We were friends of Beto Brandoni during the last stage of his life. For us he was a hero as an artist: he had starred in what we consider to…
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Lucy Worsley, historian: “The United Kingdom has always done better with queens than with kings” | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomLucy Worsley (Reading, 52 years old) has been sneaking onto the televisions of British homes for a couple of decades dressed as Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I or an 18th century…
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Morante de la Puebla, very serious after being gored by the fourth bull of the bullfight in La Maestranza | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomAll the somersaults are unpleasant, but Morante’s today in La Maestranza, shocking, has been especially cruel and not only because of the injury inflicted, but because it has broken the…
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Gonzalo Celorio, Cervantes Prize winner: “The Spanish language was not the language of the conquest, but rather the language of independence” | Culture
by News Roomby News Room“It is since Cervantes and thanks to him that genres have mixed to the point of promiscuity. They have stopped being watertight compartments and I love that,” said Gonzalo Celorio,…
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To the rescue of the memory and voice of citizen history | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomA smiling sun that says: “Nuclear? No, thanks”; the white handkerchiefs of the mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and the green ones, a symbol of the fight…
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Bulls in Las Ventas: Provision without prize for bullfighters | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomThe poor condition of Antonio Palla’s bulls, which did not fall but lacked class except for the fourth, ruined the evident willingness to triumph of El Mella, Cid de María…
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Fifty photos to tell half a century of EL PAÍS history | 50th Anniversary
by News Roomby News RoomThe players of the Spanish soccer team lifting the World Cup in South Africa, on July 11, 2010; Berliners pounding the Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989; a plane with passengers…
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April Fair: Morante will face his fifth bullfight in Seville at the San Miguel Fair after his frustrated Puerta del Príncipe on Thursday | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomMorante de la Puebla will make his fifth Paseíllo in Seville this year, on September 27 at the San Miguel Fair. This was announced by the Lances de Futuro company,…
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From nail to nail: nothing is left to chance when moving a masterpiece | Culture
by News Roomby News RoomOf all the chemical combinations that occur in a person when they stand in front of a work of art, there is one that, perhaps, on rare occasions, that viewer…
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At last. It was time. Finally, this afternoon there were protests in La Maestranza. It happened at the exit of Victorino Martín’s fifth bull, which took several minutes to enter…