
Browse the colourful tiles at Plaza de España, then wander the narrow lanes of Barrio Santa Cruz.
1 hr 48

Gaudí’s Sagrada Família draws the eye with its organic forms and colorful details inside and out.
5 hr 33

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

Retiro Park has garden paths, peacocks and a pond where you can take a rowboat out.
2 hr 32

Browse the stalls at Mercado Central beneath its soaring modernist roof.
4 hr 31

Walk Monte Urgull’s paths past old defensive walls to Castillo de la Mota and its view across the bay.
7 hr 45

The Tower of Hercules still guides ships as a Roman lighthouse, with the Atlantic stretching below.
6 hr 25

Pause inside Basilica del Pilar to take in the frescoes by Francisco Goya.
3 hr 37