Clockmaker Losada: the man from León who created the New Year bells in Spain.

Today, Saturday November 19, the Clock in the Puerta del Sol is 150 years old. More than a clock, a symbol of Madrid and for all of Spain and was constructed and donated to Madrid by a man from León, José Rodríguez Losada.

New documents have magnified the legend of the Spanish spy who tricked Hitler

Joan Pujol, alias ‘Garbo’ was one of the most important agents in the British MI5, and he convinced the Germans to not to disembark in Normandy but in another place. The Nazi regime never discovered his trickery and even gave the spy from Barcelona the Iron Cross, almost at the same time he was being decorated in the United Kingdom.

Tourism king, John Palmer, was being watched by British intelligence on the Canaries for sixteen years

Assassinated last year and resident in Tenerife he had one of the largest private fortunes in the United Kingdom of some 600 million €.

Two daughters of Spanish exiles are recovering the memory of Felicia Browne.

Felicia Browne was a British artist and lost her life during the Spanish Civil War. She was the first British combatant to be killed and the only British woman to take part in the fighting, and since then her story has been forgotten, until now…

The unedited diary of a British soldier who besieged Badajoz in 1811

Dating from the time of the War for Independence – the text has been missing for over 200 years

Duchess of Medina Sidonia

Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, the 21st Duchess of Medina Sidonia, died at her residence in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz province, on 7th March 2008, at the age of 71. She passed away in her 15th century Ducal Palace, the ducal residence since the 16th century, and her ancestors’ residence since the late 13th century.

Dr. Norman Bethune

A hero in China, and remembered by the Red Cross in Málaga, this Canadian Physician was born on March 3 1890

Doña Sofía, bastion of family unity.

The honoured queen, who is 77 years old today, won the affection of the Spaniards, even in the most difficult times for the throne; and she still continues to be considered the most valued member in the Zarzuela Palace.

Agustí Centelles - Catalan photographer

The war photographer is sometimes called the Spanish Robert Capa

Alejandro Finisterre - The inventor of Table Football

The inventor poet and publisher, died on February 9 2007