Fodor's Essential Spain 2024
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Spain—the name alone evokes images of feisty flamenco dancers, packed tapas bars, silver-green olive groves, and Mediterranean beaches. From Madrid to Sevilla to Barcelona to San Sebastian, the country appeals to travelers of all types: To architecture buffs, it’s the land of Calatrava, Churriguera, and Gaudí. To gastronomes, it’s the cradle of modernist cuisine (hola, Adrià brothers and Juan Mari Arzak) and ground zero for paella, saffron, Rioja wine, and acorn-fed ibérico ham. Even if you haven’t been to Spain, you’ve probably imagined it, whether through Goya’s paintings, Paco de Lucía’s guitar ballads, Almodóvar’s films, or Cervantes’s Don Quixote.
Yet while you can still find vestiges of la antigua España in Spain today, don’t be fooled by the age-old tropes: Spain is a moder...
Read MoreSpain—the name alone evokes images of feisty flamenco dancers, packed tapas bars, silver-green olive groves, and Mediterranean beaches. From Madrid to Sevilla to Barcelona to San Sebastian, the country appeals to travelers of all types: To architecture buffs, it’s the land of Calatrava, Churriguera, and Gaudí. To gastronomes, it’s the cradle of modernist cuisine (hola, Adrià brothers and Juan Mari Arzak) and ground zero for paella, saffron, Rioja wine, and acorn-fed ibérico ham. Even if you haven’t been to Spain, you’ve probably imagined it, whether through Goya’s paintings, Paco de Lucía’s guitar ballads, Almodóvar’s films, or Cervantes’s Don Quixote.
Yet while you can still find vestiges of la antigua España in Spain today, don’t be fooled by the age-old tropes: Spain is a modern, forward-thinking country with stunning hotels and agroturismos, cutting-edge galleries, bumping nightclubs, and a burgeoning restaurant scene that goes far beyond tapas and tabernas.
Madrid and Barcelona, rival cities with deep and sometimes conflicting histories, are non-negotiable stops on any tour of the Iberian Peninsula. The former boasts a bevy of world-class museums including the Prado—one of the best in the world with priceless Goyas, Velázquezes, and El Grecos amassed by royals through the ages—and the Reina Sofía, which houses Picasso’s Guernica and a stunning cocktail bar with UFO-shaped sofas and sheeny red ceilings. It’s also Spain’s cultural nerve center with a never-ending rotation of concerts, plays, sporting events, and art exhibitions, plus sundown-to-sunup nightlife to satisfy even the most debaucherous revelers.
Barcelona appeals to all the senses: There’s wine to be swirled and pristine seafood to be gobbled, passageways to be explored and paintings to be pondered. The ancient and avant-garde intermingle in the Catalan capital, where you can find Roman ruins, Moderniste apartments, and high-fashion boutiques in the span of a few blocks. Within arm’s reach are Girona, Figueres, and Cadaqués, charming beachside towns you can retreat to if Barcelona’s tourist hordes jangle your nerves.
Due southwest in Andalusia, Moorish citadels and gardens are a reminder of Spain’s rich Islamic past. Granada’s Alhambra fortress-palace complex, with its impossibly ornate arabesques, and Córdoba’s mosque-cathedral, with its millennium-old arches, are the region’s undisputed crown jewels, though it’s almost as famous for its sherry, flamenco, beaches, and palpable sense of alegría.
Every food lover should make at least one pilgrimage to the Basque Country, the autonomous region on the French border with more Michelin stars than it knows what to do with. But it’s not all tweezed-and-foamed fare here: The Basques are also famed for their pintxos, one-bite wonders similar to tapas but more elaborate, and down-home sagardotegiak (cider houses), which open their doors from January to May when the local cider is at its sour best.
West of the Basque Country lie Cantabria, Asturias, and Galicia, the misty, Celtic-influenced regions that are arguably the newest frontier in Spanish travel. Go for the Camino de Santiago or for the ski slopes atop the Picos de Europa; stay for the exceptional albariño wines and soul-satisfying cuisine (we’re looking at you, cachopo, Cabrales, and Galician-style octopus).
But Spain doesn’t stop at the Portuguese and French borders, it continues out to sea with scattered exclaves and islands. The Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, and Formentera) draw partiers and back-to-nature types alike with their vibrant beach scene and secret calas (inlets), while the Canary Islands, flung off the Saharan coast, are a real-life paradise with moonlike landscapes and year-round temperatures hovering in the low 80s.
