
Browse the colourful tiles at Plaza de España, then wander the narrow lanes of Barrio Santa Cruz.
2 hr 22

Gaudí’s Sagrada Família draws the eye with its organic forms and colorful details inside and out.
6 hr 39

A forest of columns and arches fills the Mosque-Cathedral, tracing the city’s Islamic and Christian past.
1 hr 10

Retiro Park has garden paths, peacocks and a pond where you can take a rowboat out.
3 hr 24

Walk the Paseo de los Tristes beside the Darro with the Alhambra’s walls above.
2 hr 58

Browse the stalls at Mercado Central beneath its soaring modernist roof.
5 hr 05

The Tower of Hercules still guides ships as a Roman lighthouse, with the Atlantic stretching below.
7 hr 17

Santa Bárbara Castle crowns Mount Benacantil above the Explanada’s mosaic promenade and the Mediterranean shore.
4 hr 48