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Museo de Artesania Iberoamericana
Housed in the former Convento de Santo Domingo, this museum explores the cultural relationship between the Canaries and the Americas. Exhibits include musical instruments, ceramics and various artefacts. There is also an excellent gift shop.
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Mesquida Mora
With a range of whites, reds and rosés, and a commitment to sustainable production, this relative newcomer on Mallorcas winemaking scene is worth visiting – it arranges tastings, bike rides and even meals with wines as the centrepiece.
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Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía
Brooding over the riverbed like a giant beetle, its shell shimmering with translucent mosaic tiles – the cause of quite a few problems – this ultramodern arts complex , grafted onto the City of Arts & Sciences, has four auditoriums.
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Colexio de Fonseca
Located south of Catedral de Santiago de Compostela, and in the cafe-lined Praza de Fonseca, the Colexio de Fonseca with a beautiful Renaissance courtyard and exhibition gallery was the original seat of Santiago’s university (founded in 1495).
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Igrexa de San Francisco
Set back from the broad Praza da Ferrería is the 14th-century Igrexa de San Francisco , said to have been founded by St Francis of Assisi when on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. What was the adjacent convent is now the local tax office.
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Iglesia de San Sebastián
The vast church, with its dome of 12 large windows (symbolising the 12 apostles), is considered one of the best examples of Canarian neoclassicism. Construction started in the late 18th century but the church wasnt completed until the 1940s.
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Vara de Rey Monument
This statue depicts the Ibizan General Joachim Vara de Rey, who died in the 1889 Battle of Caney, fought between Spain and the USA over Cuba. Its located on the islands most beautiful boulevard, which is graced with elegant town houses.
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Museu Arqueològic
Closed for renovations at the time of research, with no indication as to when it might reopen. It contains an important collection of artefacts from the Phoenician and Carthaginian periods, plus a few pieces from Roman and Islamic times.
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Mezquita Mayor de Granada
Off Cuesta de las Cabras, the Albayzín’s first new mosque in 500 years, opened in 2003, has been built to serve modern Granada’s growing Muslim population. The public can enter the gardens, but the mosque itself is open only to Muslims.
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Mirador de Morro Velosa
This viewpoint offers mesmerising views across the island’s weird, disconsolate moonscape. You can stop at the bar located here, with its large picture windows and exhibition space for subjects related to the landscape and environment.
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Parque Natural de ses Salines
A nature reserve of marshes, salt pans and pine-cloaked coastal cliffs that southern Ibiza shares with Formentera. Its a safe haven for bird life such as the Audouins gull, the Balearic shearwater and migrating flamingos (August to October).
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Plaza de España
It’s hard to know what to make of this curiously unprepossessing square. The squares centrepiece is a 1927 statue of Cervantes with, at the writer’s feet, a bronze statue of his immortal characters Don Quijote and Sancho Panza. The 1953 Edificio de España (Spain Building) on the no
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Bodegas Gutiérrez Colosía
No bookings needed for English-, Spanish- or German-language tours of this intimate, family-run sherry bodega, right beside the catamaran dock. Visits end with a five-wine tasting, which can include tapas and flamenco on request. Timings vary.
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La Cartuja de Cazalla
This large 15th-century monastery is situated in a beautiful, secluded nook of the Sierra Morena, 4km from Cazalla. It is built on the site of an Islamic mill and mosque (which in turn is said to have been built on a Roman religious site).
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Plaça de la Constitució
The main square, Plaça de la Constitució, is 100m downhill from the train station. Surrounded by bars and restaurants, filled with children playing in the evenings and home to the ajuntament (town hall), this is Sóllers heart and soul.
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Nuestra Señora de Montserrat
The grand church, Nuestra Señora de Montserrat, is on the town square and has some valuable Flemish artwork inside. Named after the patron of Catalunya, this church is evidence of the many Catalans who participated in the island’s conquest.
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Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados
Above the altar is a highly venerated statue of the Virgin, patron of Valencia. If you come after hours or during Mass, peer in through the grilles, worn smooth over the years by thousands of supplicants, on the southern, cathedral side.
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Museo del Tratado del Tordesillas
Dedicated to the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, the informative displays in this museum look at the world as it was before and after the treaty, with some fabulous old maps taking centre stage. Theres also a multilingual video presentation.
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Museu del Calçat
This obscure museum is home to everything from Egyptian sandals to dainty ladies’ shoes of the 18th century. The museum and cobblers’ guild, which has its roots in the city’s medieval past, were moved here shortly after the civil war.
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Muralla Púnica
The Muralla Púnica, built around a section of the old Punic wall, concentrates on the town’s Carthaginian and Roman legacy. It also contains the tumbledown walls of a 16th-century hermitage complete with tombs filled with human bones.
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