Montjuïc Castle
Montjuïc Castle overlooks Barcelona from a hilltop above the port — and once turned its own cannons on the city below.
Destination
Museu Picasso
Picasso vowed never to return to Spain under Franco, yet insisted his museum be built in Barcelona, the city that shaped him as a teenager.
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
MNAC holds the world’s finest Romanesque frescoes, rescued from Pyrenees churches in a race against foreign art dealers in the 1920s.
Casa Batlló
Casa Batlló is Antoni Gaudí’s most colourful building in Barcelona, nicknamed the House of Bones, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005.
Barcelona Cathedral
Barcelona Cathedral is the Gothic cathedral of the Gothic Quarter, dedicated to Saint Eulalia, with foundations begun in 1298.
Park Güell
Park Güell is Antoni Gaudí’s hilltop garden complex above Barcelona, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984.
Sagrada Família
Sagrada Família is Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished basilica in Barcelona, under construction since 1882 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Bajondillo Cave
A cave under Torremolinos moved the arrival of modern humans in Western Europe back 5,000 years — and started a journal argument about whether it did.
Benalmádena Stupa
Europe’s tallest stupa was the last project of a Bhutanese master who died four months before it opened — and unusually, you can walk inside it.
Calaburras Lighthouse
The seabed below Calaburras holds two thousand years of shipwrecks. The lighthouse above became Spain’s first to guide aircraft as well as ships.