Police in northern Spain have recovered one of the country's great cultural treasures - a 12th-Century religious manuscript stolen a year ago. The Codex Calixtinus was found in a garage near Santiago ...

José Manuel Fernández Castiñeiras, the former electrician of the Santiago de Compostela cathedral in Galicia, in northern Spain, has been given a 10-year prison sentence for stealing the Codex ...

A former electrician appeared in a court in Spain on Monday accused of stealing one of the country’s most important cultural treasures – a 12th-century manuscript described as Europe’s first travel ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Four years after a priceless 12th-century travel guide, the Codex Calixtinus, ...

The presumed thief, named as Manuel Fernandez Castineiras, had worked as a caretaker and odd-job man for more than 25 years at the shrine of the apostle of St James but was sacked early last year ...