#4 best destination in the world

 

Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid

Best time to travel: March-May, Sept-Nov
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • One of the largest parks of the city of Madrid
  • The park belonged to the Spanish Monarchy until the late 19th century, when it became a public park

Museo del Prado, Madrid

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Best time to travel: March-May, Sept-Nov
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Art museum largely considered to have one of the world’s finest collections of European art
  • Art dates back to the 12th century to the 20th century
  • Collection comprises drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Best time to travel: March-May, Sept-Nov
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Spain’s national museum of 20th-century art, mainly dedicated to Spanish art
  • The museum was officially inaugurated in 1990, and is named for Queen Sofía
  • Highlights of the museum include collections of Spain’s two greatest 20th-century masters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí
  • The most famous masterpiece in the museum is Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica
  • One of the world’s largest museums for modern and contemporary art

Plaza Mayor, Madrid

Best time to travel: March-May, Sept-Nov
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Major public space in the heart of Madrid
  • It was once the centre of Old Madrid
  • It was first built (1580–1619) during the reign of Philip III

Casa de Campo, Madrid

Best time to travel: March-May, Sept-Nov
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Largest public park in Madrid, it was once a royal hunting estate
  • It was created in the early 16th century for use by the royal family and nobility, and was opened to the public in 1931 when it became a public park

As Catedrais Beach

Best time to travel: March-May
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Beach noted for its natural arches and caves, which can be seen only at low tide
  • During low tide the size of its cliffs and sea caves is more apparent, ranging from small cracks on the rock to big caves whose roofs have collapsed due to the erosion of the waves

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Best time to travel: May-July
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Museum of modern and contemporary art located in Bilbao
  • The museum was inaugurated in 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with an exhibition of 250 contemporary works of art
  • The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists
  • It is one of the largest museums in Spain

Beach of La Concha, San Sebastián

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Best time to travel: May-July
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Crescent shaped urban seaboard of the city of San Sebastián located at the Bay of La Concha
  • Sandy beach and shallow substrate, in which the tide fluctuation greatly affects the area available for use

Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona

Best time to travel: May-June
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Concert hall in Barcelona, designed in the Catalan modernista style
  • It was built between 1905 and 1908 for Orfeó Català, a choral society founded in 1891 that was a leading force in the Catalan cultural movement that came to be known as the Renaixença (Catalan Rebirth)

Casa Batlló, Barcelona

Best time to travel: May-June
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Building in the center of Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí, and considered one of his masterpieces
  • A remodel of a previously built house, it was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí and has been refurbished several times after that

Casa Milà, Barcelona

Best time to travel: May-June
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Popularly known as La Pedrera (Spanish: “the stone quarry”) in reference to its unconventional rough-hewn appearance, is a Modernista building in Barcelona
  • It was the last private residence designed by architect Antoni Gaudí and was built between 1906 and 1912

Sagrada Família, Barcelona

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Best time to travel: May-June
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Large unfinished Roman Catholic minor basilica in Barcelona, which began construction in 1882 and is estimated not to be completed until 2026
  • Antoni Gaudí, who took over as chief architect, transformed the project with his architectural and engineering style, combining Gothic and curvilinear Art Nouveau forms
  • Relying solely on private donations, the Sagrada Família’s construction progressed slowly and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War
  • In 1936, revolutionaries set fire to the crypt and broke their way into the workshop, partially destroying Gaudí’s original plans, drawings and plaster models, which led to 16 years work to piece together the fragments of the master model
  • Some of the project’s greatest challenges remain, including the construction of ten more spires, each symbolizing an important Biblical figure in the New Testament

Park Güell, Barcelona

Best time to travel: May-June
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Privatized park system composed of gardens and architectural elements located in Barcelona
  • With urbanization in mind, Eusebi Güell assigned the design of the park to Antoni Gaudí, a renowned architect and the face of Catalan modernism

