The Aqueduct of Segovia is one of the greatest surviving monuments of Roman engineering, a colossal double-tiered arcade of 167 granite arches soaring 28 metres above the Plaza del Azoguejo in the heart of the Spanish city of Segovia, constructed without a single drop of mortar nearly 2,000 years ago and still standing in magnificent […]
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The Sil Canyon (Cañón del Sil) is one of the most spectacular river canyons in Spain, a deep, dramatic gorge carved by the Río Sil through the Ribeira Sacra wine region of Galicia in northwestern Spain, where the river’s vertical limestone walls rise up to 500 metres above the water and are terraced with ancient […]
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Marineland is one of Europe’s premier marine zoological parks, a large dolphinarium, marine zoo, and water park complex on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain that offers dolphin and sea lion shows, a walk-through aquarium, and a water park with slides and pools. Located in the popular resort area near Málaga and Torremolinos, Marineland […]
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The Torre de Hércules (Tower of Hercules) is the oldest active lighthouse in the world, a 55-metre Roman lighthouse built in the late 1st century AD on a rocky headland in A Coruña, Galicia, northwestern Spain, that has been guiding ships into the harbour continuously for over 1,900 years. Declared a UNESCO World heritage site […]
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Benidorm is Spain’s most famous, and most controversial, resort city: a skyline of towering skyscrapers rising from the Costa Blanca like a Mediterranean Manhattan, with more high-rise buildings per capita than any city in Europe. Love it or hate it, Benidorm is a phenomenon: two sweeping golden beaches, a year-round microclimate, and a tourism model […]
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The city of Elche in southern Alicante province holds a UNESCO World heritage site that is entirely unique in Europe: a network of over 200,000 date palms covering 144 agricultural plots across 500 hectares, a Moorish irrigation system still in use today, and a claim to be the largest palm grove in Europe, rivalled only […]
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L’Oceanogràfic is the largest aquarium in Europe, holding 42 million litres of water across 14 separate ecosystems, and its lotus-flower-shaped roof, designed by architect Félix Candela, has become the defining image of Valencia’s futuristic City of Arts and Sciences complex. Located in the dry riverbed of the former Turia River in the heart of Valencia, […]
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The Serra de Tramuntana, running for 90 kilometres along the north-west coast of Majorca, is a UNESCO World heritage cultural landscape where dry-stone terraces climb impossible slopes, ancient olive trees with trunks a metre thick grow from rock, and a network of stone pathways dating back to the Arab occupation connects mountain villages that have […]
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One million years ago, tectonic shifts created a shallow brackish lagoon in the heart of Andalusia that would become one of the most important nesting sites for the greater flamingo in Europe, a 1,364-hectare wetland where salt crystals float on the surface like a mirror and the pink of a million flamingo wings turns the […]
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The Ruidera Lagoons (Lagunas de Ruidera) are a unique natural wonder in central Spain, a chain of 15 interconnected turquoise-blue lakes stretching for 30 kilometres along the Pinilla River valley on the border of Castilla–La Mancha, formed by travertine barriers that create a natural staircase of cascading pools reminiscent of Plitvice Lakes on a smaller, […]
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