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Museo Batalla de las Navas de Tolosa
The course of Spanish history was changed 2km west of Santa Elena on 16 July 1212, when Christian armies defeated the Muslim Almohad army in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, which opened the doors of Andalucía to the Reconquista. This museum, a few hundred metres west from exit 2
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Museo de la Legión
This intriguing museum is dedicated to and run by the Spanish Legion, an army unit set up in 1920 that played a pivotal role in Franco’s republican army. Loaded to the gills with memorabilia, weaponry and uniforms, not to mention glory, pomp and circumstance, it is a fascinating gl
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Cueva de los Murciélagos
Carved out of the limestone massif 4km above Zuheros is this extraordinary cave. From the vast hall at the start of the tour, its a 430m loop walk through a series of corridors filled with fantastic rock formations. Traces of Neolithic rock paintings showing abstract figures of goa
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Monasterio de San Isidoro del Campo
At the southern end of Santiponce, this exquisite, two-church former monastery was founded in 1301 by Guzmán El Bueno (hero of the 1294 battle at Tarifa). Over the centuries it hosted a succession of different religious orders, including the hermetic Hieronymite monks who embellish
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Via Sepulcral Romana
Along Carrer de la Canuda, a block east of the top end of La Rambla, is a sunken garden where a series of Roman tombs lies exposed. A smallish display in Spanish and Catalan by the tombs explores burial and funerary rites and customs. A few bits of pottery (including a burial ampho
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Museo Minero
Riotintos mining museum is a figurative goldmine for devotees of industrial archaeology, taking you through the area’s unique history from the megalithic tombs of the 3rd millennium BC to the Roman and British colonial eras, the 1888 año de los tiros (year of the gunshots) upheaval
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Biblioteca Nacional & Museo del Libro
Perhaps the most impressive of the grand edifices erected along the Paseo de los Recoletos in the 19th century, the 1892 Biblioteca Nacional (National Library) dominates the southern end of Plaza de Colón. Downstairs, and entered via a separate entrance, the fascinating and recentl
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Museo de la Guitarra
Its worth establishing two important facts before you enter this absorbing, recently opened interactive museum. First: the word guitar is derived from the Andalucian-Arabic word qitara, hinting at its Spanish roots. Second: all modern acoustic guitars owe a huge debt to Almerían gu
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Cidade da Cultura de Galicia
Much reviled by Galicians as a gigantic waste of public money, work on this vast prestige project on Monte Gaiás, 1.5km southeast of the Old Town, was stopped in 2013 after a decade of delays, rethinks and budget blowouts. Four of the six main buildings are open, but theres little
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Casa del Vino La Baranda
This museum, located in a traditional Canarian country house in El Sauzal, is devoted to wine and its production and also offers wine tasting for a nominal cost. It’s a charming place, with some beautiful views of El Teide on a clear day. There is a well-regarded restaurant and, du
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Ermita de San Saturio
A lovely riverside walk south for 2.3km from the Monasterio de San Juan de Duero will take you past the 13th-century church of the former Knights Templar, the Monasterio de San Polo (not open to the public), and on to the fascinating, baroque Ermita de San Saturio. The hermitage is
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Congreso de los Diputados
Spain’s lower house of parliament was originally a Renaissance building, but it was completely revamped in 1850 and given a facade with a neoclassical portal. The imposing lions watching over the entrance were smelted from cannons used in Spain’s African wars during the mid-19th ce
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Capricho de Gaudí
Antoni Gaudí left few reminders of his genius beyond Catalonia, but of those that he did, the 1885 Gaudí Caprice in Comillas is easily the most flamboyant. The brick building, one of Gaudís earliest works and originally a summer playpad for the Marqués de Comillas sister-in-laws br
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Basílica de San Vicente
This graceful church is a masterpiece of Romanesque simplicity: a series of largely Gothic modifications in sober granite contrasted with the warm sandstone of the Romanesque original. Work started in the 11th century, supposedly on the site where three martyrs – San Vicente and hi
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Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporáneo
Closed for major renovation works at the time of research, this rich collection of modern Spanish art includes mostly paintings and graphic art with a smattering of photography, sculpture and drawings. Highlights include Eduardo Arroyo and Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza. Running thro
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Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo
Santanders extensive art museum offers a large, eclectic collection spanning the 16th to 21st centuries. Much of it is secondary Spanish art, though youll find the odd curio such as Goyas portrait of King Fernando VII, and the contemporary layout of some sections brings out intrigu
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Los Millares
The historical importance of Los Millares, where what was probably Spains first metalworking culture emerged nearly 5000 years ago, is greater than the spectacle of its site today, but history and archaeology fans will enjoy a visit to the site above the Río Andarax, 20km from Alme
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Centro de Interpretación Judería de Sevilla
A reinterpretation of Seville’s weighty Jewish history has been long overdue and what better place to start than in the city’s former Jewish quarter. This newish museum is in an old Sephardic Jewish house in the higgledy-piggledy Santa Cruz quarter, the one-time Jewish neighbourhoo
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Almazara Núñez de Prado
The best reason for coming to Baena is to visit this working olive-oil mill, run by a family who own around 100,000 olive trees. Olives are hand-picked to prevent bruising, then pulped in ancient stone mills. The mill is one of the few in Spain that still use the traditional stone
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Museo del Ferrocarril
You don’t have to be a trainspotter to enjoy this railway museum – you’ll see as many kids as anoraks – but it helps. Housed in the disused 1880s Estación de Delicias south of Lavapiés, this museum has about 30 pieces of rolling stock lined up along the platforms, ranging from the
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