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Risco Belle Aquatic Gardens
This is not just any old garden; step through the entrance and you are met by a sweeping lawn punctuated with tables and chairs, citrus trees, and tropical plants, like birds of paradise and poinsettias. In the historic main house, a cafe serves drinks and snacks. For a small admis
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Museo Diocesano
The Palacio Episcopal also houses the Museo Diocesano, which has a collection of religious art. The best of this art is some outstanding medieval woodcarving, including the 13th-century Virgen de las Huertas .
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Ermita de Santa Magdalena
For extraordinary views, make the pilgrimage to this hermitage with 13th-century origins, which sits astride the Puig de Santa Magdalena (307m). From the little chapel, your gaze will take in the full sweep of the plains to the Serra de Tramuntana and the Alcúdia and Pollença bays.
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Catedral de Tarragona
Sitting grandly atop town, Tarragona’s cathedral has both Romanesque and Gothic features, as typified by the main facade. The cloister has Gothic vaulting and Romanesque carved capitals, one of which shows rats conducting a cat’s funeral…until the cat comes back to life! It’s a les
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Palacio de los Golfines de Abajo
The sumptuous home of Cáceres prominent Golfín family has been beautifully restored. Built piecemeal between the 14th and 20th centuries, its crammed with historical treasures: original 17th-century tapestries and armoury murals, a 19th-century bust of Alfonso XII, a signed 1485 tr
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Jardín Botánico
Established in 1788, this magnificent botanical garden has thousands of plant varieties from all over the world and is a delightful place in which to while away an afternoon smelling the roses. As well as the major collections of tropical and subtropical plants, there is a wide var
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Centre Pompidou Málaga
Opened in 2015 in the port, this offshoot of the Paris Pompidou Centre is housed in a low-slung modern building crowned by a playful multicoloured cube. The permanent exhibition includes the extraordinary Ghost by Kader Attia depicting rows of Muslim women bowed in prayer created f
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Castillo de Segura
This lofty castle dates from Moorish times but was rebuilt after the Christian conquest in the 13th century. Abandoned in the 17th century, it was restored in the 1960s and has now become a territory of the frontier interpretation centre. The ticket office is also Seguras tourist i
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Fundación Amantes
The somewhat curious Mausoleo de los Amantes (Mausoleum of the Lovers) pulls out the stops on the citys famous legend of Isabel and Juan Diego. Here they lie in modern alabaster tombs, sculpted by Juan de Ávalos, with their heads tilted endearingly towards each other. Around this c
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Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos
Built under Castilian rule in the 13th and 14th centuries on the remains of a Moorish predecessor, this fort-cum-palace hosted both Fernando and Isabel, who made their first acquaintance with Columbus here in 1486. One hall displays some remarkable Roman mosaics, dug up from the Pl
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Museo Picasso Málaga
The Museo Picasso has an enviable collection of 204 works, 155 donated and 49 loaned to the museum by Christine Ruiz-Picasso (wife of Paul, Picasso’s eldest son) and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso (his grandson), and includes some wonderful paintings of the family, including the heartfelt Pa
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Oleícola San Francisco
These fascinating tours of a working oil mill near Baeza will teach you all you could want to know about the process of turning olives into oil, how the best oil is made and what distinguishes extra virgin from the rest. At the end you get to taste a few varieties, and youll probab
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Catedral de Cádiz
Cádiz beautiful yellow-domed cathedral is an impressively proportioned baroque-neoclassical construction, best appreciated from seafront Campo del Sur in the evening sun. Though commissioned in 1716, the project wasnt finished until 1838, by which time neoclassical elements (the do
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Museo del Queso Majorero
This new museum is one of the islands best, with lots of interactive displays including a virtual milking activity! Kids will enjoy all the touch-button exhibits with information on the islands flora and fauna, while adults can get an education on Majorero cheese production, plus t
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Auditorio de Tenerife
This magnificent, soaring white wave of an auditorium was designed by the internationally renowned Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and possesses a Sydney Opera House presence, as well as superb acoustics. Guided multilingual tours (reserved in advance via the website) will tak
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Necrópolis Romana
On the southwestern edge of Carmona lie the remains of a Roman city of the dead. A dozen or more family tombs, some elaborate and many-chambered, were hewn into the rock here in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. Most of the inhabitants were cremated, and in the tombs are wall niches fo
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Panteón Real
Attached to the Real Basílica de San Isidoro, Panteón Real houses the remaining sarcophagi, which rest with quiet dignity beneath a canopy of some of the finest Romanesque frescoes in Spain. Motif after colourful motif of biblical scenes drench the vaults and arches of this extraor
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Museo de Arte Abstracto Español
This impressive contemporary art museum is one of several spaces in Cuenca devoted to modern art and sculpture, its galleries memorably occupying one of the casas colgadas . Begun as an attempt by Fernando Zóbel to unite the works of his fellow artists from the so-called Abstract G
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Sinagoga del Agua
The medieval Sinagoga del Agua was discovered in 2006 by a refreshingly ethical property developer who intended to build apartments here, only to discover that every swing of the pickaxe revealed some tantalising piece of an archaeological puzzle. The result is this sensitive re-cr
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Museu Marítim
These mighty Gothic shipyards shelter the Museu Marítim, a remarkable relic from Barcelonas days as the seat of a seafaring empire. Highlights include a full-sized replica (made in the 1970s) of Don Juan of Austria’s 16th-century flagship, fishing vessels, antique navigation charts
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