Feed MRSS-S leon_a, english.elpais.com en-us https://english.elpais.com Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:58:13 GMT https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-10/the-spurned-son-from-a-secret-romance-fights-for-a-162-million-inheritance.html Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:58:13 GMT https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-10/the-spurned-son-from-a-secret-romance-fights-for-a-162-million-inheritance.html Mikel Ormazabal Garmendia A businessman from northern Spain, paternity test in hand, says he is the rightful heir to a large legacy from his biological father, who maneuvered him out of his will before dying A businessman from northern Spain, paternity test in hand, says he is the rightful heir to a large legacy from his biological father, who maneuvered him out of his will before dying Gipuzkoa Pamplona León Navarra Carlos Luján / Europa Press (Europa Press) Million inheritance The Plaza de Castilla Courts in Madrid, where the case is being handled. The Plaza de Castilla Courts in Madrid, where the case is being handled. <p>The courts have blocked an inheritance worth an estimated €14 million ($16.2 million) from an estate belonging to A. F. D., a Spanish entrepreneur who died in 2021. A luxurious 400-square-meter mansion in Madrid, funds in various bank accounts, shares in companies and <a href="https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2021-06-25/bison-in-spain-the-risks-of-introducing-an-exotic-species.html" target="_self" rel="" title="https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2021-06-25/bison-in-spain-the-risks-of-introducing-an-exotic-species.html">a hunting estate</a> in the northern province of León are just some the assets being wrangled over. </p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-10/the-spurned-son-from-a-secret-romance-fights-for-a-162-million-inheritance.html" target="_blank">Seguir leyendo</a></p> https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-29/how-not-to-die-in-space-a-day-in-astronaut-sara-garcias-training.html Sun, 29 Dec 2024 04:30:00 GMT https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-29/how-not-to-die-in-space-a-day-in-astronaut-sara-garcias-training.html Manuel Ansede ,Álvaro González Roldán The Spanish scientist has begun her relentless training to become an extraterrestrial being. EL PAÍS accompanies her for a day in her new life The Spanish scientist has begun her relentless training to become an extraterrestrial being. EL PAÍS accompanies her for a day in her new life ESA NASA León EPV A day in the training of Sara García Sara García with her new suit at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne. Sara García with her new suit at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne. <p>The job offer was brutal. It required being locked up for months in a claustrophobic enclosure with no possibility of escape, with only purified urine from other people to drink and with the obligation to act as a human guinea pig in invasive experiments. The risk of death was high. One in 35 workers died beforehand in the attempt. Despite all this, almost 23,000 applicants with astonishing CVs applied, of whom only 17 passed the inflexible tests to become an astronaut for the European Space Agency (ESA) and join “the greatest adventure in humanity”: a trip to the International Space Station with a view to future manned missions to the Moon. The Spaniard <a href="https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-10-08/reserve-astronaut-and-oncologist-sara-garcia-we-still-outperform-machines.html">Sara García</a>, 35, is one of the chosen few. On October 28, she began her training with one basic objective: to learn how not to die.</p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-29/how-not-to-die-in-space-a-day-in-astronaut-sara-garcias-training.html" target="_blank">Seguir leyendo</a></p><img src="https://images.english.elpais.com/resizer/v2/QBYQPNY2SFGFNMEA7WUO7TPZDU.jpg?auth=85daa6205310b358a00ae23fde9326c0b40ab85ce7c8e721ccabc72380afb182" width="3909" height="2611" alt="Sara García, standing next to replicas of modules of the International Space Station and the European Astronaut Center in Cologne. "></img><img src="https://images.english.elpais.com/resizer/v2/LI7QYNBGIVGLPN7XET563SGKRU.jpg?auth=d2e3254ce542ba83705620293b1cec913af599c355e6716a86a2ec289f7e544c" width="3840" height="2160" alt="Spanish astronaut Sara García's new flight suit."></img><img src="https://images.english.elpais.com/resizer/v2/5GO4W257FRAUTOOWFFD3CLE7HA.jpg?auth=6e5f02a753ef336a7c4f8ca353ff0a64dc7df603b21bc0b01e87c59efdb65e73" width="4162" height="2780" alt="Astronaut Sara García under a model of the International Space Station at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany."></img> https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-23/queen-berengarias-sad-message-hidden-in-the-ceiling-of-a-spanish-convent.html Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:51:25 GMT https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-23/queen-berengarias-sad-message-hidden-in-the-ceiling-of-a-spanish-convent.html Vicente Olaya More than 150 heraldic coats of arms tell the unhappy story of the woman who Pope Innocent III forced to separate from King Alfonso IX of León when they already had five children together More than 150 heraldic coats of arms tell the unhappy story of the woman who Pope Innocent III forced to separate from King Alfonso IX of León when they already had five children together Spain Salamanca León Miguel Ángel Martín Mas (EL PAÍS) Escudos que relatan, en el convento de Santa Clara, la proclamación de Fernando III de Castilla como rey de León en 1230. Coats of arms that tell the story of the proclamation of Ferdinand III of Castile as King of León in 1230. Coats of arms that tell the story of the proclamation of Ferdinand III of Castile as King of León in 1230. <img src="https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/ZS3IMZ4D2NEBVCDNQKLHZVVPM4.jpg" width="4608" height="2143" alt="Coats of arms that tell the story of the proclamation of Ferdinand III of Castile as King of León in 1230."></img><p>Queen Berengaria I of Castile (1180-1246) was also queen consort of the Kingdom of León by her marriage to Alfonso IX, but Pope Innocent III annulled the marriage seven years after the union and after five children had already been born. The reason given was that the spouses were first cousins once removed. Berengaria (known as Berenguela in Spanish) never got over the emotional and political blow that forced her to return to Castile and take refuge under the protection of her royal parents: <a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2021-06-24/the-medieval-spanish-monastery-snapped-up-by-william-randolph-hearst.html">Alfonso VIII</a>, victor of the Battle of Navas de Tolosa, and<a href="https://english.elpais.com/arts/2020-07-31/the-empowered-women-of-the-spanish-middle-ages.html"> Eleanor Plantagenet</a>, daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, muse of the troubadours. A life, therefore, marked by the political and personal interests of others. For example, the Duke of Rothenburg, fifth son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, became engaged to her when she was only nine years old, but finally broke off the agreement when he learned that Berengaria had a new brother (Henry I), which meant that the German aristocrat lost his possible dynastic rights through marriage.</p><p><a href="https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-06-23/queen-berengarias-sad-message-hidden-in-the-ceiling-of-a-spanish-convent.html" target="_blank">Seguir leyendo</a></p><img src="https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/PKI3VUU7IRBE3NGOAVHWJFE6TQ.jpg" width="4608" height="3456" alt="The castle of Alfonso VIII and the red-billed chough, emblem of the patron saint of the Angevin dynasty."></img><img src="https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/CFFVGIX4QZHRJNQU525JFB7N4Q.jpg" width="4608" height="3456" alt="Emblem depicting the death of Queen Beatrix of Swabia, first wife of Ferdinand III."></img>