Tag: Charming Small Towns
First time in Nerja? The Balcón de Europa, a cave of giant columns and coves below the Maro cliffs
In January 1959, five young men went hunting for bats in a sinkhole above the sea. What they found underground still makes visitors stop...
Things to do in Tossa de Mar, the only walled medieval town on the Catalan coast
In 1934 Marc Chagall spent a summer on this bay and called it his blue paradise. More than ninety years on, the water is...
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...
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...
Valldemossa day trip from Palma - Chopin’s monastery, cobbled lanes and Tramuntana views
In the winter of 1838, a sickly composer rented a monk's cell to escape Paris with the woman he loved. Almost two centuries later,...
First time in Torrevieja? Pink salt lakes, Blue Flag coves and a town built on salt
People call it the Costa del Yorkshire. Stand by the salt mountains at sunset, with flamingos wading in a pink lagoon, and the nickname...