The more you get to know Spain and its patchwork quilt of cultures, cuisines, and traditions, the more you realize you don’t know it at all—and that’s what makes it so thrilling to visit again and again.
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Potes
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The Cabo de Gata Nature Reserve
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Priego de Cordoba
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Llivia
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Doñana National Park
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Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido
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Roncesvalles (Orreaga)
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Alarcon
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Aracena
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La Manga del Mar Menor
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Lorca
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Betanzos
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Albufera Nature Park
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Muxia
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Huelva
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Sanlucar de Barrameda
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Ripoll
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Viveiro
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The Sierra Nevada
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Espot
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Hecho and Anso Valleys
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Puente la Reina
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Beget
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Parc Nacional d'Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici
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Olot
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Ribadeo
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Baena
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Comillas
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Ojen
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San Vicente de la Barquera
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La Rabida
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Baiona
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Santa Maria de Poblet
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Pasajes de San Juan
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Santes Creus
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Padron
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Axpe Atxondo
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Villaviciosa
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Tui
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Alcala la Real
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Sant Joan de les Abadesses
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Elantxobe
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Sort
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Mazagon
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San Lorenzo de El Escorial
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Montserrat
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Italica
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Bermeo
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Vilalba
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Muros
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Covadonga
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The Highlands
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Agua Amarga
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Fuente Vaqueros
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Burguete (Auritz)
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Bellver de Cerdanya
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Noia
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Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña
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Ripoll
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Écija
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Lekeitio
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San Jose
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San Roque
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Aragues del Puerto
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Martinet
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Bielsa
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Laredo
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Leboreiro
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Aranjuez
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Calahorra
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Mondoñedo
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Mollo
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Alta Ribagorça Oriental
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Guadix
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Moguer
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Pastrana
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Castro-Urdiales
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Santa Fe
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La Rioja Baja
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Roncesvalles
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Riotinto
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Salobreña
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San Juan de Gaztelugatxe
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Lesaka
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Frigiliana
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Llessui
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Matalascañas
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O Cebreiro
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Barcelona
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Madrid
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Seville
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Bilbao
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Granada
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San Sebastian
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Cordoba
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Valencia
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Santiago de Compostela
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Toledo
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Malaga
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Pamplona
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Girona
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Salamanca
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Vitoria-Gasteiz
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Caceres
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Jerez de la Frontera
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Marbella
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Cadiz
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Zaragoza
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Segovia
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A Coruña
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Oviedo
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Santander
