Destinations

A massive Gothic cathedral with the Giralda tower and the tomb of Columbus.

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

An ancient, seafaring city rich in history, sherry culture, and authentic Atlantic charm

A peaceful coastal haven celebrated for its vast Atlantic shores and the finest bluefin tuna in the region

A wild and pristine Atlantic escape backed by massive dunes and significant Roman archaeological ruins

The crown jewel of Islamic architecture in Europe and Spain’s most essential monument

An expansive golden beach known for its beautiful sunsets and the historic castle ruins sitting on a tidal island

A remarkably preserved Roman fishing town located directly on a white-sand beach near the Strait of Gibraltar

An unfinished Renaissance cathedral nicknamed La Manquita, famous for its accessible roof and sweeping city vistas

A Renaissance architectural gem housing the ornate royal chapel where the Catholic Monarchs find their final rest

A Roman city near Seville with an amphitheater and well-preserved mosaics.

The Granada viewpoint, framing the Alhambra against the Sierra Nevada.

The birthplace of paella, with a strong arts and gardens scene and a long urban beach.

The serene summer palace and lush garden retreat of the Alhambra's Nasrid sultans

A clifftop coastal town offering caves and quiet coves, perfect for those seeking authentic character

The heart of Andalusian culture, defined by Moorish palaces, authentic flamenco, and lively tapas bars

Spain's capital, defined by world-class art museums, a dense urban core, and a late-night social culture.

A historic city defined by the unique red-and-white arches of its incredible Mezquita

A bohemian kitesurfing paradise where the Atlantic and Mediterranean collide

An underrated coastal hub with a thriving art scene and a highly walkable historic center

A unique architectural marvel in Córdoba featuring a massive cathedral embedded within a forest of Islamic horseshoe arches

A city built around the Alhambra, with an equally strong free-tapas culture.

A strategic 14th-century fortress offering the most comprehensive panoramic views of the city, port, and coast

Madrid's Las Ventas — Spain's national bullring, a 1931 neo-Mudéjar monument and the center of bullfighting.

A historic mountainside quarter known for its hillside troglodyte caves and traditional soulful cave flamenco

A Huelva mining town where the river runs red and a British company dug copper by the ton.

A beautiful 11th-century Moorish citadel featuring terraced gardens and the finest outlook over the port

A massive, avant-garde wooden structure offering a panoramic rooftop walkway and ancient Roman ruins below

A distinctive glass cube on the port hosting world-class modern art exhibitions from the Paris collection

Seville's artisan district across the river, known for its ceramics, riverfront, and neighborhood tapas.

A curated collection of Picasso works housed within a 16th-century palace in the artist's hometown

A maze of whitewashed lanes in Córdoba, with historic synagogues and flower-filled corners.

The impressive ruins of a grand 10th-century caliphal city, offering a window into the splendor of al-Andalus

Granada's historic Moorish quarter, a labyrinth of white streets leading to perfect views of the Alhambra

The world capital of sherry, with bodega tours and deep flamenco roots.

An exquisite Mudéjar royal palace in Seville featuring lush, sprawling gardens that feel plucked from fantasy

A protected, undeveloped beach inside Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park reached by dirt track or a 30-minute walk.

A restored cliff-side boardwalk near Málaga that offers a thrilling and safe passage through a massive gorge

A compact urban beach in Cádiz's historic center, flanked by Castillo de San Sebastián and Castillo de Santa Catalina.

Home of the Esperanza Macarena, Seville's most beloved Holy Week virgin — tearful, jeweled, and the emotional engine of Madrugada.

A small volcanic-rock beach within Cabo de Gata Natural Park, a short drive from Genoveses.

The town painted by Picasso: a Monday market, an assembly house, and the oak the Basques swore under.

A tidal estuary of marshes and sandbanks, with the best surf beach on the coast at its mouth.

The Roman bridge linking Córdoba's old city to the Mezquita.

The world's first transporter bridge, still carrying cars and passengers across the Nervión on a hanging gondola.

Cliffs of vertically tilted rock between Zumaia and Deba, with a coastal path along the top.

The Basque capital most travellers skip: a medieval almond, a cathedral restoration you can visit, and a serious pintxos crawl.

