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Museos Flotantes
Anchored at the dock are a submarine and an old customs boat, both of which you can clamber aboard to explore. Onshore alongside are various other vessels, and an array of nautical and naval museum pieces. Closed if raining.
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Museo Ruiz de Luna
Within the old city walls is Museo Ruiz de Luna , housing local ceramics dating from the 16th to 20th centuries. To buy contemporary ceramics, check out the factories and shops along the road leading west to the A5 motorway.
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Museo das Mariñas
Just around the corner from the main square, this museum peers into traditional Galician life with exhibits ranging from the mundane (old coffee mugs) to the culturally significant (typical costumes), plus archaeology and art.
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Museo Chinijo
Claiming to be the smallest museum in the world, there are well laid-out exhibits on the geography and history of the archipelago here, as well as panels on the regions ceteceans and the production of salt and aloe in Lanzarote.
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Jardines de Miramar
Overlooking Playa de la Concha and Playa de Ondarreta, the grassy lawns of the Jardines de Miramar slope gently down to the ocean and are a popular place to catch some sun with those who dont like to get sand between their toes.
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Iglesia de San Jorge
Towards the northern end of Calle Colón is this 15th-century Gothic-Mudéjar church where Columbus and his sailors took communion before embarking on their great expedition. Water for their ships came from La Fontanilla well nearby.
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Iglesia de la Magdalena
The southern doorway is considered the citys finest, with its preponderance of floral motifs.
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Casa del Mayorazgo
If the door’s open, pop into this private 18th-century house to find two stunning flower-filled patios and one of just three original towers that kept watch over the city, with panoramic views down to Plaza de España and across town.
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Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía
Anyone remotely interested in photography should visit this excellent centre, which puts on top-class exhibitions of work by international photographers. They vary dramatically in theme but are invariably edgy and thought-provoking.
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Castillo de Belmonte
This is how castles should look, with turrets, largely intact walls and a commanding position over the village. The castle was once home to France’s Empress Eugénie after her husband, Napoleon III, lost the French throne in 1871.
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Biopark
This is a zoo that treats its animals very well with spacious enclosures, conservation and breeding programs, plus educational activities. There is also a bat cave, reptile enclosure, cafes for refreshments and a large gift shop.
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Sagardoetxea
Tour an orchard, taste a tipple of cider and learn all you ever wanted to know (and much you didnt) at this surprisingly informative and high-tech cider museum at the edge of Astigarraga, a short way south of San Sebastián.
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Lezama
A local landmark, this castle-like mansion was originally built in 1902 but was subsequently revamped by Manuel María Smith in 1921. Its central tower is based on the Monterrey Palace in Salamanca. Today its a private event space.
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La Almoina
Beneath the square just to the east of Valencia’s cathedral, the archaeological remains of the kernel of Roman, Visigoth and Islamic Valencia shimmer through a water-covered glass canopy. Guided tours available for a little extra.
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Museu de Cadaqués
Salvador Dalí often features strongly in the temporary exhibitions displayed here, as do his contemporaries, also connected to Cadaqués, such as Picasso. It opens roughly Easter to October, but this depends on the yearly exhibition.
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Miranda des Lledoners
For an exquisite view taking in the terraces, orchards, gardens, cypresses, palms, the occasional ochre house through the mountains and the distant plains leading to Palma, walk down Carrer de Jovellanos to Miranda des Lledoners.
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Passeig de s’Alamera
This graceful boulevard just below Plaça d’Espanya, lined with trees and cafes, is Santa Eulària’s mini-Ramblas. In summer evenings dozens of market stalls add a splash of colour, selling jewellery, sarongs and tie-dye Thai garb.
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Julióbriga
Curiosities near Reinosa include the remains of Cantabria’s most significant Roman town, Julióbriga, at Retortillo, 5km east. The guided visit at Julióbriga includes the Museo Domus, a full-scale recreation of a Roman house.
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Església de Sant Antoni de Viana
Augustinian fathers occupied this site from shortly after the 1229 conquest, but this church was built between 1757 and 1768. The unusual interior is a series of ellipses. It was closed for restoration at the time of research.
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Colegiata del Salvador
Plaza del Salvador, near the top of the Albayzín, is dominated by the Colegiata del Salvador, a 16th-century church on the site of the Albayzín’s former main mosque, the patio of which still survives at the church’s western end.
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