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Museu de l’Empordà
Across four floors, this local museum time travels from ancient amphorae to 7th-century sculptures to rotating installations of contemporary art. The regions culture and history are presented in a rather fragmented way, but its an enjoyable romp. The 17th-century religious art is e
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Convento de Santa Clara
Of all the convents in La Laguna, this is the most interesting, renowned for its beautiful lattice-work wooden balcony and cloister. The museum covers nine rooms and contains some of the most precious artworks and artefacts from the convent collection, including a magnificent 18th-
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Centro de Interpretación General de la Vía de la Plata
During your time in Extremadura youll inevitably stumble across the famous Vía de la Plata , a Roman-era trading route and pilgrimage path stretching from Seville to Gijón (on Spains north coast) via Mérida and Astorga. Today, its traversed by the A66 and N630 roads. This simple Sp
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Antigua Universidad
Baeza’s historic university was founded in 1538. It became a fount of progressive ideas that generally conflicted with Baeza’s conservative dominant families, often causing scuffles between the highbrows and the well-heeled. Since 1875 the building has housed a secondary school. Th
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Cala Llombards
A petite cove defined by rough rock walls topped with pines, Cala Llombards is a truly beautiful place. A beach-hut bar and sun loungers shaded by palm-leaf umbrellas constitute the extent of human intervention. The view is soul-satisfying – turquoise waters, a sandy beach and the
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Bodegas Castell Miquel
About 1.5km west of Lloseta on the road to Alaró is the German-owned and prize-winning Bodegas Castell Miquel. You cant miss the place – it looks like a little white castle. Besides wines like the Stairway to Heaven rosé and Pearls of an Angel cava, the German pharmaceutical profes
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Centre dInformació Serra de Tramuntana
Opposite the monastery complex, this interpretation centre has audiovisual displays and a small museum providing background on the Serra de Tramuntana. Here you can brush up on regional flora, fauna and bird species such as the Eleonoras falcon and Balearic shearwater, and learn ab
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Sociedad General de Autores y Editores
This swirling, melting wedding cake of a building is as close as Madrid comes to the work of Antoni Gaudí, which so illuminates Barcelona. It’s a joyously self-indulgent ode to modernismo and is virtually one of a kind in Madrid. Casual visitors are actively discouraged, although w
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Museu del Cinema
There is much more to this museum than the silver screen. Displays examine the reasons why humanity longs to indulge its imagination, probing the origins of visual storytelling, such as Chinese and Indian shadow puppets. It’s a whistle-stop tour taking in the invention of the camer
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Museu dArt Contemporani (MACE)
Housed within an 18th-century powder store and armoury, this museum is a showcase for contemporary art, most of it with an Ibizan connection. The permanent collection contains work by Ibizan artists Marí Ribas Portmany and Tur Costa, and the abstract art of Ibiza visitors Will Fabe
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Museo del Greco
In the early 20th century, an aristocrat bought what he thought was El Grecos house and did a stunning job of returning it to period style. He was wrong, but the museum remains worthwhile. As well as the house itself, with its lovely patio and informative details on the painters li
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Museo del Vino El Grifo
This is the oldest winery in the Canary Islands, founded in 1775. Theres an interesting museum showcasing old winemaking equipment. Most is from the 19th and 20th centuries, though there are some older pieces. Probably of greater interest is the tasting room where you can sample a
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Catedral de María Inmaculada
Vitoria’s cathedral might look old, but in fact it only dates from the early 1970s. There are some impressive, fairly adventurous stained-glass windows and a neck-stretchingly high nave. More interesting, though, is the attached Museo Diocesano de Arte Sacro , which contains some e
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Dalt Vila
Its floodlit bastions visible from across southern Ibiza, Dalt Vila is a fortified hilltop first settled by the Phoenicans and later occupied by a roster of subsequent civilisations. Tranquil and atmospheric, many of its lanes are accessible only by foot. Its mostly a residential a
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Convento de las Trinitarias
When Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra died in 1616, his body was interred at the Convento de las Trinitarias, which is marked by a plaque. For centuries, no-one really knew exactly where Cervantes body lay. That changed in 2015 when forensic archaeologists finally found his remains. St
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Centro de la Interpretación Mudéjar
The Mudéjar architectural style, which long defined Seville, has a shrine to its importance encased within one of Sevilles textbook-Mudéjar buildings, the Palacio de Los Marqueses de la Algaba . The small on-site museum with collected Mudéjar relics from the 12th to 20th centuries
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Cala Llamp
What a difference a bay makes. Located 2km south of Port dAndratx, Cala Llamp is where locals gravitate for silence and sparkling, bottle-green water. Theres no sand but the scenery is quite special, with rugged, pine-cloaked cliffs rearing like an amphitheatre around the crescent-
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Salinas de Cabo de Gata
Southeast of drab San Miguel de Cabo de Gata village, some of Spains last surviving sea-salt-extraction lagoons draw flocks of migrating flamingos and other water birds from spring to autumn: by late August there can be 1000 flamingos here. Birdwatching hides are placed at a few st
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Museo Sefardi
Since being expelled en masse in 1492, there are very few Sephardi Jews left living in Granada today. But this didnt stop one enterprising couple from opening up a museum to their memory in 2013, the year that the Spanish government began offering Spanish citizenship to any Sephard
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Santuario de Loyola
Just outside Azpeitia (12km south of the A8 motorway along the GI631) lies the portentous Santuario de Loyola , dedicated to St Ignatius, the founder of the Jesuit order. The dark, sooty basilica, laden with grey marble and plenty of carved ornamentation, is monstrous rather than a
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