the Spanish capital Madrid put on their skis and snowshoes to enjoy the city's biggest snowfall in decades. Advice from emergency services was to stay home, but people were seen skiing and sledding down the slope across Madrid's Prado Museum on Saturday (January 9).

Snowed under! Madrid residents enjoy biggest snowfall in decades

A Madrid resident saw the lighter side of a snowstorm in the Spanish capital on Saturday (January 9) by donning a T-Rex dinosaur costume to play in the streets.

Rexy the 'dinosaur' makes snow angels in Madrid

It's snowing in Madrid after almost a decade. In Spain, it is said that a snowy year is a prosperous year. The snow has brought a much-needed cheer for the Spaniards.

Gravitas: Madrid receives snowfall after a decade

Light snow already blanketed Madrid on Thursday, a day after Spain registered the lowest temperature ever recorded on the Iberian peninsula

Freezing Madrid braces for rare and heaviest snowfall in years

The Three Wise Men arrived in Madrid on Tuesday (January 5) at a show with no audience on a year without traditional street parades on the eve of the Epiphany.

No audience to receive the Three Kings in Madrid due to COVID-19

Maria Asuncion Ojeda, 87, a resident at Madrid's Ballesol Parque Almansa nursing home was delighted on Monday (December 28) to be one of the first people in Spain to have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Sunday (December 27) when the country kicked off its coronavirus vaccination campaign.

Joy in Spanish nursing home after residents get COVID-19 jab

104-year-old Elena returned home last week after beating coronavirus and becoming a symbol of hope for Spain's second wave of coronavirus.

Spanish 104 year-old woman returns home after beating coronavirus

Women in Spain marched on Wednesday (November 25) to highlight how lockdowns due to the pandemic had left many trapped with their abusers and exposed to greater danger. The marches in Madrid and Bilbao marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Spanish women join global call for end to domestic violence

Elderly residents and health workers at nursing homes will be the first to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in Spain as outlined in the government's vaccination plan unveiled on Tuesday (November 24) which is due to kick off in January.

"Yes, I'll have it!" - Madrid elderly resident approves of Spain's vaccination plan

El Rastro Madrid's is a popular flea market in Spain, 8 months after its closed due to the pandemic, finally reopen with with tightened security and fewer stalls and other restrictive measures. Madrid has welcome reopening and effort to return to partial normalcy in Spain. our report brings you more.

Madrid welcomes reopening of El Rastro flea market

Thirty-one-year old Ines Alcolea ditched the bustling Madrid life in October for a village near the much quieter medieval town of Toledo, unable to face the prospect of more COVID-19 restrictions in her small flat in the Spanish capital.

Spain's hard-pressed millennials are giving up on the city amid COVID

Climate change activists and members of the Extinction Rebellion group took to the streets on Wednesday (November 4) to demand the protection of biodiversity.

Extinction Rebellion activists glue themselves to ground, demand biodiversity protection

COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed new wave of poverty in Spain. The demands for food banks has now grown immensely in the last few months in the country.

Rise in poverty adding pressure on food banks on Spain

Spain is the Coronavirus hotspot in Europe but amid the spiral in case count there are stories of survival & stories of inspiration. One such example is a 99-year-old COVID-19 survivor from Madrid. Watch the report to know more.

99 year old Floretina Martin beats COVID-19 in Madrid

Waving flags from cars and honking horns, thousands protested on Monday (October 12) against a partial lockdown imposed on Madrid to contain one of Europe's worst coronavirus outbreaks as they took to the streets waving national flags during National Day celebrations.

Waving Spanish flags, Madrid residents protest against lockdown

'Thanks for the chaos': Madrid returns to lockdown

The grassy slopes of the capital's Rome Park were a sea of red and yellow on Sunday morning after the flags were planted in rows, visible from the city's main circular road.

Thousands of Spain flags pay tribute to virus victims

Opera show suspended in Madrid after public protests for lack of social distancing

A wedding ring worn by her father 84 years ago when he was shot dead by General Francisco Franco's fascist forces finally gave certainty to Rosa Maria Insua, who received it, tears in her eyes, last week at the site of a mass grave found near Madrid.

Ring found in mass grave brings closure to Spanish civil war victim's family

Health workers in the Spanish capital protested on Tuesday (September 15) against the regional health authority's lack of support and demanding better working conditions.

Health workers protest in Madrid against lack of support, demand better conditions

Fineprint: The missing victims of Spanish civil war

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