Tag: Day Trips
Why visit Lloret de Mar? Clifftop gardens, quiet coves and a coastal path to Tossa
Its reputation usually arrives before you do. Then you find Renaissance gardens on the cliffs, a castle above the waves and a cove that...
Visiting Chichén Itzá - El Castillo, the Sacred Cenote and how to beat the tour buses
Ninety-one steps on each of the four sides, plus one platform at the top. Add them up and you get the number of days...
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...
A weekend in Girona - Cathedral steps, the old Jewish quarter and a walk along the city walls
By day it's a quiet university town where people cycle along the river. By evening the arcades fill with locals, wine glasses and the...
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...