Prado Museum decides that El Coloso is not by Goya

It's now thought the work is by one of Francisco de Goya's students

The Prado Museum has finally concluded that the dramatic painting ‘The Giant – El Coloso’ hanging on its walls is not the work of Francisco de Goya as had previously been thought.

 The museum has now published the results of its research into the painting, and report on the poor technique in the light and colour, and also how the painting has been framed makes it different from most Goyas.

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The Spanish Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, was the guest on the TVE television programme, ‘Tengo una pregunta para usted’ – I have a question for you last night.
100 members of the public, selected to be a cross section of society, asked the Prime Minister a series of questions, most of them about the economic crisis.

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FITUR 2009: all the world's tourism in Madrid

The Spanish capital will become the world tourism capital from 28 January-1 February. This is when Madrid hosts the 29th edition of FITUR, one of the most important shows on the international calendar. Would you like to discover the tourism sector's most novel trips, destinations and ideas? Come to the IFEMA Exhibition Centre and you can take a trip around the world without ever leaving Madrid.

An imperative appointment for the international tourism sector, preserves its vigor in 2009 featuring 200,000 square metres of exhibitions and its well-known convening power. The figures speak for themselves: last year's edition was attended by 11,000 businesses, 850 direct exhibitors from 170 countries, 157,000 professionals, more than 8,000 journalists and almost 100,000 visitors over the five days of the event.

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The Bank of Spain said gross domestic product (GDP) fell 1.1% in the final quarter of 2008, following a 0.2% decline in the third quarter

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Manchester United and Real Madrid are reportedly on the trail of Brazilian starlet Wellington.The 17-year-old Wellington is also rumoured to be attracting the interests of Arsenal and Valencia, who are reportedly both keen to snap up the influential defensive midfielder.

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