Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and Spain’s second city, pressed between the Collserola hills and the Mediterranean. Its layout tells its history at a glance: the dense medieval lanes of the Ciutat Vella at the centre, surrounded by the Eixample, the 19th-century grid that gave modernisme its canvas. Antoni Gaudí built most of his […]
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Peñíscola sits on the Costa del Azahar, the Orange Blossom Coast, roughly halfway between Valencia and Barcelona. Its walled old town occupies a rocky peninsula that gave the place its name, from the Latin for peninsula, and carries a Templar castle on top; locals call it the city in the sea. South of the town, […]
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Menorca is the easternmost of Spain’s Balearic Islands, a quieter neighbour to Mallorca that UNESCO declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1993. Its two towns, Maó in the east and Ciutadella in the west, bracket an interior of farmland and a coastline that alternates between white limestone coves in the south and dark, wind-worn headlands in […]
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Spain covers most of the Iberian Peninsula and reaches far beyond it: the Balearic Islands of Mallorca and Menorca in the Mediterranean, and the volcanic Canary Islands off the coast of Africa. Madrid, the highest capital in the European Union, sits at its geographic centre, with Barcelona, Valencia, and Zaragoza spread along the north and […]
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Mallorca is the largest of the Balearic Islands, sitting in the western Mediterranean off the eastern coast of Spain. Palma, on the south coast, holds most of the island’s population and its Gothic cathedral, while the Serra de Tramuntana runs along the northwest coast and rises to the highest ground on the island. To the […]
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Valencia is Spain‘s third-largest city, sitting on the Mediterranean coast as the capital of the Valencian Community. The defining modern landmark is the City of Arts and Sciences, a Calatrava and Candela complex built into the former bed of the River Turia, while the Old Town clusters around the cathedral. The Photographer’s Eye | Valencia, […]
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Zaragoza is the capital of the Aragón region in northeastern Spain and the country’s fifth-largest city by population, sitting on the Ebro River roughly halfway between Madrid and Barcelona. Founded by the Romans as Caesaraugusta in the 1st century BC, it passed through Visigothic, Islamic, and Christian rule, and that layering shows up in almost […]
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Madrid: The Pulse of Spain Madrid isn’t just the capital of Spain—it’s the pulse that animates the country’s history, culture, and everyday magic. For the curious and thoughtful soul with a love for photography and storytelling, Madrid offers something deeper than a typical tourist checklist. It’s a city where past and present intersect in golden-hour […]
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The Anaga Mountains made us feel like being in the middle of the forest from Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood because of the shapes of the trees in Laurel Forest. Another time, we found ourselves in a small, isolated village that stretched across evergreen mountain slopes and looked almost like an ancient Mayan civilization. It […]
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