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Tarragona
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Leon
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Alicante
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Trujillo
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Úbeda
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Fuengirola
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Gijon
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Cuenca
![](/assets/destinations/703996/military-fort-jaca-spain_med.jpg)
Jaca
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Vigo
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Llanes
![](/assets/destinations/18940/laguardia-spain_med.jpg)
Laguardia
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Baeza
![](/assets/destinations/710821/man-zumaia-basque-coast-spain_med.jpg)
Getaria and Zumaia
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Cambados
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Cartagena
![](/assets/destinations/22242/logrono-spain_med.jpg)
Logroño
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Burgos
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Almeria
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Torremolinos
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Merida
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Ronda
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Sitges
![](/assets/destinations/703983/beech-forest-vielha-spain_med.jpg)
Vielha
![](/assets/destinations/703988/the-buttercup-and-mountain-valley-benasque-valley-posets-maladeta-national-park-huesca-aragon-spain_med.jpg)
Huesca
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Ávila
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Ainsa
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Plasencia
![](/assets/destinations/703972/lake-schierbeck-puigcerda-catalan-pureness-spain_med.jpg)
Puigcerda
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Jaen
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Denia
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Antequera
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Pontevedra
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
La Rioja Alta
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Siguenza
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Estepona
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Alquezar
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Santillana del Mar
![](/assets/destinations/703966/bridge-camprodon-small-gerona-spain_med.jpg)
Camprodon
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Lugo
![](/assets/destinations/19223/santa-catalina-mudaka-basque-country-spain_med.jpg)
Mundaka
![](/assets/destinations/22232/vineyards-haro-la-rioja-spain_med.jpg)
Haro
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Arcos de la Frontera
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Cangas de Onis
![](/assets/destinations/704073/cathedral-of-saint-maria-murcia-spain_med.jpg)
Murcia
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Nerja
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Besalu
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Carmona
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Formentera
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Tarifa
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Luarca
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
La Vera and Monasterio de Yuste
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Mijas
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Ribadesella
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Benasque
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Figueres
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
La Seu d'Urgell
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Almagro
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Puerto de Santa Maria
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Sepulveda
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Astorga
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Benalmadena
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Guadalupe
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Almuñecar
![](/assets/destinations/18845/hondarribia-spain_med.jpg)
Hondarribia
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Ribes de Freser and Vall de Nuria
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Calpe (Calp)
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
The Cabo de Gata Nature Reserve
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Roncal Valley
![](/assets/destinations/703986/taull-lleida-catalonia-spain_med.jpg)
Taull
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Potes
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Villafranca del Bierzo
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Priego de Cordoba
![](/assets/destinations/703973/bernat-de-so-llivia-spain_med.jpg)
Llivia
![](/assets/destinations/18939/estella-navarre-spain_med.jpg)
Estella
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Aracena
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Altea
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Casares
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Montilla
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Alarcon
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Zuheros
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Betanzos
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Cazorla
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Lorca
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
La Manga del Mar Menor
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Roncesvalles (Orreaga)
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Salardu
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Ourense and La Ribeira Sacra
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
O Grove
![](/assets/destinations/703981/aguies-tortes-national-park-espot-pyrenees-spain_med.jpg)
Espot
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Huelva
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Parc Nacional d'Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Ripoll
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Sanlucar de Barrameda
![](/assets/destinations/18938/puente-la-reina-bridge-arga-river-puente-la-reina-navarra-spain_med.jpg)
Puente la Reina
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Fisterra
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Ribadeo
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Olot
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Baena
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Muxia
![](/assets/destinations/704003/baztan-valley-navarra-spain_med.jpg)
Baztan Valley
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Albufera Nature Park
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Viveiro
![](/assets/destinations/703967/beget-girona-catalonia-spain_med.jpg)
Beget
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Santes Creus
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Ojen
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Baiona
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Padron
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Comillas
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Santa Maria de Poblet
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Villaviciosa
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Alcala la Real
