The latest edition of the gourmet bible, Michelin Guide to Spain and Portugal 2016, was published on 25 November. Huelva gets its first Michelin Star! The new Michelin guide for Spain and Portugal, 2016 edition, has been published, with four new stars for Andalucia: three in Malaga province,…

  Emerald City, the new NBC fantasy drama series, will be filmed in various location around Andalucia.   The series is based around The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L Frank Baum.   Seville's Alcazar will be one of the filming locations. The Alcazar goes to Oz For the Alcazar of Seville, the…

Seville International Film Festival     The Lobster is a truly international film, with Greek director and writers, and Irish, English, French and American actors.   Seville International Film Festival: 6-14 November This year's XIIth Seville International Film Festival, which aims to promote…

  In total 20 galleries from around Andalucia and beyond showed their works at Artsevilla. 1st International Contemporary Art Fair in Seville A week ago Seville held its first-ever contemporary art fair, Artsevilla, on 15-18 October. Previously, three BIACS festivals (Bienale Internacional de…

  Order a dish, and help fight hunger.   Three great reasons to eat tapas in Seville this autumn   Seville is always a great city to go out and eat - this is where the tapa was invented, after all - and this autumn, a number of events and festivals are offering even more opportunities to…

Lost in Translation As English speakers, I often feel we have an unfair advantage over our hispanophone friends and neighbours here in Spain. They speak the language of their birth, which does them well at home, and all over Central and South America. But for us, our idiom is the one most widely…

Alcazaba de Almeria After the excitement of Game of Thrones Season 5 being filmed in the Alcazar palace in Seville last October, and subsequently in Osuna's bullring,  the limelight has transferred to Almeria province this year, where filming of Season 6 will take place next…

Is the future of bullfighting, and other taurine events, in doubt? If you've been following the Spanish news over the summer - wherever you may have spent the last couple of months - or indeed if you've been reading the international press, you may have noticed a glut of stories on injuries and…

Bobadilla/Antequera-Granada high-speed rail link gets 62m euro Today, a new investment was announced for the Antequera-Granada high-speed rail link, with AVE trains due to start running in 2018. Andalucia's budget for 2016 includes 62 million euros to  finish this AVE route linking Antequera (…

The heat is on - 10 top tips to cope in a southern Spanish summer Whether you have made Andalucia your permanent home, you're staying for a long sojourn over the summer months, or you're just here on holiday (or planning to be shortly), you will be aware of the extreme heat in July and August,…