Tag: Viewpoints
Visiting Montserrat Monastery - The rack railway, the Black Madonna and the boys’ choir
Legend says angels carved these mountains with a golden saw. Stand beneath the rock pinnacles in the morning light, and you might start to...
Best time to visit the Benalmádena cable car - Calamorro summit views, walking trails and birds of prey
On a clear winter morning you can stand on one mountaintop and see two continents, a snow-capped sierra and most of the Costa del...
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...
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...
Montjuïc cable car, Barcelona’s sky ride to the castle - Mirador views, the funicular link and the Port Cable Car
Eight seats, a wide window and a few quiet minutes with pine trees, rooftops and the Mediterranean sliding past below your feet.The Montjuïc cable...
Is Sacromonte worth visiting? Cave houses, zambra flamenco and the best views of the Alhambra
For centuries, people here didn't build their homes. They dug them out of the hillside, whitewashed the doorways and lit the lamps for a...