Puccini's "Crisantemi" was played in Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu before an audience of 2,292 plants that filled the venue to capacity.
Spain has gone through some hard times, with a deep recession and high unemployment. Yet anti-immigrant, anti-EU politics don't resonate there.
These Spanish freight trucks got an impressive artistic makeover.
After four decades in power, Spanish King Juan Carlos has announced he is stepping down and handing the throne to his son, Prince Felipe. The king bucked expectations that he would be a follow-on dictator to Franco and became the father of Spain's democracy.
There's an old saying that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Well, times are certainly tough in Spain. And so some tough residents got creative.