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Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña
The great Romanesque cathedral at the end of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, said to hold the tomb of St James.
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bilbao, Bizkaia
Frank Gehry's spectacular museum of modern art, opened in 1997, with curving forms clad in shining titanium beside the river.
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Sagrada Família, Barcelona
Barcelona
Antoni Gaudí's extraordinary basilica, under construction since 1882 and due to be finished in the coming years.
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Casa Batlló and Casa Milà, Barcelona
Barcelona
Two of Gaudí's most famous buildings on the elegant Passeig de Gràcia.
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City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
Valencia
A futuristic complex of white buildings by Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela, set among pools in the former bed of the Turia River.
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Plaza de España, Seville
Sevilla
A vast semicircular plaza built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, with a curving brick palace, towers, a canal crossed by bridges, and tiled al…
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Royal Palace of Madrid
Madrid
The official residence of the Spanish royal family, though they live elsewhere, and the largest royal palace in Western Europe, with more than 3,000 …
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Salamanca's Old and New Cathedrals
Salamanca
Salamanca has two cathedrals joined together: the 12th-century Romanesque Old Cathedral, with a superb altarpiece of 53 painted panels, and the Gothi…