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Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor
This 13th-century church is our favourite church in Trujillo. It has a mainly Gothic nave and a Romanesque tower that you can ascend for fabulous views to all four corners of the compass. The churchs magnificent altarpiece includes 25 brilliantly coloured 15th-century paintings in
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Observatori Fabra
Inaugurated in 1904, this Modernista observatory is still a functioning scientific foundation. It can be visited on certain evenings to allow people to observe the stars through its grand old telescope. Visits, generally in Catalan or Spanish (Castilian) have to be booked. From mid
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Casona de Tudanca
The CA281 south from Puentenansa follows the Río Nansa upstream. Along the way, a short detour east leads to the attractive hamlet of Tudanca , dominated by the Casona de Tudanca , a white, 18th-century rural mansion. Guided visits last 45 minutes. The house was built by an indiano
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Casa de los Lujanes
On the opposite side of the square from the Casa de la Villa, the 15th-century Casa de los Lujanes is Gothic in conception with a clear Mudéjar (a Moorish architectural style) influence. The brickwork tower was ‘home’ to the imprisoned French monarch François I and his sons after t
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Casa Museo César Manrique
This palm-fringed property was the final home of the islands favourite son and has been opened as a museum-cum-shrine. The house is frozen in time, complete with Manriques clothes in the closet and personal art collection adorning the walls. The decor is fairly modest when compared
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Dalt Murada & Parc de la Mar
Most of Palmas defensive walls were destroyed in the late 19th century to allow easier expansion of the city. Only a section of the Renaissance sea wall, the Dalt Murada (begun in 1562, finished in 1801), remains impressively intact. In 1984 the Parc de la Mar (with its artificial
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Monasterio de San Jerónimo
Another of Granadas stunning Catholic buildings is a little out of the centre. At the 16th-century Monasterio de San Jerónimo, where nuns still sing vespers, every surface of the church has been painted – the stained glass literally pales in comparison. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdob
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Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija
This 16th-century mansion, a block east of Calle Sierpes, has a rich collection of art and artisanry and a beautiful Renaissance-Mudéjar courtyard. The late Countess of Lebrija was an archaeologist, and she remodelled the house in 1914, filling many of the rooms with treasures from
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Las Cuevas del Conventico
These extensive and well-restored caves were used as a refuge during sieges, and pop out at a small beach below the cliffs. The Calle de la Concepción continues up to the baroque Iglesia de la Purísima Concepción and, just below it, the entrance to Las Cuevas del Conventico. A shor
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Museu del Joguet
This museum has more than 3500 toys from throughout the ages – from the earliest board games involving coloured stones to ball-in-a-cup to intricate dolls’ houses to 1920s dolls with baleful stares that may haunt your dreams to Catalonia- and Valencia-made religious processions of
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Es Puig
From Es Puig , the hill at the heart of Deià, you peer across the rooftops of the higgledy-piggledy village and take in the full sweep of the valley to the glinting Mediterranean beyond. At the top is the modest parish church, the Església de Sant Joan Baptista (whose Museu Parroqu
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Castillo de la Luna
Looming large above the small town of Albuquerque, 38km north of Badajoz, is the intact Castillo de la Luna. The centrepiece of a complex frontier defence system of forts, the castle was built on the site of its Muslim predecessor in the 13th century and subsequently expanded. From
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Casa de Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega may be little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, but he was one of the greatest playwrights ever to write in Spanish, not to mention one of Madrid’s favourite and most colourful literary sons. The house, which was restored in the 1950s, is filled with memorabili
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Col·lecció de Carrosses Fúnebres
If late-18th-century to mid-20th-century hearses (complete with period-dressed dummies) are your thing, then this collection, set at the entrance to the Cementiri del Sud-Oest, is probably the city’s weirdest sight, a place to contemplate the pomp and circumstance of people’s last
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Casa Museo Unamuno
This small museum honours the philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, who stayed here in 1924 after being exiled from Spain. His crime was criticising the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, both verbally and in writing. He later escaped to France before returning to his position as lecturer a
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Casa Llotja de Mar
The centrepiece of the city’s medieval stock exchange (more affectionately known as La Llotja) is the fine Gothic Saló de Contractacions (Transaction Hall), built in the 14th century. Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró attended the art school that was housed in the Saló dels Cònsols from
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Museo Can Morey de Santmartí
A grand town mansion set around an inner courtyard was revamped and reopened as this museum in 2012. A dream come true for German art dealer Wolfgang Hörnke, the museum is an ode to the wonderfully weird world of Catalan surrealist artist Salvador Dalí (1904–89). Some 226 original
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Mirador de Colom
High above the swirl of traffic on the roundabout below, Columbus keeps permanent watch, pointing vaguely out to the Mediterranean. Built for the Universal Exhibition in 1888, the monument allows you to zip up 60m in the lift for bird’s-eye views back up La Rambla and across the po
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Museu del Futbol Club Barcelona
One of Barcelonas most visited museums is the Museu del Futbol Club Barcelona , next to the clubs giant Camp Nou stadium. The museum, renovated in 2010, provides a high-tech view into the club, with massive touch screens allowing visitors to explore arcane aspects of the legendary
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Casa de l’Ardiaca
Across the lane from Capella de Santa Llúciainto is the 16th-century Casa de l’Ardiaca, which houses the city’s archives. Stroll around the supremely serene courtyard, cooled by trees and a fountain; it was renovated by Lluis Domènech i Montaner in 1902, when the building was owned
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