A vast semicircular plaza built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, with a curving brick palace, towers, a canal crossed by bridges, and tiled alcoves representing each Spanish province. You can hire a rowing boat on the canal.
It's free and open all day, in the large Maria Luisa Park. It's best in the late afternoon light. Flamenco dancers often perform in the plaza. Seville's Triana district across the river is the place for flamenco and ceramics.
A royal palace begun by the Moors and rebuilt by Christian kings in the Mudéjar style, with richly tiled and carved halls, courtyards with pools, and…
A dramatic hilltop town split in two by the El Tajo gorge, 100 m deep, spanned by the 18th-century Puente Nuevo bridge.
A walkway pinned to the walls of the El Chorro gorge, once called the world's most dangerous path, and rebuilt safely in 2015.
The great mosque of Córdoba, begun in 785, with a forest of more than 850 columns supporting red and white striped arches, and a dazzling mihrab of g…
The luxury marina just west of Marbella, built in 1970, where superyachts line the quays and supercars cruise past the designer boutiques.
Behind Marbella's glitzy reputation is a pretty Andalusian old town (Casco Antiguo) of narrow whitewashed lanes, flower pots and little squares.
Comments
No comments yet.