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Jump To Comment: 1Spanish police arrested 16 art forgers and sellers of false or stolen artworks and seized more than 10,000 artefacts in raids across the country, police said on Saturday.
The artefacts included archaeological treasures such as coins and figurines from several ancient cultures, forged paintings of famous Spanish artists and equipment to make fake and aged coins.
Police said in a statement that while thefts of artworks from Spanish museums and galleries had decreased in recent years, thefts from archaeological sites and trafficking in forged artworks were on the rise.
The arrested traffickers used a wide variety of methods to sell artefacts, from online auctions to old-style stands at flea markets, police said.
Some of the seized paintings were so technically accomplished that art experts alone were not able to establish if they were authentic, and laboratory analyses would be needed, the statement added.
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The king of spain has given today St Jordi kills the dragon day, the annual prize for literature the cervantes garland which notes the death day of both the great writers who in their day were on the index of immorality.
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio has won the prize this year though confusing it is the "2004 cervantes prize".
He was the son of the franco-ist intellectual Rafael Sanchez Mazas (the dandyish anti-hero of Javier Cercas's great Soldiers of Salamis), and grew up in Rome, hates cinema and telly and liked Kafka.
has published some novels amongst which are:-
Industrias y andanzas de Alfanhuí [the projects and wanderings of Alfanhuí] (1951) is a work of fantasy about a child's wanderings through Spain. El Jarama (1956, tr. The One Day of the Week, 1962) has no single protagonist but many insignificant characters whose personalities are revealed in the realism of their dialogue.
The king said the usual something about Cervantes being really good if you want to learn spanish, and how he likes quixotic plots, coz he's a king and that's the sort of thing he's supposed to like. He didn't say anything about catalan though, coz he knows he's not supposed to, coz he's a spanish king, and they're all rabid republican hooligans and his job isn't promoting their language but he sort of likes them you know.
http://www.donquijotedelamancha2005.com/