A labyrinthine former Jewish quarter defined by whitewashed lanes, hidden flower-filled patios, and orange-scented air

A long, exposed beach at Tarifa facing the Strait of Gibraltar, known for consistent wind.

A grand 1929 Ibero-American architectural masterpiece featuring tiled bridges and canals encircling a historic plaza

The largest olive-growing province on earth, a landscape of one crop for as far as you can drive.

A town with a university older than any other in the Basque Country, and a modern sanctuary in the valley above.

Seville's oldest parish (1266), Mudéjar-Gothic in the heart of Triana — the sailors' church with a Triana-vista tower.

Cáceres's northwest corner on the Portuguese border, where three villages speak a language of their own.

A granite gorge on the Duero, with villages built on the lip of it and pre-phylloxera vineyards behind.

Baroque charity-church hospital dripping with Murillo canvases and Valdés Leal's memento-mori pair — Seville's densest art-per-square-meter.

Soria's roof: a working pine forest, a black glacial lake, and the source of the Duero.

A cave of eccentric stalactites that bend and loop instead of hanging straight down.

A mountain range on the Lugo-León border, with slate villages and round thatched pallozas.

Baroque basilica housing the Gran Poder — the solemn Christ of the early-Morning processions and a masterwork of Juan de Mesa.

Three Cantabrian valleys of summer pasture, where families still move uphill with the cows.

Ronda's 1785 bullring — the oldest in Spain and one of the most photographed, now mostly a museum of bullfighting history.

Seville's Maestranza bullring — the oldest and most prestigious in Spain after Madrid, a Baroque ring on the edge of the Guadalquivir.

Dizzying High Baroque basilica, every surface gilded, painted or tiled — the most theatrical church interior in Andalusia.

The hot, flat east of La Rioja: vegetables, shoes, storks, and wine in volume.

A sheltered green basin under the Picos de Europa, with a monastery, a cable car and Cantabria's best cheese.

A Mediterranean icon blending historic Gothic architecture, modern Gaudí masterpieces, and a lively urban beach

The dry, high Almería half of the Alpujarra, where Moorish water channels still irrigate the slopes.

Golden domed cathedral by the sea, offering the most spectacular rooftop views in Cádiz

The great southern Camino — a Roman road turned pilgrimage, 1000 km from Sevilla through Extremadura's dehesas into Galicia.

Mystical, mist-covered laurel forest preserving a rare ecosystem untouched for millennia

A Gothic cathedral in Bilbao's old town, formerly a parish church elevated to cathedral status in 1949.

A provincial capital with a fine Renaissance cathedral, Arab baths, and a tapa with most drinks.

A well-preserved Golden Age town, known for its open-air corral de comedias and Plaza Mayor.

Surreal, Mars-like volcanic landscape featuring active geothermal vents and dramatic craters

A Gothic cathedral in Barcelona's Gothic Quarter, built primarily between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Premier birdwatching wilderness offering a rare look at protected vultures and eagles in flight

The rugged Atlantic Camino — green cliffs, surf towns, and Basque and Galician coast from Irún. Long, hilly, and spectacular.

A landmark titanium building by Frank Gehry that transformed the industrial city of Bilbao into a cultural destination

A natural harbor with layers of history, from Carthaginian roots to Roman ruins and modernista architecture.

A 9th-century pre-Romanesque royal building on a hillside above Oviedo, originally built as a palace hall.

A cinematic UNESCO semi-desert landscape defined by surreal sculpted clay formations and isolated monoliths

El Greco's life and work in a reconstructed house, including his View of Toledo and the major religious paintings.

The gentler, greener cousin of the Francés — flat stages, Portuguese food and wine, and a quieter pilgrim scene to Santiago.

The granite ridge an hour north of Madrid, and the city's shared outdoor living room.

Spain's second-largest monastery, Baroque and immense, facing the cathedral — its churrigueresque facade and twin-squared cloister dwarf everything on the plaza.

An inland salt valley of wooden terraces, worked for salt long before anyone thought of the coast.

A Gothic cathedral in Santander built over an earlier Romanesque church, with a preserved medieval crypt.

A market town with beans named after it, an arcaded square and a river through the middle.

