Destination

Aerial view of the white houses of Los Canos de Meca along a curving sandy beach and rocky shoreline.

Los Caños de Meca

Los Caños de Meca sits on the Barbate coast between Cabo de Trafalgar and the pine cliffs of La Brena. […]

Wooden boardwalk crossing grassy dunes onto the wide sandy beach of El Palmar, Vejer de la Frontera.

Playa El Palmar

El Palmar belongs to Vejer de la Frontera, though the white town itself sits ten kilometres inland on its hill.

Busy sandy beach with dozens of kitesurfing kites in a blue sky at Playa de Valdevaqueros, Tarifa.

Playa de Valdevaqueros

Valdevaqueros is the big, wild bay about ten kilometres north-west of Tarifa, inside the Parque Natural del Estrecho. At roughly

Wide sandy beach with rocks and shallow pools at sunset, Playa de los Lances, Tarifa, with hills behind.

Playa de los Lances

Playa de los Lances is the long sandy arc immediately north-west of Tarifa town, and the beach most visitors to

Sunset over the dune-backed sands of Playa de Oyambre in western Cantabria

Playa de Oyambre

An undeveloped dune-backed beach inside Cantabria’s Oyambre natural park, where a transatlantic aircraft landed in 1929.

The Gothic church of Santa María de la Asunción above the harbour at Castro Urdiales, Cantabria

Castro Urdiales

A Roman-founded harbour town where a 13th-century Gothic church and a castle-lighthouse stand together above the sea.

El Capricho, Antoni Gaudí’s sunflower-tiled villa in Comillas, Cantabria

Comillas

A small Cantabrian seaside town holding Gaudí’s El Capricho, the Sobrellano palace and a Domènech-decorated university.

The Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira near Santillana del Mar, Cantabria

Altamira

Spain’s national Altamira museum, where visitors tour the Neocueva replica — the original cave has been shut since 2002.

The Romanesque Colegiata de Santa Juliana in Santillana del Mar, Cantabria

Santillana del Mar

The preserved medieval village known as the town of three lies, built round a 12th-century Romanesque collegiate church.

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