
Browse the colourful tiles at Plaza de España, then wander the narrow lanes of Barrio Santa Cruz.
4 hr 06

Gaudí’s Sagrada Família draws the eye with its organic forms and colorful details inside and out.
4 hr 03

A forest of columns and arches fills the Mosque-Cathedral, tracing the city’s Islamic and Christian past.
3 hr 09

At Ribeira, colourful houses crowd the Douro waterfront, where a slow stroll is part of the pleasure.
7 hr 54

Retiro Park has garden paths, peacocks and a pond where you can take a rowboat out.
55 min

Browse the stalls at Mercado Central beneath its soaring modernist roof.
3 hr 27

Walk Monte Urgull’s paths past old defensive walls to Castillo de la Mota and its view across the bay.
6 hr 08

Cervantes’ birthplace museum recreates a 16th-century home, tucked along the arcaded Calle Mayor.
1 hr 49