An arcaded market town with a dark history and the old road to Vitoria running through it.

The beating heart of Ribera del Duero wine country, renowned for its underground cellars and traditional roast lamb

The apple valleys behind the Asturian coast, where cider is still pressed a village at a time.

A Baroque basilica and pilgrimage complex in the Basque Country marking the birthplace of Ignatius of Loyola.

A Roman-built lighthouse from the 2nd century AD, still operational, on the coast near A Coruña.

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.

A chapel on a rock reached by a stone bridge and 241 steps, above the most dramatic stretch of the Basque coast.

A fashion museum in Getaria, in a palace at the edge of the village where Balenciaga was born.

A surf town with two kilometres of sand, twenty minutes from San Sebastián at half the price.

Salamanca's mountain villages: dark stone, wooden balconies, and one town everyone already knows.

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

A Wednesday market running since 1512, and the cheese competition that goes with it.

A working Benedictine abbey with a first-rate Romanesque cloister and daily sung offices.

Four mountain lakes in a green basin, an hour and a half on foot from the road.

Mountains between Bizkaia and Álava, and the cave where Basque mythology puts its goddess.

The village below the monastery of Yuste, with water channels, flowered balconies and good restaurants.

A working knife-making town in the far west of Asturias, where the workshops still sell what they make.

Chestnut and cork hills in northern Huelva, where the pigs eat acorns and Sevilla goes for the weekend.

Paprika, chestnut groves and cold mountain streams under the Gredos range.

Terraced valleys and slate villages in the mountains north of Extremadura, cut off for centuries.

A small port where the cliffs expose sixty million years of rock in vertical stripes.

The short one — the route medieval English and Northern European pilgrims sailed to before walking to Santiago. Five days from Ferrol.

A Renaissance town built on 16th-century court money, and the best base for the olive country.

The administrative village of Somiedo, where the cheese and the chorizo are sold.

A fishing town at the mouth of the Miño, with Portugal a short hop across the water.

A town on the ría del Eo looking across at Galicia, with indiano mansions and good seafood.

A horseshoe bend of the Alagón seen from the road, and the view that made Las Hurdes known.

A summer settlement of thatched stone huts, still used, still standing, in the Somiedo high pastures.

High mountain valleys, working summer pastures and brown bears, an hour inland from the coast.

Western Asturias: watermills, knife workshops, slate hamlets and the greenest corner of the north.

The Basque Country's most serious fishing port, with working boats in the harbour and almost no visitors.

A stone village with 388 portraits of its own former residents painted on the house walls.

Parallel ridges in eastern Cáceres where the geology is the sight, and a monastery town at the edge.

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

The village to sleep in for Somiedo: stone houses, small hotels, and bears in the woods above.

One water channel running a mill, a forge, a fulling mill and a generator, still working.

The famous one: dark stone, wooden balconies and coaches arriving from ten in the morning.

The western end of the flysch coast: a stone old town, a good beach, and a Camino stage.

The oldest village in Las Hurdes, at the head of a valley where the road turns toward Salamanca.

Eduardo Chillida's three iron sculptures anchored in the rock at the end of the beach.

Galicia's quietest mountain: chestnut and oak forest, a fossil ridge, and villages of four houses.

The village whose name is a protected designation, surrounded by oak woods and curing houses.

A waterfall and swimming pool on the river Hurdano, twenty minutes on foot from the road.

The smallest and best-situated of the sierra's four famous villages, under a duke's castle.

A walled village with a castle, a square built as a bullring and two of the sierra's best tables.

The capital of the Almería Alpujarra, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, with water everywhere.

The practical base for La Vera, built around a castle a Habsburg emperor stayed in.

A granite and whitewash village where they still speak A Fala, a language of their own.

The largest colony of white storks in Europe, on the roof of a collegiate church above the Ebro.

A terraced village that built the Almería grape trade on slopes only reachable by mule.

Spain's most rugged limestone range rising from the Atlantic, offering world-class mountain scenery and hiking

An world-class art gallery housing Spain's most significant collection of masterpieces by Velázquez, Goya, and El Greco

A protected paradise of white sand and turquoise water, representing the pinnacle of Spanish coastal beauty

A serene, superbly preserved medieval walled city, with comparatively few visitors.

