• ‘Spain is ugly’: El País editor takes on his country’s ‘cultural catastrophe’

    ‘Spain is ugly’: El País editor takes on his country’s ‘cultural catastrophe’
    Andrés Rubio charts the growth of towering megahotels and half-built structures in a provocative new bookFor nearly two decades Andrés Rubio poured over photos of Spain’s magnificent cathedrals, delicate Moorish architecture and quaint cobblestone streets. But as the editor of newspaper El País’ travel supplement, what often caught his eye was what was hovering in the background: glimpses of towering megahotels, skeletal remains of half-built buildings or jarring

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