Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Hooded Penitents Celebrate Holy Week
While Holy Week is celebrated around the globe by Christians, Spain is renowned for a particularly colorful tradition: the procession of the nazareno penitents...
LIFE With Bardot: Rare Photos of the Original French ‘Sex Kitten’
Decades after her acting and singing careers came to an end, Brigitte Bardot is today primarily known for her animal-rights activism and for her frequent scrapes...
LIFE at the Vatican: Digging Through History Beneath St. Peter’s
The walled, pint-sized city-state known as the Vatican physically takes up around 100 acres in the center of Rome, but occupies a vast, measureless space in the...
Spain's Madcap Tomato Festival, La Tomatina
The annual food fight in Bunol, Spain draws thousands of eager vegetable-throwers
The New Castles of Spain: Victims of the Euro Crisis
How a debt-fueled building boom has littered the country with expensive white elephants
Immigration in Europe
Greece, Italy and Spain are just beginning to grapple with large numbers of migrants. So far, they're failing.
The Human Pyramids of Tarragona
A biannual competition in Spain challenges participants to build the highest possible human tower
The Prestige Oil Spill
An environmental catastrophe occurs as a tanker sinks off the coast of Spain
Underwater Volcano Erupts Near Spain's Canary Islands
Seismic activity only a mile off the coastline turns the water surrounding El Hierro Island bright green
Spain Terror Carnage
A rush hour explosion in Madrid kills 186 and wounds over 500
The Perfect Steak
A search for the ultimate steak takes a group of food aficionados deep into the hills of northern Spain. Photographs for TIME by Jose Luis Lopez de Zubiria.
The A List
From leather jackets in Spain to denim in Moscow — here's what's selling in the global men's market
The World's Largest Wooden Urban Sculpture
Built within the heart of Seville, Spain, the Metropol Parasol has become the city's most fascinating must-see destination
The World's Wackiest Holidays
From the largest annual tomato fight in Spain, to Scotland's "Up Helly-Aa" fire festival, a look at those special days when people around the world go slightly...
Summer of Sorrow
Bombings and assassinations shake SpainA series of bombings and assassinations have turned Spain's summer into a season of mourning. The attacks, all attributed...
Semana Santa
The week from Palm Sunday to Easter, Semana Santa — Holy Week — is Catholicism's most sacred period. In Spain and Mexico, it's an affair both joyous and sad,...
Ashes to Ashes
Attacks by the Basque separatist group ETA sow fear and anger in Spain as the death toll climbs
Swine Flu Hits Mexico
The swine flu outbreak in Mexico has killed at least 150 people and spread to nations as far away as New Zealand and Spain.