A treasure trove of antiquity featuring the best-preserved Roman theater and bridge in Spain

A green and lively Asturian city famed for its distinct cider culture and regional heritage

An otherworldly volcanic landscape shaped by art and architecture, from lava fields to vineyard pits

Beyond the clubs, a beautiful island with a historic walled town, secluded coves, and rural charm

A diverse island dominated by Mount Teide, offering everything from volcanic hiking to winter sun

The quietest of the Balearics, with a long, varied coastline and little resort development.

A serrated mountain monastery near Barcelona offering spectacular hiking, a historic boys choir, and unique rock formations

A refined Atlantic port city that serves as a perfect hub for exploring the Cantabrian coast

A photogenic peninsula town crowned by a historic castle and flanked by Mediterranean beaches on both sides

The ultimate culinary pilgrimage destination featuring world-class pintxos and pristine beaches

Santander’s elegant grand beach, framed by Belle Époque architecture and scenic coastal paths

Globally significant prehistoric site containing the oldest human remains found in Europe

A world-class cultural center celebrating 8,000 years of winemaking history in the heart of Rioja

Historic endpoint of the Camino de Santiago featuring a grand cathedral and the famous swinging censer

Gaudí's visionary, still-unfinished basilica featuring an interior of forest-like columns that defies architectural convention

Extensive collection of Picasso's formative works housed within five elegant medieval palaces

A secluded, crystal-clear turquoise cove that captures the essence of a tranquil Menorcan escape

A magnificent Gothic cathedral in Toledo noted for its unique Baroque lighting effects and profound art collection

A cathedral that layers Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque in one facade.

Spain's foremost Roman archaeological site, centered on a great theatre and its surrounding ruins.

The Canaries' most substantial urban base, pairing a colonial old town with a long city beach.

A collection of untouched, turquoise coves at the southern tip of Lanzarote, accessible only by a rustic track

A fleeting, spectacular mountain event where millions of cherry trees bloom to blanket the valley in white

Spiritually significant monastery featuring ornate Mudejar cloisters and a rich colonial history

The great Baroque square of Salamanca, and the city's evening living room.

A distinguished fine arts collection featuring masters like Velázquez alongside a premier assembly of Basque modern art

Spectacular seaside cathedral featuring a massive Gothic rose window and Gaudí-inspired design

A sacred basalt monolith, with wide sunset views over the island's cloud layer.

A hamlet set deep in a dramatic ravine, one of Tenerife's most rugged landscapes.

Vast, warm, and calm saltwater lagoon perfect for family activities and water sports

Spain's highest peak surrounded by a dramatic, otherworldly volcanic crater landscape

A unique golden-sand beach near San Andrés, offering calm, palm-fringed waters unlike anywhere else on the island

A photogenic 15th-century Gothic palace facade adorned with hundreds of carved seashells

Historic gateway to the Camino Francés, steeped in legends of Charlemagne and medieval piety

A 13th-century cathedral in Valencia housing a chalice venerated as the Holy Grail.

Authentically restored 15th-century castle offering a glimpse into grand medieval courtly life

A rare 12th-century synagogue with outstanding Mudéjar plasterwork.

Bilbao's old town: narrow medieval streets and one of the densest concentrations of pintxo bars anywhere.

A Sahara-like dune field spilling onto a golden beach, the most distinctive natural landscape in the Canaries.

A dual cathedral complex where visitors can ascend into the galleries and walk the roofline for unique perspectives

Valencia's 1859 neo-classical bullring beside the Norte station — active in the July fair, with a small bullfighting museum.

The market town of Liébana, with stone bridges, towers, and the road up to the Picos.

A protected stretch of wild coves and salt flats offering a raw, facility-free escape from the typical resort coast

A monastery holding a fragment of the True Cross, once one of Christianity's four holy places.

Vigo's old fishing quarter and fish market, where the boats land and the prices are set.

The original Camino — the route King Alfonso II walked in the 9th century. Short, mountainous, and the most physically tough interior route.

