Lorca, Spain News

Actress and singer Maria de los Angeles de las Heras Ortiz was born and raised in Spain in the bosom of a working-class family.

The Picasso aquatints on display in Madrid at an exhibition about the Generation of 1927.

Remember the era of tie-dye shirts and loon-pants and 'prog-rock' albums with sci-fi covers? That was when American composer George Crumb had his moment in the sun.

The first phase of work to exhume the site in Alfacar where the remains of the Granada poet, Federico Garcia Lorca, are believed to lie has concluded with no major discoveries.

The dates were given by the head of the ADIF infrastructure company who was on a visit to the region on Thursday The ADIF rail infrastructure company has guaranteed that the AVE high speed train will reach Murcia in 2014, but the extension on to Cartagena remains without a date.

A childless marriage blends too well with its barren setting Playwright Des Walsh has transported the tragic tale of a woman's despair over her infertility from Spain's Andalusia to a cold, isolated Newfoundland village J. Kelly Nestruck Published on Monday, Nov.

Andrea C. was eight years old when two unidentified women took her from her home in a neighbourhood on the north side of the Mexican capital, in September 2005.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:20 p.m. Vote 0 Votes As the first half of the University Theatre season meets its demise, so will a good amount of the characters in its last production of the semester: "Blood Wedding." Premiering this Friday at the Hemsley Theater - with a preview Thursday at 7:30 p.m. - the Spanish tragedy written by Federico ...

HAVING successfully forged for himself a second career as a presenter of thoughtful documentaries about serious things, it is now conceivable that many people think of Michael Portillo as merely "that nice man off the telly", rather than a widely rev iled Conservative MP.

Flamenco's a cultural expression born of poverty, sex and violence in the medieval merchant ports of southern Spain.

When she co-founded her flamenco troupe more than 25 years ago, Carlota Santana heard plenty of misconceptions.

"Leonardo, played by sophomore Danny Bride , struggles against the Bridegroom, freshman Alexander Clague while the Bride, senior Natasha Velasco , is caught in-between during a scene from the University of La Verne Theatre Arts Department production of Frederico Garcia Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding." . For more than 75 years, Federico Garcia ...

A worker walks on the roof of a tent covering the spot where Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is believed to be buried in Alfacar, Spain.

CUNDY'S HARBOR, Maine -- On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams.

A policy of forgetfulness has long hidden Spain's mass graves. Now the bodies, Lorca among them, are being disinterred Bodies displayed in a street of Barcelona during the Spanish civil war.

One of the great mysteries of modern Spanish history may soon be solved. This week, a team of archaeologists and historians from the University of Granada began excavations of a mass grave located outside the southern town of Alfcar.

Crews prepared Wednesday to exhume a grave believed to hold the remains of the acclaimed poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, in a milestone in Spain's drive to address the legacy of its 1936-39 civil war.

Crews prepared Wednesday to exhume a grave believed to hold the remains of the acclaimed poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, in a milestone in Spain's drive to address the legacy of its 1936-39 civil war.

London, 26 Oct: For more than seven decades after his killing, the location of the grave of one of Spain's greatest poets, Federico Garca Lorca, has been the country's most enduring literary riddle.

The answer to one of Spain's great historical mysteries is believed to lie in an area of olive-clad mountainside, the size of half a football pitch.