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The year in photos: Spain 2015

The Local's readers have taken some amazing photographs from around Spain this year. Here are some of our favourites.

Published: 31 December 2015 08:48 CET

The year in photos: Spain 2015

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This year The Local Spain started its own Instagram account and we have had some amazing photo submissions from our readers from all around Spain using the hashtag #thelocalspain

Check out some of our favourites by clicking on the link to the gallery below.

The year in photos: Spain 2015

Thank you to all our readers who have contributed photographs this year, we have loved getting a glimpse of Spain through your eyes and can't wait to see what you snap in 2016.

If you want to be our photo of the day, show us your Spain by tagging #thelocalspain on Instagram or emailing us your photographs to [email protected]

And don't forget to like The Local Spain on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to see every photo of the day – who knows, one of them could be yours!

The year in photos: Spain 2015

Photo: Eloy Beltené/Instagram

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13 of the best photos from this year's Venice carnival

Masked revellers in St Mark's Square on February 16, 2020. All photos: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP

Thousands of people, many dressed for a traditional masked ball, crowded into Saint Mark’s Square on Sunday to witness “the flight of the angel”, the opening event of the annual Venice Carnival.

Each first Sunday of the carnival, a young woman chosen as “Marie” has the honour of performing the stunt, gliding through the air on a harness attached to a cable from the 99-metre (325-foot) bell-tower of Saint Mark’s Basilica to a stage below.

“It was extraordinary, I felt the wind, the sea, the ground and the fire in me,” this year’s angel Linda Pani told AFP-TV.

This year’s “angel” Linda Pani after her flight.

She described the experience as “perhaps the happiest three minutes of my life”.

The centuries-old Venice Carnival, rooted in Christian festivities ahead of the fasting period of Lent, attracts crowds of foreign and Italian tourists to its masked balls and theatrical performances.

It is now one of the most famous carnival celebrations in the world, with around three million visitors coming to the city each spring to watch or join in the festivities.

READ ALSO: ‘Tourism is killing Venice, but it’s also the only key to survival’

However this year attendance has reportedly dropped, with some visitors staying away following severe flooding in November. Fears of the coronavirus are also thought to have stopped many people from travelling.

As a result, some parties and annual events had to be cancelled this year.

However, many were able to continue as usual, with grand masked balls being held in the city’s most famous hotels and venues.

The carnival, which lasts until February 25, was created in Venice in 1162, the day after a military victory.

All photos: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP

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