A functional, uniquely two-sided sandbar separating the Mediterranean from the Mar Menor lagoon

Toledo's most ornate Gothic monastery, built as a royal tomb and distinguished by its intricate star-ribbed ceiling

A glacial lake under the Urbión peaks, black-bottomed and wrapped in pine and legend.

A historic fortress offering insight into the Civil War alongside unmatched city views from its summit

Granite rock pools in the Jerte valley, scooped out by the river and ice-cold in July.

Spain's largest protected area, where the olive groves stop and the pine forest and deer begin.

The only Camino that doesn't end in Santiago — it starts there. Walk west to the Atlantic at Finisterre and the shrine at Muxía.

A white village under a sacred rock, with a chapel and a view over the whole sierra.

The sierra's working town, with a plaza, a market and none of the fuss of its neighbours.

The main village below the Laguna Negra, with stone houses and a long rope-making past.

A dramatic medieval town dominated by a hilltop castle housing the region's premier wine museum

Baroque palaces under a hilltop castle, in a Murcian city foreigners have not discovered.

Gothic Franciscan convent, traditionally founded by St Francis himself on pilgrimage in 1214.

A restored mineral railway running through the mining landscape on the old company line.

A working harbor and summer town, with two beaches and good surf on the right swell.

A kilometre of chambers and underground lakes beneath the town, open since 1914.

The best-preserved group of pallozas in Spain: round stone houses under conical thatch.

The finest surviving patch of Atlantic woodland in Galicia, on the north face of the Courel.

The main village of the Pas valley, and the home of the sobao pasiego.

A hilltop village over the Arribes gorge, with stone lanes and old bodegas cut into the rock.

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

A Madrid reservoir with sandy bays, where the city swims when the heat gets serious.

The vegetable town of La Rioja, with a Roman past and a cathedral most visitors skip.

The sierra's summit sanctuary, 1,723 m, with a black Madonna and views to Portugal.

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

A spring-fed river in Navarra so clear it looks artificial, and reached only on foot.

A cable car that lifts you 750 metres into the Picos de Europa in four minutes.

A UNESCO geopark of folded ridges: mountains you can read like a diagram.

One of the Catholic world's five holy cities, built up a hill around a relic and a fortress.

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

The hill above Bilbao, reached by a century-old funicular, with the whole city laid out below.

A working white town with a castle, a Thursday market and a cave: the base for the sierra.

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

The grand Lady of Cathedrals, marking the final major Gothic achievement in Spain with a towering, historic profile

A coastal escape within easy reach of Barcelona, with a long beach and a compact old town.

A contemporary art museum housed within an ancient bastion, blending historic stone with modern glass for a striking view

A storied city with exceptional cathedral stained glass and a long-standing free-tapas culture.

A university city of golden sandstone, built around one of the finest squares in Spain.

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

A diverse island miniature of ecosystems ranging from dramatic sand dunes to lush green valleys and rugged mountain peaks

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

A breezy Atlantic peninsula city home to the world's oldest working lighthouse and elite seafood

The Sistine Chapel of prehistoric art featuring exquisite ancient bison paintings

A livable Catalan city featuring a dramatic Roman amphitheater on the seaside without the heavy crowds of nearby Barcelona

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

A significant stop on the Camino circuit defined by its grand Gothic cathedral and compact center

A historic walled city perfect for walking, featuring a dramatic Jewish quarter and epicurean excellence

The world's oldest hotel, in a former pilgrim hospital with a fine cloister.

The best-known European pilgrimage route, crossing northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela.

Ancient cloud forest and UNESCO site offering a glimpse into prehistoric European landscapes

A historic Camino crossroads city offering a sophisticated pintxos scene and handsome architecture

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

A dramatic, uncrowded town featuring an imposing castle and the storied birthplace of the conquistadors

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

The sacred granite-built pilgrimage destination at the end of the Camino de Santiago

Quiet monastic retreat where Holy Roman Emperor Charles V chose to spend his final days

An industrial-chic port city anchored by the Guggenheim and a world-class Basque food scene

The capital of Rioja wine culture, with a station quarter packed with century-old bodegas.

Remarkably preserved Roman theater integrated into a modern museum beneath a medieval castle

A former imperial capital dense with history, medieval lanes, and two historic synagogues.