![](/assets/destinations/703970/sant-joan-de-les-abadesses-catalonia-spain_med.jpg)
Sant Joan de les Abadesses
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Pasajes de San Juan
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
San Lorenzo de El Escorial
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Mazagon
![](/assets/destinations/704154/elantxobe-bizkaia-spain_med.jpg)
Elantxobe
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Axpe Atxondo
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
San Vicente de la Barquera
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Tui
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Sort
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
La Rabida
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Pasaia
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Agua Amarga
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Italica
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Fuente Vaqueros
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Montserrat
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Muros
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Vilalba
![](/assets/destinations/703974/bellver-de-cerdanya-cerdanya-lleida-catalonia-spain_med.jpg)
Bellver de Cerdanya
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Noia
![](/assets/destinations/1103242/boats-port-bermeo-spain_med.jpg)
Bermeo
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Burguete (Auritz)
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Covadonga
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Alta Ribagorça Oriental
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
La Rioja Baja
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Mondoñedo
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Matalascañas
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Santa Fe
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Salobreña
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Guadix
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Calahorra
![](/assets/destinations/703993/cabin-forest-bielsa-spain_med.jpg)
Bielsa
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Martinet
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
O Cebreiro
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Aranjuez
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Frigiliana
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Laredo
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Aragues del Puerto
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Mollo
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Castro-Urdiales
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Moguer
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Pastrana
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Écija
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Leboreiro
![](/assets/destinations/704001/royal-collegiate-church-of-roncesvalles-navarre-spain_med.jpg)
Roncesvalles
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Lekeitio
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
San Jose
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Lesaka
![](/assets/destinations/703969/setcases-spain_med.jpg)
Setcases
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Llessui
![](/assets/destinations/704152/la-concha-beach-san-sebastian-spain_med.jpg)
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Riotinto
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
San Roque
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
Ripoll
![](/assets/destinations/704075/alhambra-granada-andalusia-spain_med.jpg)
Andalusia
![](/assets/destinations/712138/las-palmas-grand-canary-island-spain_med.jpg)
Canary Islands
![](/assets/destinations/254/bulls-pamplona-bilbao-and-the-basque-country-spain_med.jpg)
Bilbao and the Basque Country
![](/assets/destinations/704029/overlook-cliff-ruin-tower-torre-des-savinar-ibiza-spain_med.jpg)
Ibiza and the Balearic Islands
![](/assets/destinations/703934/cow-lago-enol-covadonga-galicia-and-asturias-spain_med.jpg)
Galicia and Asturias
![](/assets/destinations/704005/cliffs-montserrat-catalonia-valencia-and-the-costa-blanca-spain_med.jpg)
Catalonia, Valencia, and the Costa Blanca
![](/assets/destinations/260/windmill-la-mancha-castileleon-and-casilela-mancha-spain_med.jpg)
Castile–Leon and Castile–La Mancha
![](/assets/destinations/704110/cityscape-nerja-costa-del-sol-and-costa-de-almeria-spain_med.jpg)
Costa del Sol and Costa de Almeria
![](/assets/destinations/703965/hikers-the-pyrenees-spain_med.jpg)
The Pyrenees
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Extremadura
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
The Costa Brava
![](/assets/destinations/704053/palacio-consistorial-cartagena-murcia-spain_med.jpg)
The Murcia Coast
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Jerte and El Valle del Jerte (Jerte Valley)
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
The Axarquia
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Around Ronda: Caves, Romans, and Pueblos Blancos
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Grazalema and the Sierra de Grazalema
![](/images/hotels/default-image-01.webp)
Hecho and Anso Valleys
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
The Sierra Nevada
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
The Alpujarras
![](/images/hotels/default-image-02.webp)
The Guadalhorce Valley
![](/assets/destinations/704159/nuestra-senora-de-valvanera-monastery-la-rioja-spain_med.jpg)
The Highlands
![](/images/hotels/default-image-04.webp)
Vall d'Aran and Environs
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Vallferrera and Cardos Valleys
![](/images/hotels/default-image-03.webp)
Around Ronda: Caves, Romans, and Pueblos Blancos
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- Alcala la Real
- Aracena
- Arcos de la Frontera
- Around Ronda: Caves, Romans, and Pueblos Blancos
- Baena
- Baeza
- Cadiz
- Carmona
- Cazorla
- Cordoba
- Doñana National Park
- Écija
- Fuente Vaqueros
- Granada
- Grazalema and the Sierra de Grazalema
- Guadix
- Huelva
- Italica
- Jaen
- Jerez de la Frontera
- La Rabida
- Matalascañas
- Mazagon
- Moguer
- Montilla
- Priego de Cordoba
- Puerto de Santa Maria
- Riotinto
- Ronda
- Sanlucar de Barrameda
- Santa Fe
- Seville
- The Alpujarras
- The Sierra Nevada
- Úbeda
- Zuheros
The Pyrenees
- Ainsa
- Alquezar
- Alta Ribagorça Oriental
- Aragues del Puerto
- Baztan Valley
- Beget
- Bellver de Cerdanya
- Benasque
- Bielsa
- Burguete (Auritz)
- Camprodon
- Espot
- Hecho and Anso Valleys
- Huesca
- Jaca
- La Seu d'Urgell
- Lesaka
- Llessui
- Llivia
- Martinet
- Mollo
- Monasterio de San Juan de la Peña
- Parc Nacional d'Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici
- Parque Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido
- Puigcerda
- Ribes de Freser and Vall de Nuria
- Ripoll
- Roncal Valley
- Roncesvalles
- Roncesvalles (Orreaga)
- Salardu
- Sant Joan de les Abadesses
- Setcases
- Sort
- Taull
- Vall d'Aran and Environs
- Vallferrera and Cardos Valleys
- Vielha
- Zaragoza
Galicia and Asturias
- A Coruña
- Baiona
- Betanzos
- Cambados
- Cangas de Onis
- Castro-Urdiales
- Comillas
- Covadonga
- Fisterra
- Gijon
- Laredo
- Leboreiro
- Llanes
- Luarca
- Lugo
- Mondoñedo
- Muros
- Muxia
- Noia
- O Cebreiro
- O Grove
- Ourense and La Ribeira Sacra
- Oviedo
- Padron
- Pontevedra
- Potes
- Ribadeo
- Ribadesella
- Santander
- Santiago de Compostela
- Santillana del Mar
- San Vicente de la Barquera
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