Tag: Beaches
Puerto del Rosario - Is Fuerteventura’s capital worth a visit?
Most holidaymakers only ever see this town through the window of an airport transfer coach. Give it a slow morning instead, and you may...
Altea, Spain - Things to do in the blue-domed artists’ village of the Costa Blanca
Look closely at the tiles on the church dome and you'll spot small dragons curling through the blue and white. Most people photograph it...
A weekend in Valencia - Paella, Gothic lanes and a riverbed turned park
In 1957 a flood swept through the city and changed the river's course for good. The water was diverted, and the empty bed became...
From Mijas Pueblo to La Cala - Whitewashed lanes, Picasso ceramics and a seaside boardwalk
What do an oval bullring, a chapel cut into a cliff and a ballerina carved from a toothpick have in common? They all sit...
Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife - Old town, Manrique’s sea pools and the island’s greenest coast
Some 150 years ago, British doctors sent their patients here for the sea air and the mild winters. Today the same Atlantic breeze cools...
Tarragona, Spain’s Roman city by the sea - Tarraco, the Part Alta and Costa Daurada beaches
Two thousand years ago, chariots thundered round a track here in front of 30,000 roaring spectators. Today the same vaults hold up wine bars,...