A tiny fishing village renowned for grilled turbot and traditional Txakoli wine with a view

A whimsical, UNESCO-listed Gaudí park featuring mosaic creatures, organic columns, and sweeping panoramic city views

The best base for Rioja wine country, known for Calle del Laurel and its pintxos.

Valencia's expansive city beach, famous for its lively promenade and authentic paella restaurants

Barcelona's historic city beach, on the edge of the old fishermen's quarter.

Europe's largest palace by area, with Bourbon interiors, a major armory, and formal royal gardens.

An unusual twelve-sided Templar church modeled after Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre, standing as a rare Romanesque treasure

A futuristic complex in Valencia's old riverbed, holding science and aquarium halls in white concrete shells.

An enduring Roman-era bridge that offers the most classic sunset views of Salamanca

A park promenade with the defining view of the cathedral spires above the granite old town.

A hilltop viewpoint with the classic curved-bay view of San Sebastián, reached by a vintage funicular.

A 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct, and the defining sight of Segovia.

A grand 14th-century Gothic gatehouse offering the best panoramic views over Valencia

A ridge of white windmills and a medieval castle, the classic Don Quixote landscape in the flesh.

A Gothic cathedral in Girona famous for having the widest Gothic nave in the world.

A warm, underrated regional capital known for its baroque cathedral and exceptional market garden produce

A grand Cistercian monastery and royal pantheon, set in a forest clearing.

An architectural masterpiece of Gothic design and a monument to Valencia's silk trading heritage

A maze of medieval alleys and Roman history, forming the atmospheric and historic heart of the Catalan capital

A historic Gothic royal residence serving as the official summer home of Spanish royalty

Madrid's essential modern art museum, housing Picasso's monumental anti-war masterpiece Guernica

A historic Dominican convent turned museum, notable for its striking Sert murals and extensive Basque societal history

A world-class private art collection spanning eight centuries, bridging the gap between classical and modern masterworks

A world-class museum of wine history, in the village at the center of Rioja culture.

A historic town rich in monumental heritage and spiritual significance.

An 11th-century granite defensive wall encircling the old city of Ávila, largely intact with 88 towers.

The midway point of the Camino Francés, known for its Mudéjar architecture.

Dominican convent with a soaring Plateresque stone facade — carvings so fine they read like silverwork, not masonry.

A long, protected natural beach on Mallorca's south coast known for pale sand and shallow water.

A pair of monasteries in La Rioja, Suso and Yuso, linked to the earliest written texts in the Spanish language.

One of Europe’s oldest universities famous for its intricate facade and hidden stone frog

The Atlantic alternative to the Central Portugués — boardwalks and fishing villages up the Portuguese coast before cutting inland to Santiago.

A Gaudí residential building with a skeletal, scaled facade and a fluid, windowless interior.

A quintessentially medieval hill town in Castilla-La Mancha featuring a grand castle-cathedral and a historic Jewish quarter

13th-century Romanesque-Mudéjar church with rare Visigothic origins and a full set of Romanesque wall paintings.

Basque pilgrimage basilica rebuilt in the 1950s — raw concrete, Oteiza's apostles, Chillida doors, a serrated silhouette above a limestone gorge.

The most popular starting point for those completing the final 100km to Santiago.

Single-nave Catalan Gothic church in the Gothic Quarter with a vast 10th-century rose window.

A town relocated above a reservoir, featuring a distinctive fortified church.

Home to the Church of San Martín, a jewel of Romanesque architecture.

Mudéjar parish church housing El Greco's 1586 masterpiece, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.

The highest of the Pasiego villages, up a dead-end valley of pastures and stone cabañas.

A timber village in the heart of the pine forest, with the sawmills still working.

A working village at the foot of the Villuercas ridges, with the geopark centre nearby.

Free-standing octagonal Romanesque church in a wheat field outside Puente la Reina — a Templar-grade puzzle box on the Camino.

Famous for its local cheese and final convergence with other pilgrimage routes.

Mallorca's north-western spine, terraced in olive and stone since the 13th century and UNESCO-listed as a cultural landscape.

A small Asturian fishing harbour where the houses stand almost in the water.

