Madrid News
Number of visitors up in 2005.
Nearly six million people (5,914,561) visited Madrid in 2005, representing an increase of 11.2 per cent on 2004. The Spanish capital had 40 per cent more visitors than Barcelona. The majority of visit...
Copenhagen News
Day-care centre with a difference.
Day-care centres and providers of office space are set to join forces in a project to create so-called Convivendi houses incorporating a work zone for adults and a play area for children as well as a...
Oxford News
New information boards for the city.
Eleven new tourist information boards have been installed around Oxford city centre and four more are being prepared for the new Castle development. The new boards have maps and information highlighti...
Amsterdam News
For six days from 25 Jan the Dutch capital is hosting the 4th Amsterdam International Fashion Week. Most events are being held in the former industrial complex of the Westergasfabriek, but galleries a...
Berlin News
Following the cancellation of the opening gala extravaganza planned for the World Cup at the Berlin Olympic stadium, the mayor of Berlin has announced that celebrations will go ahead anyway. The venue...
London News
The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has announced that there will be neighbourhood teams of bobbies on the beat in every London ward by April 2006. Teams will initially consist of a sergeant, a poli...
Barcelona News
A report by property consultants, Jones Lang LaSalle, has revealed a 15 per cent increase in the office space rented in 2005 in Barcelona compared to the year before. Of the 410,000 sqm rented out las...
Copenhagen News
Staff and students at the University of Copenhagen will benefit from the new International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU). Among the activities to be promoted by the alliance are student exc...
Berlin News
A survey published on 10 January by the German consumer watchdog Sifting Warentest claims that the World Cup football stadiums in Berlin, Kaiserslautern, Leipzig, and Gelsenkirchen are substantially u...
Copenhagen News
Recent figures from the real estate industry show that house prices nationwide in Denmark rose by 20 per cent in 2005, one of the largest annual increases ever. Demand for houses now exceeds supply as...
Barcelona News
The .cat domain name, which will be available from the end of January, is intended for use by institutions promoting and supporting Catalan language and culture. The initial registration process will...
Vienna News
Vienna exhibition shocks Austria.
The Austrian presidency of the European Union is off to a controversial start with the 25Peaces art exhibition by 150 artists from the EU. One set of posters, by Spanish artist Carlos Aires, of models...
Barcelona News
Cava boycott pushes regional sales up.
Calls by Spaniards to boycott Catalan cava have increased sales of the famous sparkling wine in Catalonia itself, the autonomous regions retail association, Confederacin de Comer de Catalua, has said....
Paris News
Twelve specially designated areas of Paris will be decorated with artistically designed Christmas lights until mid-January in a project to highlight the diversity of the French capital, now in its sec...
Copenhagen News
Overcrowded Tivoli recommends visiting on weekdays.
Copenhagens world famous amusement park is overcrowded with too many visitors paying their traditional Christmas visits. The park administration recommends weekday visits to avoid the Saturday post-sh...
Amsterdam News
Christmas lights for De Gooyer windmill.
The De Gooyer windmill at the eastern end of Amsterdams city centre has been given the Christmas treatment with lights now adorning its sails. The idea is to attract visitors and tourists to this part...
Vienna News
Local government goes Open Source.
All civil servants working for Viennas city government have been given incentives to change from Microsoft Office 2000 to OpenOffice.org and from Microsoft Windows 2000 to GNU/Linux. Every city depart...
Barcelona News
First figures for new police force.
In its first month in operation in November, the new Catalan police force, the Mossos dEsquadra, made a total of 1,589 arrests. Robbery, from petty theft to violent hold-ups by car thieves, was the m...
Berlin News
Some 600 million of Irish capital could be invested in the German capital over the next two years, according to investment fund managers. Residential properties in Berlin in particular are considered...
Paris News
Footbridge under construction.
Pariss 37th bridge and fourth footbridge is being built between the existing bridges of Bercy and Tolbiac. When it opens at the end of June 2006 it will connect the Bibliothque Nationale de France on...
