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La Tomatina tomato-throwing festival is held in the town of Buñol in the province of Valencia, Spain, on the last Wednesday of August each year. The hour-long tomato throwing frenzy in the town square and surrounding streets is part of a week of festivities in Buñol, and has its origins in a spontaneous tomato fight that started during a parade Read more...
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Real Betis Balompié football club plays its home games at Estadio Benito Villamarín in the Heliópolis district of the city of Seville, Spain. Real Betis has played at the stadium since it opened in 1929, later gaining ownership in 1961 and renaming it after the club’s president, Benito Villamarín. In 1997, it was renamed Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, after Read more...
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The main river running through Valladolid, Spain, is the Pisuerga, which flows in a southwesterly direction through the city. A tributary, the Esgueva river, enters Valladolid from the east along a man-made channel and converges with the Pisuerga in the north of the city. The 283-kilometer (or 176-mile) long Pisuerga originates some 145 kilometres (or 90 miles) north of Valladolid Read more...
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The headquarters and main production studios of Spain’s state-owned public broadcaster, Radiotelevisión Española (or RTVE), are located at Prado del Rey in Pozuelo de Alarcón, to the west of Madrid. Opened in 1964, the complex houses the production facilities of RTVE subsidiaries Televisión Española (TVE) and Radio Nacional de España (RNE), along with broadcast archives and corporate offices. TVE’s news Read more...
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Circuito de Jerez hosted the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix five times from 1986 to 1990, and also staged the European Grand Prix races in 1994 and 1997. From 1991 onwards, the Spanish Grand Prix moved to the new Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, near Barcelona, where it continues to be held. The museum at the Jerez circuit features various Read more...
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