The anchovy town of the Cantabrian coast, backed by marshes full of birds.

Baroque Jesuit church with twin towers; climb the bell tower for Salamanca's best rooftop panorama.

Isabelline-Gothic monastery church behind the Prado — site of royal weddings and the setting for Velázquez court scenes.

The small capital of the Courel: a handful of houses, one bar, and the road through the range.

12th-century Romanesque Lombard church in the Vall de Boí, its original Pantocrator frescoes now in MNAC and projected back onto the apse in situ.

Cistercian abbey on the Catalan Ruta del Cister — a Gothic cloister by a Moorish master-builder, royal tombs, and a still, fortified quiet.

A historic crossroads famous for its beautiful Romanesque bridge.

A quiet town set in the rolling forests and agricultural lands of Galicia.

Valladolid's oldest church, its slender Romanesque brick tower rising incongruously above the modern city center.

Úbeda's quieter neighbour, with a university, a plaza, and twenty minutes of road between them.

A small inland town that hosts the annual cider festival and the region's cider museum.

A quiet Murcian hill town with real streets and no visitors, next to somewhere far better known.

A village over a gorge on the road down from the Alpujarra to the coast.

A cider town with an estuary, a weekly rhythm, and the biggest cidery in Spain on its doorstep.

A quiet, elongated village dominated by the ruins of a hilltop castle.

The Salamanca-side village above the dam, at the deepest and narrowest point of the gorge.

Isabelline-Gothic church whose extravagantly carved facade is one of the finest in Castile.

Pure Catalan Gothic basilica built by the port's shipwrights and longshoremen, 1329–1383.

A shoe town under red rock cliffs, with the region's best-known factory outlets.

Cold river pools on the Lozoya, in a valley with a monastery at the end of it.

The main village of the León side of the Ancares, at the foot of the range's highest ground.

The gateway town below the Sierra, with a castle on the hill and the park road behind it.

Twin of Sant Climent in the same valley — smaller, quieter Romanesque church with its own conserved apse paintings.

A town defined by a cathedral that houses live chickens in honor of a local miracle.

A ruined castle stranded on a rock above a hamlet of a few houses.

The longest beach in Galicia, backed by dunes near the village of Carnota.

The classic Picos de Europa day hike, tracing a limestone gorge along an old cliff path.

A long, cliff-backed beach on Lanzarote's northwest coast, known for surfing and strong currents.

A castle perched on a cliff, long cited as a classic of medieval military architecture.

A walkable Galician city with a well-preserved old town.

Romantic Gothic royal palace defined by its elegant towers, hanging gardens, and historic luxury

Dalí's theatre-museum in his hometown, holding his crypt and the core of his work.

A Gothic cathedral in Oviedo built atop earlier pre-Romanesque structures, including the 9th-century Cámara Santa.

A 17th-century arcaded public square in central Madrid, historically used for markets and public events.

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

A gravity-defying city with historic houses clinging precariously to the edges of a steep river gorge

Luminous Gothic cathedral world-renowned for its vast collection of 13th-century stained glass

A wild, dune-backed beach within the Dunas de Liencres Natural Park near Santander.

A historic colonial university city that served as the architectural blueprint for Spanish settlement in the Americas

Eroded sandstone towers standing on the sand — the Gredas de Bolnuevo, sculpted by wind into ramparts and figures.

A long, wide sandy beach with a developed promenade in Gandia, Valencia.

A photogenic medieval outpost best known for its uniquely intact and walkable city walls

A perfect crescent of golden sand in the heart of San Sebastián.

A long urban beach in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, split by a natural reef into calm and wave sections.

A pine-covered limestone range in the middle of Murcia, with snow wells, Barbary sheep and the region's best walking.

A bustling fishing port serving as the primary gateway to the spectacular Cíes Islands

Royal collegiate with the Panteón de Reyes — Romanesque frescoes so vivid it's called the 'Sistine Chapel of Spain'.

A Benedictine monastery in a gorge in the Sierra de la Demanda, home of La Rioja's patroness.

A Camino Francés town whose Santa María la Real carries one of the finest Romanesque portals in Spain.

A 13th-century Templar castle set atop a rocky peninsula in the coastal town of Peñíscola.

