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ALBERTO GÓMEZ
The Casa de María Barrabino is emblematic of the project to regenerate the centre of Torremolinos. It has been empty for two decades and is sadly very deteriorated, but was once an elegant example of the tastes of the nineteenth century bourgeoisie
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LUCÍA PALACIOS
"If we show emotion, they say we're being dramatic. If we want to play against men, we're nuts. And if we dream of equal opportunities, we are delusional...." That was the voice of American tennis star Serena Williams at the Oscar awards ceremony,
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Debbie Bartlett
An 18th-century gold watch signed by Gibraltarian goldsmith Henry Cowper has been acquired at auction by the Gibraltar National Museum, beating numerous other bidders and finally buying the beautiful piece for £5,334. Henry Cowper is probably ... this watch is embossed with classical figures surrounded by the typical C-scrolls of the 18th century, and the elegant white enamelled dial has Arabic and Roman numerals. The watch shows signs of having been well-worn and loved over the years. The
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regina sotorrío
...someone characterised by determination or willfulness. In the mid-19th century, art tended towards the first definition, portraying the cursed beauty of the woman who leads to the destruction of the man. But by the 20th century there had been a ... the 20th century, Delhy Tejero painted his friend in trousers, looking powerful, decided and brave. Perversity is a collection of almost 70 visions of woman through paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by artists such as Klimt, Modigliani, Van ... museum, Lourdes Moreno, explained, these are a faithful reflection of society of the time. The way art portrayed women in the 19th century "showed a powerful and negative human sentiment: fear". The alarm caused in society by the incorporation of women
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Charo MÁRQUEZ
Refurbishment work to a building on Calle Modéjar just outside the centre of Estepona has unveiled a highly valuable 18th-century mural on the façade of a building. The artwork, created in Baroque style, has aroused the interest of many experts,
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Mark Nayler
...changed much since the early twentieth century. Getting off the bus in Brenan's former pueblo (a twice-daily service runs from Granada and takes you through some of the Sierra's most humbling landscapes), a few old houses on one side of the narrow road ... (all of which have nevertheless retained their beauty and charm). But Yegen, and the eastern Alpujarra as a whole, is still of a "different character" from the west, as Brenan observed almost a century ago. Despite the arrival of TVs, gas cookers,
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JESÚS HINOJOSA
...the main shopping street that his family paid for in the nineteenth century. It used to face west instead of north and the change has met with the disapproval of a descendent of the sculptor. "The marquess will always have his face in the shade now,"
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FERNANDO TORRES / NEIL HESKETH
Malaga Airport just before 10.30am last Sunday and those on board helped write a little more of the history of the Costa del Sol. ÑITO SALAS A CENTURY FLIES BY 9 March 1919. At 10.30am Pierre Latècoére and Henri Lemaitre spot from their biplane an ... Vélez-Málaga base for Toulouse several days earlier to get ready and flew back along the same route as a century before into Malaga. They were accompanied in the sky by two small planes from the Latècoére Foundation, which maintains the legacy of the French air
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ANTONIO J GUERRERO
San Juan de Dios churches, but it is the sixteenth-century Renaissance church which had to undergo the biggest transformation. Murals of Templars, angels and dragons have been installed while the sacristy has been turned into an improvised library with
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Charles V European Award, given for contributions to European cultural integration and unification. Charles V was the Spanish monarch who also ruled over a big part of Europe in the sixteenth century. In his speech, the King called for "a more united,