
Browse the colourful tiles at Plaza de España, then wander the narrow lanes of Barrio Santa Cruz.
6 hr 04

Ride a tram along the Tagus, then stop by the Torre de Belém.
7 hr 25

Gaudí’s Sagrada Família draws the eye with its organic forms and colorful details inside and out.
7 hr 56

A forest of columns and arches fills the Mosque-Cathedral, tracing the city’s Islamic and Christian past.
6 hr 44

Retiro Park has garden paths, peacocks and a pond where you can take a rowboat out.
4 hr 45

Browse the stalls at Mercado Central beneath its soaring modernist roof.
7 hr 20

Santa Bárbara Castle crowns Mount Benacantil above the Explanada’s mosaic promenade and the Mediterranean shore.
7 hr 43

Cervantes’ birthplace museum recreates a 16th-century home, tucked along the arcaded Calle Mayor.
5 hr 39