Destinations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dali's home town, and the museum he built inside its theatre.

Romanesque frescoes and Catalan art, in the palace on Montjuic.

The most ornamental concert hall in Europe, and a Modernista masterpiece.

The hill above the port: gardens, a castle, the Miro foundation and the Olympic ring.

The bare, wind-carved headland where the Pyrenees fall into the sea.

The fisherman's house Dali rebuilt into a warren, above a small bay.

Catalonia's only national park: high lakes, granite and pine in the Pyrenees.

A green country of extinct volcanoes and beech woods.

Golden stone lanes cut into living rock, ten minutes from Pals.

A fortified bridge, a medieval core and one of Europe's best-preserved ritual baths.

A hilltop stone village above the Emporda's rice fields.

The only walled old town on the Costa Brava, standing over its own bay.

A Greek city and a Roman city, side by side on the sea.

White Indiano houses on a hill above the best coves of the Costa Brava.

A working port on the Costa Brava with the coast path running through it.

The city's most mixed quarter, between the Rambla and the port.

An inland market city with a great arcaded square and a serious charcuterie culture.

A village swallowed by the city, with squares, terraces and its own festival.

Gaudi's birthplace, and the capital of Catalan vermouth.

The best-preserved medieval Jewish quarter in Spain, on a hillside of steps.

A monastery town at the foot of the Pyrenees, on the road into the mountains.

The old cathedral on its hill, and the gateway to the Pyrenees.

Barcelona's old artisans' quarter, and now its densest concentration of good eating.