Should you book a guided tour of Palau de la Música Catalana? The stained-glass skylight, the stage muses and how to see a concert
Most concert halls switch off the daylight before the music starts. This one was built to let the sun join the orchestra.The Palau de...
MNAC map and route - Romanesque apses, Gaudí furniture and a rooftop over Barcelona
Some of the paintings inside were peeled off church walls high in the Pyrenees, rolled up and carried down the mountains by mule. A...
Picasso Museum Barcelona in 2 hours - A route from teenage sketches to the Las Meninas series
He arrived as a 13-year-old art student and left as a painter who had found his blue. Almost everything he made in between is...
How to visit Mount Teide - Cable car, summit permit and the hike to Spain’s highest peak
Measured from the seabed, it rises around 7,500 metres. Only two volcanoes on Earth are bigger, and both are in Hawaii.Mount Teide is the...
Dalí Theatre-Museum tickets, opening hours and the Dalí Jewels
A vintage Cadillac where it rains indoors, a living room that turns into a film star's face and a painter buried under the stage....
Royal Palace of La Almudaina tickets and tips - The throne room, a marble lion and the new Queen’s Palace
A thousand years ago an Arab governor ruled the island from these walls. Today the King of Spain hosts state receptions here, and you...