Spain's Best Small Towns

A dramatic Andalusian town perched spectacularly on the edges of a massive stone gorge

A harbour village at the mouth of the Urdaibai estuary, with a wave surfers travel for.

The best-looking harbour on the Bizkaian coast, with a basilica whose roof is a ship's hull.

One street, houses touching overhead, and a small ferry from the other side of the bay.

A village clinging to a cliff, with one square, one harbour and no room for a car.

A duke's entire seventeenth-century vision, intact and empty, an hour south of Burgos.

A walled village that reinvented itself around bookshops, and stayed small enough to walk in half an hour.

A stone village with a collegiate church and a tenth-century past, half an hour from Burgos.

A whitewashed coastal refuge famous for its artistic history and dramatic Cap de Creus setting

A fortified Basque fishing village with an old walled town and a strong pintxos scene.

An atmospheric medieval hilltown in Rioja defined by ancient bodegas carved directly into the surrounding rock

A historic port with a commanding fortress and quiet charm on the southern Galician coast

A tranquil stone mountain village in the Tramuntana range that famously captivated Chopin

A perfectly preserved medieval village in Cantabria serving as the gateway to ancient cave art

An Asturian fishing village where houses stack in an amphitheater around a tiny port.

A waterfront village on the Galician coast, known for its traditional stone granaries.

A striking pink-stone medieval village dramatically perched on a cliff over a river bend