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| 14:20 | Consuegra confirms its saffron festival for late October, under the windmills of La ManchaThe 64th Fiesta de la Rosa del Azafrán has its main days from 23 to 25 October, with a crafts fair and the traditional saffron-picking contests. | Fiestas and Food | Castilla-La Mancha | 2 min |
| 13:05 | Zaragoza gets ready for nine days of Fiestas del Pilar, with firefighters reading the opening speechThe city expects its usual crowds from 10 to 18 October. New stages, a fourth fireworks show and almost 100,000 people registered for the Flower Offering. | Fiestas and Food | Aragón | 2 min |
| 11:40 | Prado masterpieces light up the windows of Gijón's old tobacco factory“Ventanas al Prado” fills the Tabacalera with 29 backlit reproductions of Dürer, El Greco, Rubens, Velázquez and Goya until January 2027. | Heritage | Asturias | 2 min |
| 10:30 | Naukas brings science and art to Seville's Teatro Central for a free Saturday of talksTen 25-minute talks on how research meets music, painting and the stage. It is the science network's first event in southern Spain. | Science | Andalusia | 2 min |
| 09:15 | Sitges opens its 59th fantastic film festival with Carlota Pereda's Found AliveEleven days, 442 films and a 50th-anniversary tribute to Carrie: the seaside town south of Barcelona becomes Europe's horror capital again. | Culture | Catalonia | 2 min |
| 20:00 | À Punt marks 750 years since the death of Jaume I with a documentary on the “medieval influencer”The Valencian broadcaster looks at how the conqueror king built his own story, and why it still shapes the region. | Culture | Valencian Community | 2 min |
| 18:30 | Rosalía wins Spain's National Prize for Current Music for her album LUXThe jury praised the 2025 record, made with the London Symphony Orchestra, as “ambitious, innovative and transformative”. | Culture | Spain-wide | 2 min |
| 12:10 | El Escorial reopens its painting and architecture museums after ten yearsA €3.1 million renovation puts around 100 works by Titian, Tintoretto, Van der Weyden and Ribera back on view, 21 of them for the first time. | Heritage | Madrid | 2 min |
| 19:00 | Rioja closes the earliest grape harvest in its history, up almost half on last yearHeat brought picking forward by weeks. The regulator counted 333.8 million kilos at the official close, and late loads have since pushed the total past 358 million. | Fiestas and Food | La Rioja | 2 min |
| 17:20 | The Prado gives Christina of Sweden's sculpture collection a room of its ownThe queen's eight Muses take centre stage, with a new installation of Thalia and talks featuring astronauts Sara García and Christer Fuglesang. | Heritage | Madrid | 2 min |
| 13:45 | Alcaraz defends his Tokyo title, his first trophy since FebruaryThe Murcian beat Jiří Lehečka 7‑6(4), 6‑4 in the final of the Japan Open, back on form after a wrist injury kept him out for four and a half months. | Sport | Murcia | 2 min |
| 11:00 | Elche rocket maker PLD Space and France's CNES study a second launch pad in French GuianaThe pad would serve the Miura 5 and the larger Miura 9. The first orbital flight of Miura 5 is now expected in 2027. | Science | Valencian Community | 2 min |
| 18:00 | Sagrada Família takes more time to choose the artist for its Glory façadeMiquel Barceló, Cristina Iglesias and Javier Marín are still waiting for a decision. Meanwhile 2,345 pupils have been rewarded for projects about the new Tower of Jesus. | Heritage | Catalonia | 2 min |
| 12:30 | Spain welcomed 12.3 million foreign tourists in August, and visitors from the US jumped by a thirdINE figures show 70.4 million arrivals in the first eight months of 2026. Andalusia grew fastest among the big regions. | Travel | Spain-wide | 2 min |