Sam Harrison

Tour guides and travel books have often called Buenos Aires the Paris of South America for its cafés, wide boulevards, and—most of all—the Haussmann-inspired architecture that you can see everywhere in neighborhoods like Recoleta...

A leftist response to the 1936 Games being held in Nazi Germany, the proposed competition was canceled by the Spanish Civil War...

How did one of Greece’s most recognizable dishes end up covered in bechamel sauce?

When the pandemic hit France in March, dairy farmers Laura and Lionel Vaxelaire saw orders for the Munster, tomme, and yogurt their small farm in the Vosges produces plummet...

When Corinne Fesseau first got Maurice—named after her grandfather—she assumed the tiny chick would become a chicken, like the one already in her backyard. But pretty soon Maurice grew into a beautiful Gallic rooster, and, as roosters do, he began to crow, sometimes as early as 6:30 or 7 a.m...

Brandon Waite was packing up after an evening playing board games with his friends when he noticed “1 to 4 players” written on the side of one of the boxes. Just like that, he stumbled onto the idea of playing games by himself...

Residents of Celles in France were evicted so their village could be flooded. Then, it wasn’t...

Artist Daniel Monnier spent a couple of decades away before returning to complete his vision...

Visit any Catalan festival and you'll see gegants...

When they learned their fathers led the reign of kidnapping, torture and murder that tore Argentina apart, their first reaction was disbelief. Their next was to take action.

Since the pandemic began in March, the hostels of Barcelona have sat quiet and empty.
But in the last few months, two of these have once again been filled to capacity, housing around 70 formerly homeless young men from around the world.
The project, run by the BarcelonActua (BAC) foundation, aims to help social integration and fight homelessness for young immigrants in irregular situations...

The sleepy village of Romangordo in Extremadura has been transformed thanks to a team of artists and now visitors find that nothing is quite as it seems.
Since August 2016, the small village of Romangordo in Caceres province has been slowly transforming its streets into an open air museum...

Loggerhead sea turtles hatched on Barcelona’s Mar Bella beach over the weekend from what is being hailed by conservationists as the first ever recorded nesting site on one of Barcelona’s city beaches.

On August 25, 1978, the soldiers came for Emilio de Lorenzo. It wasn’t entirely a surprise: two years earlier a military dictatorship had staged a coup and taken control of Argentina. As a social activist, and a member of the leftist groups Juventud Peronista and the Montoneros, De Lorenzo knew his politics put him at odds with the dictatorship...

Companies are selling our data and making billions doing so. So, why shouldn’t we get in on the act?