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Casa de los Balcones
The setting is sublime, an ornate mansion dating from 1632 with rooms set around a central patio complete with historic photos and memorabilia. One room is devoted to lacework. Bypass the Chinese imports to admire the fine local needlework; there may well be a demonstration taking
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Catedral de San Pedro
Jaca’s 11th-century cathedral is a formidable building, its imposing facade typical of the sturdy stone architecture of northern Aragón. It was once more gracefully French Romanesque in style, but a Gothic overhaul in the 16th century bequeathed a hybrid look. The interior retains
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Plaza del Coso
Get your camera lens poised for one of Spains most stunningly picturesque plazas. This rectangular 15th-century square was one of the first to be laid out for this purpose and is considered one of the most important forerunners to the plazas mayores across Spain. Its still used for
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Ramparts
Encircling Dalt Vila, Ibizas colossal protective walls reach over 25m in height and include seven bastions. Evocatively floodlit at night, these fortifications were constructed to safeguard Ibizas residents against the threat of pirate attack. You can walk the entire perimeter of t
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Basílica Menor de Santa María de la Asunción
This Gothic-cum-baroque creation is one of Andalucías more beautiful and intriguing small churches, built over several centuries on the site of a mosque. Check out the ornate gold-leaf altarpiece (a miniature of the one in Seville cathedral) carved between 1580 and 1608, a striking
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Museo de la Piratería
This modest yet fascinating museum is located in the imposing 16th-century Castillo de Santa Bárbara . This is the oldest castle in the Canaries and really looks the part, perched up on Guanapay peak with sweeping views across the plains. The exhibits detail the numerous attacks La
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Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo
Converted in 1994 by the Fundación César Manrique into a sleek, contemporary art museum and restaurant, the Castillo de San José was built in the 18th century to deal with pirates and provide unemployed locals with a public-works job scheme. Today it houses one of the most importan
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Sala Picasso & Sala Miró
Few train stations have such a rich artistic legacy. In two rooms at street level in Sóllers station, there are two intriguing art exhibitions, the Sala Picasso and Sala Miró. The former has more than 50 ceramics by Picasso from 1948 to 1971, many bearing the artists trademark subj
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Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias
The aesthetically stunning City of Arts & Sciences occupies a massive 350,000-sq-metre swathe of the old Turia riverbed. It’s mostly the work of world-famous, locally born architect Santiago Calatrava. Hes a controversial figure for many Valencians, who complain about the expen
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Cap de Sant Sebastià
This magical spot up east of town offers fabulous views in both directions and out to sea. Theres a lighthouse here, as well as a 15th-century watch tower and chapel now incorporated into romantic Hotel El Far. Youll also find the ruins of a pre-Roman Iberian settlement with multil
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Centro de Arte Canario
This art museum is an island highlight, with its sculpture garden and galleries containing works by such Canarian artists as César Manrique, Ruben Dario and Alberto Agullo. Two galleries are devoted to the national award-winning watercolourist Alberto Manrique (no relation to César
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Museo Etnográfico
Housed in a handsome historical building, this two-storey museum covers the islands natural resources and ecosystems in exhibits that include fishing, forestry, agriculture and farming. There are also sections on crafts, like pottery and basketry and wine-making. Dont miss the info
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Castillo de Feria
Built from a preexisting Moorish fort by the powerful local Feria house, Ferias impeccably revamped 15th-century castle enjoys spectacular panoramas in every direction from its hilltop perch; climb up onto the roof of the Torre del Homenaje for the full view. Inside, spread over th
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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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Museo de la Seda
Learn the secrets of the caterpillars that spin dresses fit for a marriage. The silk produced here is made according to traditions that have barely changed since the industry arrived on the island in the 16th century. There is an upstairs museum with some magnificent silk garments
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Bodegas Osborne
Creator of the legendary black bull logo still exhibited on life-sized billboards all over Spain (now without the name), Osborne, the best known of El Puerto’s sherry wineries, was set up – with no intentional irony – by an Englishman, Thomas Osborne Mann, in 1772. It remains one o
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Museo de Cáceres
The excellent Museo de Cáceres, spread across 12 buildings in a 16th-century mansion built over an evocative 12th-century aljibe (cistern), is the only surviving element of Cáceres’ Moorish castle. The impressive archaeological section includes an elegant stone boar dated to the 4t
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Plaza de San Pablo
This open square is dominated by the exquisite Iglesia de San Pablo . The churchs main facade is an extravagant masterpiece of Isabelline Gothic, with every square centimetre finely worked, carved and twisted to produce a unique fabric in stone. Also fronting the square is the Pala
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Parc Natural S’Albufera d’es Grau
Home to many species of wetland birds, this lagoon and its shores form the ‘nucleus zone’ of Menorca’s Unesco Biosphere Reserve, a natural park protected from development. Its a safe haven for birdlife (kites and fish eagles for instance) and species like Lilfords wall lizards and
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Castillo de la Yedra
Cazorlas dramatic Castle of the Ivy, a 700m walk above Plaza de Santa María, has great views and is home to the interesting Museum of the Upper Guadalquivir, whose diverse collections include traditional agricultural tools and kitchen utensils, religious art, models of an old olive
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