To many people of a certain age, the peseta is evocative of holidays in Spain when bundles of this exotic currency might buy a round of sangria or a paella. However, for Spaniards who may have guarded ...
An enterprising Spanish village is re-establishing the peseta (the former Spanish currency) in a bid to boost the local economy. The initiative started in January, after the locals in Villamayor de ...
The townsfolk of Mugardos in northwestern Spain are being encouraged to search out forgotten stashes of the defunct currency and to spend it in local shops. More than 60 shops in the fishing village ...
RECIFE, Brazil --When the Spanish bank Santander bought the debt-ridden, state-owned Banespa Bank in São Paulo, it was another indicator the Spaniards were re-conquering the New World. Only this time, ...
MADRID (MarketWatch) — For Gregorio Cifuentes and other merchants at a food market in the Chamberi neighborhood of central Madrid, indicators of Spain’s worst economic crisis in decades come daily, as ...
Los Angeles, California, United States, Sept. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ethereum 2.0 merger is just around the corner. Basically we are talking about the merger that will take place between the ...
A small town in northern Spain has decided to reintroduce the old Spanish currency - the peseta - alongside the euro to give the local economy a lift. Shopkeepers in Mugardos want anyone with ...
When the Spanish currency, the peseta, went out of circulation in 2002 to be replaced by the euro, Isabel Gonzalez, now 49, put aside 1,700 pesetas, or 10.2 euros ($11.8) to keep as a memory of the ...
A desperate Spanish village has turned back time and reintroduced the peseta in a bid to kick-start its ailing local economy. Residents in Villamayor de Santiago, 80 miles south-east of Madrid, ...