Tag: Charming Small Towns
Santa Cruz de la Palma, La Palma’s Renaissance capital - Wooden balconies, a replica of Columbus’s ship and black-sand beaches
Five centuries ago this harbour was one of the busiest in the Spanish Empire. Today you can walk its main street in twenty minutes...
What to do in Los Gigantes? Sheer sea cliffs, whale-watching cruises and a boat ride to Masca Bay
Forty-five minutes from the airport, the island suddenly ends in a wall of rock twice the height of the Shard.Los Gigantes is a small...
What to do in Besalú? A fortified bridge, a medieval mikveh and Romanesque churches
Cross a crooked stone bridge, pass under its gate tower and the 21st century seems to stay behind on the other bank of the...
Figueres day trip from Barcelona - Dalí’s hometown, Sant Ferran Castle and lunch on the Rambla
Most visitors see one red building crowned with giant eggs, then rush back to the coach. Stay a few hours longer and you'll find...
Serra de Tramuntana highlights - Stone villages, the road to Sa Calobra and the Dry Stone Route
Most people picture this island as one long beach. Its north-west coast is a wall of limestone, terraced by hand over a thousand years.The...
Santa Pola, Spain - Things to do in the Costa Blanca fishing town facing Tabarca Island
Five centuries ago, a stone fortress here watched the horizon for Berber pirates. Today it watches fishing boats bring in red prawns at sunset.Santa...