Sant Jeroni Summit Loop, Parc Natural de la Muntanya de Montserrat

Best time to travel: May-June
Walk difficulty: Moderate
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Trail within the Natural Park that begins near the Montserrat Monastery
  • The path takes you through the forest, which gradually turns into stone peaks
  • Sant Jeroni is the highest point of the Montserrat mountain

PortAventura World, Salou and Vila-seca

Best time to travel: June-Aug
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Theme park which attracts around 3.5 million visitors per year, making it the most visited theme park in Spain
  • The resort includes a second theme park, Ferrari Land, since 2017, and also includes PortAventura Caribe Aquatic Park, along with five hotels

Cala Comte, Ibiza

Best time to travel: May-Oct
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Small sandy beach with several small coves nearby
  • The beach has shallow clear blue and turquoise water which is kept that way by the constant flow of sea currents in the area
  • From the beach there are views of the small islands of S’Espartar Illa des Bosc and Sa Conillera

Grand Palladium Palace Ibiza Resort & Spa

Best time to travel: May-Oct
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $$$

  • All-inclusive 5 star hotel in the heart of Playa d’en Bossa in Ibiza

Albarracín – Pinares de Rodeno, Albarracín

Best time to travel: April-May
Walk difficulty: Moderate
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Mountain biking trail that begins in the Teruel town of Albarracín, in Aragón
  • Proposed to be considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to the attractiveness and importance of its historical heritage

Plaza de España, Seville

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Best time to travel: March-May
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Plaza in a park, built in 1928
  • Great example of Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival styles

Alcázar of Seville

Best time to travel: March-May
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Royal palace in Seville, built for the Christian king Peter of Castile
  • It was built by Castilian Christians on the site of an Abbadid Muslim alcazar, or residential fortress
  • The fortress was destroyed after the Christian conquest of Seville in 1248

Seville Cathedral

Best time to travel: March-May
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville, it is one of the largest churches in the world as well as the largest Gothic church
  • After its completion in the early 16th century, Seville Cathedral supplanted Hagia Sophia as the largest cathedral in the world, a title the Byzantine church had held for a thousand years

Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba

Best time to travel: March-May
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Córdoba dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and located in the Spanish region of Andalusia
  • Due to its status as a former Islamic mosque, it is also known as the Mezquita and as the Great Mosque of Córdoba
  • According to traditional accounts, a Visigothic church, the Catholic Christian Basilica of Saint Vincent of Saragossa, originally stood on the site of the current Mosque-Cathedral, although the historicity of this narrative has been questioned by scholars

Alhambra, Granada

Best time to travel: May-June, Sept-Oct
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Palace and fortress complex located in Granada, one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture, and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world, in addition to containing notable examples of Spanish Renaissance architecture
  • The complex was begun in 1238 by Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar, the founder of the Emirate of Granada
  • After the conclusion of the Christian Reconquista in 1492, the site became the Royal Court of Ferdinand and Isabella, where Christopher Columbus received royal endorsement for his expedition
  • After being allowed to fall into disrepair for centuries, with its buildings occupied by squatters, the Alhambra was rediscovered, and the rediscoverers were first British intellectuals and then other American and northern European Romantic travelers

Chinyero Volcano Loop, Tenerife

Best time to travel: March-May, Sept-Nov
Walk difficulty: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, its summit (at 3,715 m (12,188 ft)) is the highest point in Spain and the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic.
  • It is described by UNESCO and NASA as Earth’s third-tallest volcanic structure
  • Teide was formed just 170,000 years ago due to volcanic activity following a catastrophic landslide, Teide’s base is actually situated in the Las Cañadas crater (the remains of an older, eroded, extinct volcano)

El Golfo – Playa del Paso, Timanfaya National Park

Best time to travel: March-May, Sept-Nov
Walk difficulty: Moderate
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

  • Trail in Timanfaya National Park, a Spanish national park in the Canary Islands
  • The parkland is entirely made up of volcanic soil
  • Timanfaya National Park represents a sign of recent and historical volcanism in the Macaronesian Region
  • The last volcanic eruptions occurred during the 18th century as well as on the 19th century