Destinations

Dramatic Romanesque monastery built directly into a cliffside, famous for its intricate stone carvings

A glacial valley in the Aragonese Pyrenees, with serious summer hiking above the valley floor.

A stone hill village with a porticoed square, an archaeology museum and good local wine.

Teruel's high country: walled medieval villages on rock, stone streets and long views.

A hill village with a porticoed plaza, a Renaissance town hall and a ruined castle.

Pine and sandstone high country in southwest Teruel, with the pink town of Albarracín at its centre.

A stone village with an arcaded street on the road over the pass to the coast.

An architectural layer-cake of styles from Romanesque to Mudéjar, with a first-rate tapestry museum.

A small sierra village on the road north out of Albarracín, with sheep and stone.

The walking village of the Matarraña, at the mouth of the gorge the river cuts through.

Olive groves, gorges and medieval towns in the corner of Aragón that nobody crosses.

A river gorge walked on footbridges and cut steps, with green pools to swim in.

A walled village on a rock in the Maestrazgo, once the Carlist capital of the region.

A monumental Baroque basilica on the Ebro river, famous for its grand tiled domes and sacred Virgin column

A village in the middle of the pine forest, with resin traditions and mushroom country all round.

The essential destination for Goya enthusiasts, housing an extensive collection of the master's paintings and engravings

A long medieval wall you can walk, around a town that was never rebuilt for visitors.

The densest run of Mudejar towers in Aragón, in a town with no visitor infrastructure at all.

A cathedral with a painted dome and almost no visitors, on the border of three old kingdoms.

A historic city bridging Madrid and Barcelona, notable for its grand basilica and distinct Mudéjar architectural heritage

A single walled village, still enclosed by its gate and wall, that almost nobody visits.

A castle, a Gothic church and a bridge over the river: the capital of the Matarraña.

A pine-country town at the top of the Albarracín sierra road, with a cold climate and a cheese tradition.

The capital of Mudejar brickwork, four tiled towers strong, and almost nobody goes.

An 11th-century Islamic palace, notable for its golden Mudéjar throne room.

A group of 12th-to-16th-century Mudéjar-style brick towers in the town of Teruel, a UNESCO World Heritage designation.

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