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Casa de Pilatos
The haunting Casa de Pilatos, which is still occupied by the ducal Medinaceli family, is one of the city’s most glorious mansions. It’s a mixture of Mudéjar, Gothic and Renaissance styles, with some beautiful tilework and artesonados (ceilings of interlaced beams with decorative in
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Palacio de la Conquista
On the south side of the Plaza Mayor, carved images of Pizarro and his lover Inés Yupanqui (sister of the Inca emperor Atahualpa) decorate the corner of the 16th-century Palacio de la Conquista. To the right is their daughter Francisca Pizarro Yupanqui with her husband (and uncle),
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Església de Santa Magdalena
The main claim to fame of the baroque Església de Santa Magdalena is as being the resting place of Santa Catalina Thomàs of Valldemossa. Her clothed remains are visible through a glass coffin held in a chapel to the left of the altar and are an object of pilgrimage. It is said that
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Ciudad Romana de Andelos
The Roman town of Andelos is battered, but its remote and peaceful setting gives it a special romance. The town, which reached its peak between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, is divided into three: the main town, a water reservoir about 300m away from the town, and the tumbledown wa
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Plaza de Lavapiés
The triangular Plaza de Lavapiés is one of the few open spaces in Lavapiés and is a magnet for all that’s good (a thriving cultural life) and bad (drugs and a high police presence) about the barrio. It’s been cleaned up a little in recent years and the Teatro Valle-Inclán , on the
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Casa dels Dos Tresors
The ruins of the Roman town of Pollentia lie just outside Alcúdia’s walls (the entrance is on Avinguda dels Prínceps d’Espanya). Founded around 70 BC, it was Rome’s principal city in Mallorca and is the most important archaeological site on the island. It reached its apogee in the
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El Cortijo del Fraile
This abandoned farmstead on a windswept plain 6km northwest of Rodalquilar was the scene of the tragic true-life love-and-revenge story that inspired Federico García Lorca’s best-known play, Blood Wedding . In 1928, in whats known as El Crimen de Níjar (Níjar Crime), a woman due to
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Convento de Santa Teresa
Built in 1636 around the room where the saint was born in 1515, this is the epicentre of the cult surrounding Teresa. There are three attractions in one here: the church, a relics room and a museum. Highlights include the gold-adorned chapel (built over the room where she was born)
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Observatorio del Teide
One of the best places in the northern hemisphere to stargaze is the Observatorio del Teide. Set just off the C-824 highway that runs between La Laguna and the El Portillo visitor centre, scientists from all over the world come to study here and at its sister observatory in La Palm
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Museo del Romanticismo
This intriguing museum is devoted to the Romantic period of the 19th century. It houses a minor treasure trove of mostly 19th-century paintings, furniture, porcelain, books, photos and other bits and bobs from a bygone age and offers an insight into what upper-class houses were lik
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Coves d’Artà
An impressive work of nature, this warren of natural burrows into the coast 1km north of Canyamel. Pass through an unassuming fissure in the rock wall that buffers the coast and youll find yourself in a soaring vestibule, walking along a raised footpath past the Queen of Columns, a
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Museu d’Història de la Immigració de Catalunya
Dedicated to the history of immigration in Catalonia, this small museum contains a display of photos, text (in Catalan) and various documents and objects that recall the history of immigration to Catalonia from the 19th century on. The star attraction is a wagon of the train (parke
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Mercado Atarazanas
North of the citys main artery, the Alameda Principal, you’ll find this striking 19th-century iron-clad building incorporating the original Moorish gate that once connected the city with the port. The magnificent stained-glass window depicts historical highlights of the city. The d
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Monasterio de la Rábida
In the pretty, peaceful village of La Rábida, don’t miss this 14th- and 15th-century Franciscan monastery, visited several times by Columbus before his great voyage of discovery. Here Columbus met Abbot Juan Pérez, who took up his cause and drummed up support for his far-fetched pl
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Castillo de Loarre
This evocative castle broods above the southern plains across which Islamic raiders once rode. Raised in the 11th century by Sancho III of Navarra and Sancho Ramírez of Aragón, its resemblance to a crusader castle has considerable resonance with those times. Although the dungeons a
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Castillo Árabe
Perched on a crag high atop town is Olveras late-12th-century Arabic castle, which later formed part of Nasrid Granadas defensive systems.
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Museu d’Art
Next door to the cathedral, in the 12th- to 16th-century Palau Episcopal, this art museum impresses with the scale and variety of its collection. Around 8500 pieces of art, mostly from this region, make up the collection, which ranges from Romanesque woodcarvings and stained-glass
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Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas
Tucked away up the hill from Calle Mayor, this intimate little church is Madrid’s oldest surviving building of worship; it is believed to have been built on the site of Muslim Mayrit’s second mosque. The most striking feature is the restored 12th-century Mudéjar bell tower, althoug
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Catedral Vieja
The Catedral Nuevas largely Romanesque predecessor, the Catedral Vieja is adorned with an exquisite 15th-century altarpiece , one of the finest outside Italy, with 53 panels depicting scenes from the lives of Christ and Mary, topped by a representation of the Final Judgment. The cl
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Casón del Buen Retiro
One of the few vestiges of the 17th-century Palacio del Buen Retiro, this somewhat austere building overlooking the Parque del Buen Retiro is run as an academic library by the Museo del Prado and, as such, is mostly closed to the general public. The only exception, and it’s an impo
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