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Museo de Santa Cruz
The 16th-century Museo de Santa Cruz is a beguiling combination of Gothic and plateresque styles. The cloisters and carved wooden ceilings are superb, as is the collection of Spanish ceramics. Also upstairs is an atmospheric cruciform gallery that contains an archaeological display
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Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno
The city’s main modern art museum is housed in a tastefully rejuvenated 18th-century building. There are no permanent collections but the galleries, flooded with natural light, host some superb temporary exhibitions. There are two satellite galleries also featuring rotating exhibit
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Mexuar
This 14th-century room is the entrance to the palace. It was used as a ministerial council chamber and as an antechamber for those awaiting audiences with the emir. The public would generally not have been allowed beyond here. The chamber has been much altered; it was converted int
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Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
The first contemporary art museum to open in Spain, dating from 1953, this well-displayed collection includes such outstanding foreign, Spanish and Canarian artists as Will Faber, Óscar Domínguez and César Manrique. The setting, in the historic former customs house, is almost as in
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Iglesia de Santa María de Lebeña
A kilometre east of the N621 stands the fascinating little Iglesia de Santa María de Lebeña , built in the 9th or 10th century. The horseshoe arches in the church are a telltale sign of its Mozarabic style – rarely seen this far north in Spain. The floral motifs on the columns are
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Círculo de Bellas Artes
Casal Balaguer – with the grand if unevenly cobbled courtyard, graced by four thin, leaning palms – is home to a faded but weighty art institution, the Círculo de Bellas Artes. The site was closed for much-needed major renovations at the time of our visit, and is set to reopen and
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Patio del Cuarto Dorado
You pass into this courtyard from the Mexuar, with a small fountain and the Cuarto Dorado (Golden Room) on the left. This patio was where the emirs would give audiences to their subjects. The Cuarto Dorado takes its name from its beautiful wooden ceiling, which was gilded and redec
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Puig de Missa
This hilltop was a perfect retreat for the towns citizens during the centuries when Ibiza was plagued by pirate attacks. Crowning its 52m summit is a remarkable fortress-church, complete with its very own defence tower. There are a couple of interesting museums to visit too. You ca
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Placeta Joe Strummer
The premature death of Joe Strummer of The Clash awakened a new awareness about the cultural significance of the band, especially in Granada where Strummer was a regular visitor in the 1980s and 90s. In May 2013, Placeta Joe Strummer was inaugurated in the Realejo quarter by his wi
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Fundació Fran Daurel
The Fundació Fran Daurel (in Poble Espanyol) is an eclectic collection of 300 works of art including sculptures, prints, ceramics and tapestries by modern artists ranging from Picasso and Miró to more contemporary figures, including Miquel Barceló. The foundation also has a sculptu
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Església de Sant Pere de les Puelles
It was around this church that settlement began in La Ribera. In 985 a Muslim raiding force under Al-Mansur attacked Barcelona and largely destroyed what was then a convent, killing or capturing the nuns. It was rebuilt in early medieval times, but not a great deal remains. The chu
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Casal Solleric
This grand 18th-century baroque mansion with the typical Palma courtyard of graceful broad arches and uneven stone paving is at once a cultural centre with temporary exhibitions, bookshop and tourist information office. Displays are usually free and found over a couple of floors. T
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Arc de Triomf
Northwest of the Parc de la Ciutadella, Passeig de Lluís Companys is capped by the Modernista Arc de Triomf , designed by Josep Vilaseca as the principal exhibition entrance, with unusual, Islamic-style brickwork. Josep Llimona did the main reliefs. Just what the triumph was eludes
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Santuario de Arantzazu
About 10km south of Oñati, the Santuario de Arantzazu is a busy Christian pilgrimage site thats a fabulous conflation of piety and avant-garde art. The sanctuary was built in the 1960s on the site where, in 1468, a shepherd found a statue of the Virgin under a hawthorn bush. The sa
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Refugios de la Guerra Civil
During the civil war, Almería was the Republicans’ last holdout province in Andalucía, and was repeatedly and mercilessly bombed. The attacks prompted a group of engineers to design and build the Refugios, a 4.5km-long network of concrete shelters under the city. Visits – by 1¼-hou
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Huerta de San Vicente
This house where Federico García Lorca spent summers and wrote some of his best-known works is only 1.5km south of the city centre, but still retains the evocative aura of an early-20th-century country villa. Today the modern but handsome Parque Federico García Lorca separates it f
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Carranque
Since 1983 archaeologists at Carranque have been excavating what they believe to be the foundations of a late-4th-century Roman basilica , which would make it the oldest in Spain. The skeletal remains of Roman villas and temple-fountains are among the sites other highlights, while
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Convento de San Benito
This grand Renaissance convent was built in the 16th century to house the Orden de Alcántara, an order of Reconquista knights – part monks, part soldiers – who ruled much of western Extremadura as a kind of private fiefdom; it was abandoned in the 19th century. Now restored, the hi
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Museo Taurino de Bilbao
Although Bilbao isn’t a bullfighting city in the manner of the towns of Andalucía, the audiences here are considered by matadors to be among the most discerning and hardest to please. The city’s bullring, an ugly 1960s looking lump of concrete that brings to mind the industrial Bil
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Real Convento de Santa Clara
Still home to a few Franciscan nuns living in near-total isolation, this Mudéjar-style convent dates from 1340 when it was begun as a palace for Alfonso XI. In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed here. A 50-minute guided tour (in Spanish) takes in a wonderful Mudéjar patio l
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