Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How are declining regions to be revitalised? This question arises wherever erstwhile bastions of heavy industry ...

We are tramping up a zigzagged mountain trail through chestnut groves and over gurgling streams. Cowbells are clanging and I can smell juniper and wild thyme. Suddenly, Georgina raises a hand to halt ...

Spain's dash into tourism in the 1970s and its property boom last decade largely passed by the Basque region, a cool, damp corner of the north with a reputation for separatist violence. Instead the ...

First, a story — a Basque story: 80 years ago this April, during the Spanish civil war, Spain’s military — along with the fascist European powers assisting it — destroyed the village of Gernika, a ...

ON the afternoon of last week’s ‘glorious’ Twelfth, I found myself on a guided cycle tour of the beautiful Basque city of Donostia San Sebastián, close to the French border in northwest Spain. The ...