Spain’s Skyscraper Beach Town Is in the Running for One of Europe’s Top Green Awards
The city of more than a hundred high-rises is a finalist for the 2028 European Green Leaf award, and the reason goes back to an urban planning decision made in the 1950s.
San Borondón: The Eighth Canary Island Nobody Could Find
It appeared on maps, in a 1479 treaty, and even in a newspaper photograph. There’s just one catch: it never actually existed.
Nearly Five Minutes of Darkness: The 2027 Total Solar Eclipse Over Southern Spain
Times, duration by city, and the best places to watch: everything you need to know about the longest total solar eclipse on land this century
Scientists Open Peter the Great’s Untouched Tomb and Reveal His Face After 700 Years
Untouched by looters for seven centuries, the tomb has now revealed what the king looked like, what illnesses he suffered from, and even how he may have died.
It Rises From a Reservoir Every Summer—and May Hold the Oldest Map Ever Carved
It surfaces whenever the reservoir runs low, may carry a prehistoric map, and its fate rests on the next drought.
Only YOU Hotel Atocha: The Historic Madrid Facade That Hides a New York-Inspired Boutique Hotel
Madrid has a distinctive energy around its Atocha station: trains arriving and departing without pause, travelers pulling luggage in every direction, and just a few steps away, the vast green expanse of El Retiro inviting everyone to linger a little longer. Right at that corner, between Alfonso XII and Paseo de Santa Isabel, a building […]