
Browse the colourful tiles at Plaza de España, then wander the narrow lanes of Barrio Santa Cruz.
5 hr 52

Gaudí’s Sagrada Família draws the eye with its organic forms and colorful details inside and out.
5 hr 49

A forest of columns and arches fills the Mosque-Cathedral, tracing the city’s Islamic and Christian past.
5 hr 05

Retiro Park has garden paths, peacocks and a pond where you can take a rowboat out.
3 hr 23

Walk the Paseo de los Tristes beside the Darro with the Alhambra’s walls above.
6 hr 36

Walk Monte Urgull’s paths past old defensive walls to Castillo de la Mota and its view across the bay.
7 hr 35

The Tower of Hercules still guides ships as a Roman lighthouse, with the Atlantic stretching below.
1 hr 55

Cervantes’ birthplace museum recreates a 16th-century home, tucked along the arcaded Calle Mayor.
3 hr 48