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Plaza de Oriente
A royal palace that once had aspirations to be the Spanish Versailles. Sophisticated cafes watched over by apartments that cost the equivalent of a royal salary. The Teatro Real , Madrid’s opera house and one of Spain’s temples to high culture. Some of the finest sunset views in Ma
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Zoo Aquarium de Madrid
Madrid’s zoo, in the Casa de Campo, is a fairly standard European city zoo and is home to about 3000 animals. Exhibits range from white Siberian tigers to mambas, Atlas lions, zebras, giraffes, rhinoceroses, flamingos, koalas and celebrity pandas. There’s also an aquarium with show
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Barrio de las Letras
The area that unfurls down the hill east of Plaza de Santa Ana is referred to as the Barrio de las Letras (District of Letters), because of the writers who lived here during Spains golden age of the 16th and 17th centuries. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547–1616), the author of Do
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Museo de Cerralbo
Huddled beneath the modern apartment buildings northwest of Plaza de España, this noble old mansion is a reminder of how wealthy madrileños (people from Madrid) once lived. The former home of the 17th Marqués de Cerralbo (1845–1922) – politician, poet and archaeologist – is a study
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Conjunto Monumental de la Cartuja
This historic but offbeat art gallery was once a monastery, then a ceramics factory, but today is home to the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo .Founded in 1399, the Conjunto Monumental de la Cartuja became the favourite sevillano lodging place for Christopher Columbus, who pray
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Dolmens
The Dolmen de Menga and Dolmen de Viera , both dating from around 2500 BC, are 1km from the town centre in a small, wooded park beside the road that leads northeast to the A45. Head down Calle Encarnación from the central Plaza de San Sebastián and follow the signs.A third chamber,
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Mercat de Santa Caterina
Come shopping for your tomatoes at this extraordinary-looking produce market, designed by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue to replace its 19th-century predecessor. Finished in 2005, it is distinguished by its kaleidoscopic and undulating roof, held up above the bustling produ
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Pavelló Mies van der Rohe
The Pavelló Mies van der Rohe is not only a work of breathtaking beauty and simplicity, it is a highly influential building emblematic of the modern movement. The structure has been the subject of many studies and interpretations, and it has inspired several generations of architec
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Cueva de los Letreros
Of several World Heritage–listed cave-painting sites in the area, this Stone Age ceremonial site on a hillside near Vélez Blanco is the star. The reddish drawings, made some time before 5500 BC, show, among other things, animals, a large horned figure dubbed El Hechicero (The Witch
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Antigua Estación de Atocha
In 1992 the northwestern wing of the Antigua Estación de Atocha (old Atocha train station) was given a stunning overhaul. The structure of this grand iron-and-glass relic from the 19th century was preserved, while its interior was artfully converted into a light-filled tropical gar
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Centre d’Estudis de la Batalla de l’Ebre
North of Tortosa lies the town of Gandesa, home to the modern Centre d’Estudis de la Batalla de l’Ebre. This excellent museum presents a balanced account of Spains Civil War and the decisive battle in the Ebro Valley through a host of artefacts, photographs and interactive maps. Re
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Basílica de Sant Francesc
One of Palma’s oldest churches, the Franciscan Basílica de Sant Francesc was begun in 1281 in Gothic style and its baroque facade was completed in 1700. In the splendid Gothic cloister – a two-tiered, trapezoid affair – the elegant columns indicate it was some time in the making. I
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Cueva de la Pileta
Twenty kilometres southwest of Ronda la Vieja are some of Andalucía’s most ancient and fascinating caves: the Cueva de la Pileta . The guided tour, by torchlight, into the dark belly of the cave reveals Stone Age paintings of horses, goats and fish from 20,000 to 25,000 years ago.
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Patio de los Arrayanes
This fabulous palacio was originally built by Emir Yusuf I, and thereafter served as the private residence for the ruler. Its built around the Patio de los Arrayanes (Patio of the Myrtles), and named after the hedges surrounding its rectangular pool and fountains. The rooms along t
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CosmoCaixa
Kids (and kids at heart) are fascinated by displays here and this science museum has become one of the city’s most popular attractions. The single greatest highlight is the recreation over 1 sq km of a chunk of flooded Amazon rainforest (Bosc Inundat). More than 100 species of Amaz
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Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu
Behind La Boqueria stands the Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu, which was once the city’s main hospital. Begun in 1401, it functioned until the 1930s, and was considered one of the best in Europe in its medieval heyday – it is famously the place where Antoni Gaudí died in 1926. Toda
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Plaza de la Puerta del Sol
The official centre point of Spain is a gracious, crowded hemisphere of elegant facades. It is, above all, a crossroads: people here are forever heading somewhere else, on foot, by metro (three lines cross here) or by bus (many lines terminate and start nearby). Hard as it is to be
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Carrer de Montcada
An early example of town planning, this medieval high street was driven towards the sea from the road that in the 12th century led northeast from the city walls. It was the citys most coveted address for the merchant classes. The bulk of the great mansions that remain today mostly
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Palacio de Villardompardo
This Renaissance palace houses three excellent attractions: the beautiful 11th-century Baños Árabes , one of the largest surviving Islamic-era bathhouses in Spain; the Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares , devoted to the rural life of preindustrial Jaén province; and the Museo In
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Plaça d’Espanya & Around
The whirling roundabout of Plaça d’Espanya, distinguished by its so-called Venetian towers (because they are vaguely reminiscent of the belltower in Venice’s St Mark’s Square), was built for the 1929 World Exhibition and is the junction of several major thoroughfares. It is flanked
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