Girona

A three-Michelin-starred Catalan temple of technical, playful, and consistently world-class fine dining

Barcelona's local market, recognizable by its colorful undulating roof and beloved for its excellent neighborhood bar counters

A classic Catalan dessert of creamy citrus custard finished with a caramelized sugar crust

A Catalan winter ritual: char-grilled spring onions dipped in romesco sauce.

A rustic Catalan farmhouse staple featuring savory pork sausage paired with tender white beans

A smoky, rustic Catalan salad of fire-charred aubergine, peppers, and onions dressed in quality olive oil

Barcelona's historic market hall, with produce stalls and long-standing tapas bars under one roof.

A hearty Catalan fisherman's stew of fish, potatoes, and shellfish thickened with an almond-garlic picada

The Catalan meal base: toasted country bread rubbed with tomato and drizzled with olive oil.

Spain's traditional-method sparkling wine origin, ranging from historic mass-market labels to prestigious artisan growers

Catalan wine region blending Mediterranean coastal beauty with sophisticated Grenache and Carignan vintages

Elite estate led by a winemaking visionary, famous for crafting one of the world's most sought-after Priorat reds

Priorat's accessible neighbor, delivering intense, slate-grown Garnacha and Cariñena wines at superior values

Pioneering Priorat estate that established the region as a premier global winemaking destination

A rugged, remote Catalan wine region famous for its intense reds grown on dramatic slate terraces

The hub of Spanish cava production, offering accessible and scenic wine tours near Barcelona

A masterpiece of Modernista architecture featuring extensive underground cellars toured by electric train

Preeminent grower-cava producer whose long-aged, vintage bottles have redefined the global reputation of Spanish sparkling wine

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

Barcelona's Gràcia neighborhood festival in August — streets compete to decorate themselves most elaborately, then party all night.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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