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El Rompido - Fishing Village Development

El Rompido - Fishing Village Gains International Acclaim in Spanish Tourist Board Ad Campaign The Spanish Tourist board is currently using the idyllic picture-postcard beach of El Rompido in Huelva in an international print advertising campaign.  What better endorsement could local estate agents wish for? Andrew Benitz, Director of Titan Properties whose head office is in [...]

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Lanzarote´s Main Resort Revitalised

 Lanzarote´s grand old dame of tourism – Puerto del Carmen – is about to get a facelift.  As local authorities react to increased competition from younger and fresher rivals for the custom of overseas visitors.  Once a small fishing village called La Tiñosa, the resort has exploded since package tourism first took off on Lanzarote back in the [...]

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Winter Sun In Lanzarote

As the tourist season starts to wind down in mainland Spain certain Spanish provinces are just gearing up for their busiest time of year.  As the Canary Islands – located just off the coast of West Africa are the closest winter sun destination to the UK and Ireland.    Lanzarote is the most easterly island in [...]

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Is the Spanish Property Market Still Strong?

The BuyAssociation have just published their thoughts on the state of the Spanish Property Market.  Here is their latest take on the current situation and prospects. At times it feels as though the overseas property market in Spain has been doomed for years. On top of this, a recent downturn in the share price of large [...]

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Death Of The Spanish Holiday Premature

Despite the credit crunch and the weakening pound British tourists clearly remain reluctant to surrender their holidays in Spain.  As new research just released by AENA, the Spanish airport authority, reveals that visitor numbers to Lanzarote from the UK have jumped by 15.6% during the first half of 2008.   The AENA figures will confound many industry [...]

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Property in Spain

It’s a dream for everybody to buy a nice house in a beautiful country, so that it can be used as a get away place, where you can hibernate when you feel like. Spain is a great place to settle down as it is one of the most beautiful countries of the world. But the [...]

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Lanzarote – Discover the Island of Fire

Whilst Lanzarote is a Spanish island, it in fact lies off the coast of Saharan Africa.  And like the rest of the Canaries has a cultural identity that is more Latin American than Iberian.  A legacy of the islands historic strategic position as a trading post in-between the Old World and the New.   This favorable geographic [...]

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Buying Property in Spain

It is in fact a good idea to buy property in Spain, especially because of the fact that Spain is one such EU member that has not been greatly affected by the ups and downs that the UK property market has been dealing with in the recent times. Besides, the property market in Spain is [...]

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