A tidal beach in Galicia known for its natural rock arches, with access limited by tide times and a summer permit system.

A small inland beach in Asturias fed by an underground seawater channel, declared a Natural Monument.

A tidal beach within the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve near Mundaka in the Basque Country.

A small pine-backed cove near Begur on the Costa Brava, with a parador hotel overlooking the bay.

An undeveloped beach within Calblanque Regional Park on the Murcian coast, with limited vehicle access.

A 16th-century monastery, palace, and royal burial site built by Philip II northwest of Madrid.

A rare circular Gothic fortress offering the finest panoramic views across Palma Bay

A black-sand beach in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, landscaped by César Manrique and sheltered by breakwaters.

A pine-backed cove on Menorca's south coast, reached by a short walk from the nearest parking.

A 12th-century Romanesque cathedral in Zamora known for its distinctive ribbed dome.

A twin medieval fortress complex above the town of Xàtiva, used historically as a royal prison.

A royal pleasure town of gardens and waterways, forty-five minutes south of Madrid.

A cave of eccentric stalactites above the Rionansa valley, discovered by miners following a lead seam.

An early 20th-century royal summer palace on a peninsula overlooking Santander's bay.

A cathedral in central Madrid completed in 1993, adjacent to the Royal Palace.

A long sandy beach in the surf town of Zarautz on the Basque coast.

A cathedral in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria built over four centuries, combining Gothic, Renaissance, and Neoclassical elements.

A bare limestone islet rising 400 metres off Ibiza's south-west coast, the island's most talismanic view.

Murcia's westernmost port, under a castle and a wide bay, with an unexpectedly grand Carnival in February.

A green Pyrenean valley of big houses and oak forest, the wealthiest corner of rural Navarra.

Gaudi's stone wave on the Passeig de Gracia, with its rooftop chimneys.

The smallest inhabited Balearic island, flat, sandy and reachable only by ferry from Ibiza.

The Roman capital of Spain, with an amphitheatre facing the sea.

A hilltop village above the Ebro with a castle, a 12th-century bridge and a Holy Week of self-flagellation.

Europe's largest palm grove, planted by the Arabs in the 10th century and still irrigated by its original channels.

A limestone gorge cut by the Irati river, with a disused railway path through it and griffon vultures overhead.

A hilltop fortress-village above the Navarran plains, crowned by a Romanesque church the kings of Navarra favoured.

A valley town in the green hills of the Galician countryside.

A cliff-enclosed beach on the Asturian coast near Cudillero, reached via a steep staircase.

Madrid's barrio of second-hand shops, bars and late nights, north of Gran Via.

A long sandy beach across the Bahía de Santander, reached by ferry from the city, popular for surfing.

A cluster of small coves fronting a whitewashed former fishing village on the Costa Brava.

Navarra's second city on the Ebro, with a Mudéjar-Romanesque cathedral cloister and the vegetable gardens that feed the region.

A mountain village of ancient stone pallozas, with wide views over the surrounding hills.

A cove at the mouth of the Torrent de Pareis, reached by the Nus de sa Corbata, a road with a knot in it.

A port town on the Cantabrian border with a Gothic church, a castle doubling as a lighthouse, and a good beach.

A walled village of one street and a castle on La Rioja's western edge, recently voted among the prettiest in Spain.

Menorca's old capital on the west coast, with a deep harbour inlet and a medieval core of golden stone.

Known as the Little Santiago, it is the gateway to the mountains of Galicia.

A stone village under the Devesa da Rogueira, with the best access to the old woodland.

A palm-forest city inland from Alicante, with a UNESCO palm grove, a mystery play and two millennia of layers.

A reservoir of green water in the mountains behind Benidorm, with a castle and a village on the rock above it.

The cider museum in Nava explains the whole cycle: orchard, press, barrel, pour.

Benedictine monastery on the Camino Francés, continuously occupied since the 6th century — two cloisters, one Renaissance, one Neoclassical, set deep in a river gorge.

A small town on the Navia with a medieval bridge, at the entrance to the Ancares from the north.

The fortified upper town of Eivissa, walled by Philip II's engineers and UNESCO-listed since 1999.