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10 June – A Spanish court sentences three men to eight months in prison for racist chants directed towards Brazilian football player Vinícius Júnior. [22] 11 June – 2024 Spain floods. [23] 20 June – A cruise ship rescues 68 migrants and recovers five bodies in a wooden dinghy drifting off the Canary Islands. [24]
Disastrous floods have been reported throughout the history of Valencia, from the 14th century up to the contemporary period. [5] The 1957 Valencia flood was caused by a three-day cold drop (Spanish: gota fría) (which usually leads to heavy autumn rains in Spain and France); it overflowed the banks of the Túria river and devastated the city of Valencia.
2024 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
On 22 February 2024, at approximately 17:30 CET, [2] a fire broke out in a 14-storey luxury [3] [4] residential complex located in the Campanar district of Valencia, Spain. [5] The rapid spread of the fire, exacerbated by strong winds, building materials and a stack effect , led to the complete destruction of the complex's 138 apartments ...
In 2024, there were around 94 million tourists in Spain, compared to its 48 million population. [15] [16] The international tourist expenditure in 2024 was around 126 billion euros. [17] [clarification needed] Tourists to Spain can believe that their patronage is the main or only cause for the existence of local jobs in the areas they visit. [3]
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The 2023–2024 Spanish protests against Catalan amnesty were a series of protests which began in October 2023, resulting from the announced negotiations of then-acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) with former president of the Government of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont's Together for Catalonia (Junts) party.