ASTURIAS RESEMBLES not a bit the sun-bleached Spain of popular imagination. Rivers crisscross vibrant green hillsides, ending in forbidding seaside bluffs. In the country of jamón, local dairy reigns ...
Travel to Spain’s north coast and through inland dairy pastures, and you’ll find the stew queens of Asturias, the guisanderas ...
Asturias, a small mountainous region in northern Spain, is figuring ever more prominently on the film map. Woody Allen’s Cannes entry, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” captures the region’s near-surreal ...
The narrative every summer is of tourists “overwhelming” Spain. But most of its 85 million annual visitors head to a handful of places: Majorca, Ibiza, the Canary Islands, Barcelona... It’s easy to ...
Juan Carlos Steering Spain From Dictatorship to Democracy by Paul Preston W.W. Norton, 594 pp., $35 IT IS OFTEN SAID that the Spanish do not believe in monarchy, but have faith in King Juan Carlos.
Don’t be surprised to spot a few backpackers nursing their blisters in Oviedo’s vast Plaza de la Catedral, the Cathedral Plaza. For centuries, pilgrims have been trekking through this Spanish city on ...
Like Tsar Nicholas II’s sickly little Tsarevitch, the Prince of the Asturias (Crown Prince of Spain) was afflicted from birth with haemophilia, a dread and supposedly incurable disease. When a ...
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