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The year in photos: Spain 2015
Published: 30 Dec 2015 16:02 GMT+01:00
Updated: 31 Dec 2015 08:48 GMT+01:00
Updated: 31 Dec 2015 08:48 GMT+01:00
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This year The Local Spain started its own Instagram account and we have had some amazing photo submissions from our readers from all around Spain using the hashtag #thelocalspain
Check out some of our favourites by clicking on the link to the gallery below.
Thank you to all our readers who have contributed photographs this year, we have loved getting a glimpse of Spain through your eyes and can't wait to see what you snap in 2016.
If you want to be our photo of the day, show us your Spain by tagging #thelocalspain on Instagram or emailing us your photographs to news.spain@thelocal.com
And don't forget to like The Local Spain on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to see every photo of the day - who knows, one of them could be yours!
Photo: Eloy Beltené/Instagram
Today's headlines
Year in Review
Photos: AFP
Spain's biggest news stories of 2015
From a clamour for Catalan independence and the hottest summer ever to the death of the two-party system and siestas becoming compulsory, it has been a busy year for Spain...
Jordi Pujol and his wife Mercedes Ferrusola. Photo: AFP
Former Catalan chief to go to court over alleged money laundering
A judge has summoned former Catalan regional premier Jordi Pujol for questioning as a suspect in alleged money laundering and tax fraud relating to a personal fortune his family hid in Andorra.
Year in review
Photos:
The year in photos: Spain 2015
The Local's readers have taken some amazing photographs from around Spain this year. Here are some of our favourites.
New Year's Eve
Fireworks in Pamplona. Photo: Rafa Rivas/AFP
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Photo: AFP
Spaniard used Facebook to call on jihadists to kill traffic wardens
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Archive photo: Shutterstock
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Photo: AFP
Madrid closes iconic Sol metro station to beef up New Year security
The metro station at Puerta del Sol, where thousands of people gather every year to welcome in the New Year, will be closed on Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy during his end of year press briefing. Photo: AFP
Spanish PM will battle to form government despite lack of support
Spain's beleaguered Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Tuesday he would battle on to try and form a government despite categoric refusals by other key parties to back him after inconclusive elections.
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Photo: Oscar Montero
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Gallery
Photo: Jaime Reina / AFP
Spanish town celebrates crazy festival with flour and egg battle
The eastern Spanish town of Ibi held its annual Enfarinats festival, a colourful and messy fiesta which sees revellers launch eggs, flour and firecrackers at each other in a mock coup d’etat.
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