The Catalonia government has on Sunday lifted the lockdown that confined 12,000 residents to their homes as firefighters managed to contain the blaze that broke out on Friday in La Bisbal d'Emporda, 12 miles from the Costa Brava coastline.

Hundreds of Spanish firefighters battled an expanding wildfire that was raging near the popular Mediterranean tourist destination of Costa Brava and had confined thousands to…

A wildfire fanned by the tramontana wind has burned around 750 hectares on the Costa Brava (Girona) and forced 12,000 people in several towns to stay indoors. In the area, another…