After a long legal battle, a federal court in California has ruled that a Spanish museum can keep an impressionist painting, rejecting a claim by relatives of a German Jew who was forced to sell the painting before fleeing the Nazis.
MADRID — The Prado was not designed to be one of the world’s great art galleries. But as it celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, Spain’s national museum can boast of welcoming almost 3 million visitors a year to what has become one of Europe’s finest painting collections.
Swiss voters agreed Sunday to tighten the country’s gun laws to reach parity with European Union anti-terrorism legislation that came into force following attacks in Paris and elsewhere.
MADRID — Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, a former leader of Spain’s Socialist Party who is credited with helping end Basque separatist violence, died Friday in Madrid. He was 67.