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In Spain, Sunday is still the day when families get together, take a stroll, have lunch. Fortunately, the beach is the ideal place.

It may be Christmas, but it’s just another day

Christmas may be a major annual event for some people, but for others it’s just another day of getting on with business.

Life as a medieval stone mason must have been a bit boring at times – so it’s no surprise some of them had a mucky sense of humour. A

The hand-painted sign has almost died out, killed off by plastic. But now a new breed of sign-artist is re-colouring the streets.

If it wasn’t for the rice paddies of the Albufera, the paella, that emblematic dish of Spanish cuisine, would never have been invented.

At a museum in Valencia, Spain, over one million toy soldiers stand at attention, prepared to reenact the wars that shaped the world.