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Parque Natural de Corralejo
This nature park stretches along the east coast for about 10km from Corralejo. It can get breezy here, hence its popularity with windsurfers and kiteboarders. The locals have applied their ingenuity to the sand-sticking-to-the-sunscreen problem by erecting little fortresses of loos
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Casa Santa María
This place is unabashedly tourist-orientated but still worth visiting. The German owner, Reiner Loos, bought the original rambling building in the 1990s and spent several years collecting traditional handicrafts and ancient agricultural tools, as well as lushly landscaping the gard
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Fundació Suñol
Rotating exhibitions of portions of this private collection of mostly 20th-century art (some 1200 works in total) offer anything from Man Ray’s photography to sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. Over two floors, you are most likely to run into Spanish artists, anyone from Picasso to
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Pavellons Güell
A short stroll from the Jardins del Palau de Pedralbes are the stables and porter’s lodge designed by Gaudí for the Finca Güell, as the Güell estate here was called. Known also as the Pavellons Güell, they were built in the mid-1880s, when Gaudí was strongly impressed by Islamic ar
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Parc del Centre del Poblenou
Barcelona is sprinkled with parks whose principal element is cement, and Jean Nouvels Parc del Centre del Poblenou, with its stylised metal seats and items of statuary, is no exception. However, the parks Gaudí-inspired cement walls are increasingly covered by sprawling bougainvill
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Faro de Madrid
After a decade closed, this supremely ugly Madrid landmark just in front of the Museo de América reopened in April 2015. It looks out over the northern corner of the Parque del Oeste and has sweeping views of western Madrid. It was built in 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary
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Convent de Santa Clara
This church is a gloomy baroque affair. It was closed for renovation when we were here, but, in any event, locals prefer to pop into the adjacent building, because the handful of cloistered nuns maintain a centuries-old tradition of baking sweets for sale. You will see a torno, a k
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Museu Blau
Set inside the futuristic Edifici Fòrum, the Museu Blau takes visitors on a journey all across the natural world. Multimedia and interactive exhibits explore topics like the history of evolution, earths formation and the great scientists who have helped shaped human knowledge. Ther
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Basilica de Begoña
This 16th-century basilica towers over the Casco Viejo from atop a nearby hill. Its mainly Gothic in look, although Renaissance touches, such as the arched main entrance, crept in during its century-long construction. The austere vaulted interior is brightened by a gold altarpiece
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Casa de Correos
The main building on the Plaza de la Puerta del Sol houses the regional government of the Comunidad de Madrid. The Casa de Correos, as it is called, was built as the city’s main post office in 1768. The clock was added in 1856 and on New Year’s Eve people throng the square to wait
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Baños del Alcázar Califal
The bathhouse of the 10th-century caliphs, part of the Moorish Alcázar complex that was later replaced by the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos , is the most impressive of the few Arab bathhouses that still survive from the 600 that Córdoba boasted by the early 11th century. With the
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Museu i Centre d’Estudis de l’Esport Dr Melcior Colet
Puig i Cadafalch’s Casa Company (1911) looks like an odd Tyrolean country house and is marvellously out of place. A collection of photos, documents and other sports memorabilia stretches over two floors – from an incongruous 1930s pair of skis and boots to the skull-decorated swimm
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Hospital de Santiago
Andrés de Vandelvira’s last architectural project, completed in 1575, has been dubbed the Escorial of Andalucía in reference to the famous monastery outside Madrid, built in a similarly grand, sober late-Renaissance style. The finely proportioned building, which stands outside the
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Monte Igueldo
The views from the summit of Monte Igueldo, just west of town, will make you feel like a circling hawk staring down over the vast panorama of the Bahía de la Concha and the surrounding coastline and mountains. The best way to get there is via the old-world funicular railway to the
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Faro de Cabo de Gata
At the southwest point of the promontory, this lighthouse overlooks the jagged volcanic reefs of the Arrecife de las Sirenas (Reef of the Mermaids), named after the monk seals that used to lounge here. The view into the water is fantastically clear. A side road runs 3km up to the T
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Sant Cugat del Vallès
Marauding Muslims razed the one-time Roman encampment–turned–Visigothic monastery of Sant Cugat del Vallès to the ground in the 8th century. What you see today is a combination of Romanesque and Gothic buildings. The lower floor of the cloister is a fine demonstration of Romanesque
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Sant Climent de Taüll
At the entrance to Taüll, this church is a gem not only for its elegant, simple lines and its slender six-storey belltower, but also for the art that once graced its interior. The central apse contains a copy of a famous 1123 mural that now resides in Barcelona’s Museu Nacional d’A
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La Granja
This magnificent possessió (rural estate) has been turned into something of a kitsch Mallorca-land exhibit, with folks in traditional dress. The grand mansion is, however, well worth the visit, as are its extensive gardens. Some elements of the property date to the 10th century. Yo
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Colegiata de Santa Juliana
A stroll along Santillanas cobbled main street, past solemn nobles houses from the 15th to 18th centuries, leads you to this lovely 12th-century Romanesque ex-monastery. The big drawcard is the cloister, a formidable storehouse of Romanesque handiwork, with the capitals of its colu
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Fòrum de la Colònia
For a time-hopping view of Roman archways framing modern tower blocks, visit Tarragonas main provincial forum, which once occupied most of what is now the old town. Youll see the foundations of former tabernae (shops) scattered around the curia , the municipal councils meeting plac
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