Madrid, Spain Travel News

Madrid, Dec 23 : Thousands of travellers, many of them Latin American immigrants trying to head home for Christmas, remained stranded here after Spanish airline Air Comet shutdown its operations.

Madrid, Dec 14 Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet called in Madrid to improve cooperation and trade with Spain.

The Asheville Symphony Guild is sponsoring a getaway to New Orleans and a visit to the classical cities of Spain in the spring.

Sunday afternoon, activists from the Animal Equality Organization in Spain put on a disturbing demonstration in Madrid.

Feeling adventurous? If you find yourself in the small village of Jukkasja rvi in Northern Sweden between the months of December and April treat yourself to an unusual night or two at the Ice Hotel .

Contributing to the airport passenger fall: On the Madrid-Barcelona route, high speed rail now has more passengers than air services.

Is it possible for someone to visit a few hundred boutiques in three days and not be bored stiff at the end of it? In Madrid lies the surprising answer.

Madrid, the capital and largest city in Spain, has a gorgeous terrain which can be quite inviting for any traveler visiting Europe.

If you're heading to Sonar next week, you may want to take a detour to the Spanish island of Palma de Mallorca to enjoy PuroBeach , the latest add-on to Swede entreprenuer Mats WalhstrA m's hippie-lux boutique hotel Puro that he opened last year.

If you want it, and it's not a big ticket item, chances are you can find at the Rastro.

TripOutGayTravel.com , MTV's first travel website, has announced the winners of the first TripOut Gay Travel Awards.

Flamenco dance..not to be missed. photo by Rich Carlson/foto-op This latest announcement is great news for travelers on the east coast who have Spain and Madrid on their radar screen for travel next year.

Madrid has something for everyone: a student of history, an art lover, an outdoor enthusiast, or a simple tourist.

In Spain, you can easily go from Sober evening to an alcohol-soaked night of bad dancing in Madrid.

The destination board at Gare d'Austerlitz flickers and updates: a great tumble of temptation spelled out across the station wall.

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism.

Spain's lively capital can be a very affordable place for a city break. Even with the awful pound-to-euro exchange rate, you can stay in the centre in a good-quality hotel for well under 100 a night, and a room in a simple but decent hostal a guesthouse occupying a floor of an old building can cost half that.

To paraphrase 1980s Spanish pop group Los Refrescos, you can have a thousand cinemas, theatres and museums but when August comes there is still no damn beach.

A model at the Oscar Niemeyer retrospective at the Fundacion Telefonica in Madrid.

The paths through the City of Sacred Pilgrimage, otherwise known as Santiago de Compostela, have been smoothed over by centuries of foot travel.