
Browse the colourful tiles at Plaza de España, then wander the narrow lanes of Barrio Santa Cruz.
2 hr 53

Ride a tram along the Tagus, then stop by the Torre de Belém.
6 hr 45

A forest of columns and arches fills the Mosque-Cathedral, tracing the city’s Islamic and Christian past.
3 hr 53

Retiro Park has garden paths, peacocks and a pond where you can take a rowboat out.
4 hr 57

Walk the Paseo de los Tristes beside the Darro with the Alhambra’s walls above.
5 hr 41

Browse the stalls at Mercado Central beneath its soaring modernist roof.
7 hr 32

Santa Bárbara Castle crowns Mount Benacantil above the Explanada’s mosaic promenade and the Mediterranean shore.
7 hr 55

Pause inside Basilica del Pilar to take in the frescoes by Francisco Goya.
7 hr 06