While publication is largely circumscribed to Eastern Andalusia [es], Ideal is distributed in the provinces of Granada, Almería and Jaén, where it has local editions.

The Catholic hierarchy of Granada decided to launch a new newspaper, counting on the collaboration of journalists such as Ángel Herrera Oria y de Pedro Gómez Aparicio.

[7] In these early years of existence was a clearly confessional and conservative newspaper,[8] and its main journalistic rival was the liberal El Defensor de Granada.

[14] On 10 March 1936 a group of right wing supporters [c] set fire to the offices of Ideal, whose printing press was destroyed and the premises reduced to the foundations.

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