Destinations

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A wine town above a network of medieval cellars dug under its streets, with a Gothic quarter above them.

The Miera valley village on the pass road over to Burgos, surrounded by beech woods.

The best-preserved medieval village in Cantabria, at the end of a valley road inside the Saja reserve.

A market town at the foot of the Tramuntana, with a 365-step climb to a small chapel above the roofs.

An old mining town behind the coast, with Roman fish-salting works and the eroded rocks of Bolnuevo next door.

A small Navarran town strapped around a fairy-tale royal castle, seat of the kings of Navarra in the 15th century.

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

A historic Camino de Santiago stop in Navarra famous for its Romanesque palaces and a legendarily wine-flowing fountain

A pottery town on the Camino Francés, with a church whose apse is a baroque altarpiece in wood.

A preserved medieval village of stone lanes above the Ebro, with the Vivanco wine museum on its edge.

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

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

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

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.

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

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