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Architecture

Standing tall

The Spanish city’s first residential high-rise signalled that Valencia was on the up. Six decades later, it remains a status symbol.

  • Issue #165
  • 11 min read
Torre Ripalda's distinctive curved brick facade with repeating horizontal bands photographed from below against blue sky
Urbanism

Start the dance

Dance hall La Paloma thrived for more than a century until a barrage of noise complaints closed its doors. Now, soundproofed and reimagined, the party is back.

  • Issue #162
  • 8 min read
Start the dance
Politics

Raising the dead

Years of silence have almost erased Spain’s civil war and General Franco’s atrocities from the collective consciousness but now the country is ready to speak out.

  • Issue #116
  • 10 min read
A 130-metre-tall stone cross atop a rocky mountain with a white basilica building below at Valle de los Caidos.

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