Tag: Historic Landmarks
Sagrada Familia before you go - Towers, time slots and the dress code
The foundation stone was laid in 1882. In June 2026 a pope blessed the cross on its tallest tower, and the cranes still haven't...
Should you book a guided tour of the Royal Palace of Madrid? The Throne Room, the Royal Armoury and the Changing of the Guard
More than 3,000 rooms, a set of Stradivarius instruments and a ceiling painted by Tiepolo - and yet the king goes home every evening...
Visiting the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia - Oceanogràfic, Hemisfèric, Science Museum and Calatrava’s white giants
After a terrible flood in 1957, the city moved its river out of town. The dry bed it left behind now holds some of...
Inside Poble Espanyol - 117 buildings from across Spain, craft workshops and flamenco on Montjuïc
Where else can you walk from a whitewashed Andalusian lane to a granite square from the north in ten minutes, without leaving the city?Poble...
Inside Palma Cathedral - Gaudí’s canopy, Barceló’s ceramic chapel and a rose window full of light
Twice a year, for about five minutes, the morning sun paints a figure of eight in coloured light on a stone wall. Locals queue...
Seville Cathedral, the world’s largest Gothic cathedral - Columbus’s tomb, the Giralda ramps and a courtyard of orange trees
Legend says the canons who planned it wanted a building so vast that anyone who saw it finished would take them for madmen. Six...