#Espanha

A crowd fills the Puerta del Sol in Madrid around the housing protest camp set up in September 2026, in a photograph taken on 12 October.

Spain halts in a general strike over housing and wages, the first backed by both big unions since 2012, as 234 flights are cancelled

The fishing harbour of La Restinga, at the southern tip of El Hierro, pictured in 2005; it is where most of the people rescued on the Atlantic route come ashore.

El Hierro declares a migration emergency after more than 3,300 people arrive in a week

Óscar Puente on the steps of the Council of Ministers building in Madrid in November 2023, when he took over the transport ministry.

Spain's transport minister resigns after 115 deaths in two rail crashes in ten months

An Iryo train passes at speed on the Madrid–Seville high-speed line, near the town of Mora in Toledo province, in 2023.

Renfe AVE slams into stopped Iryo train on Madrid–Seville line, killing at least 64 in Toledo province

Plaça de Catalunya, in Barcelona, at night, in a file photograph from February 2024.

Barcelona reports 128 arrests and 14 injured officers after a night of looting in the city centre

RCD Espanyol's stadium in Cornellà de Llobregat, where Spain and Egypt drew in March 2026, pictured in 2023.

Discrimination in football

FIFA fines Spain's federation US$20,000 over Islamophobic chants and orders 15% of the stadium closed

The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, about 45 kilometres north-west of Madrid, in 2018.

El Escorial reopens its painting and architecture museums after ten years, free until December

Spain's Housing and Urban Agenda Minister, Isabel Rodríguez, on the steps of the Council of Ministers building in Madrid in November 2023.

Spain extends its eviction shield to 2030 and bars property purchases by vulture funds

British director Mike Leigh at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024.

Mike Leigh wins the Golden Shell in San Sebastián with what he says is his final film

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez with security force representatives at the Tarajal border crossing in Ceuta on 31 July 2026, the day after the mass entry of migrants from Morocco.

Spain clears 1,700 migrants off Ceuta's beaches in an operation marked by warning shots