Spain

Oviedo or Gijon: which one suits you

They are twenty five kilometres apart, they belong to the same region and they dislike each other with a consistency that amuses everyone from outside.

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Playa de las Catedrales: planning around the tides

This is the one beach in Europe where the hour you arrive decides whether you see anything at all. Playa de las Catedrales has stone

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Picos de Europa: the best hiking trails

A limestone massif that rises to over 2,600 metres just twenty kilometres from the Atlantic, with deep gorges, glacial lakes and villages reached by funicular.

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Galicia: seafood, Celtic coast and pilgrims

The north west corner of Spain looks nothing like the Spain of the brochures: it rains all year, the landscape is green, people play the

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Seville: the Alcazar, flamenco and tapas

The hottest large city in Spain, the birthplace of flamenco, and the holder of a Moorish palace that is still a working royal residence. Seville

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Asturias and Cantabria: green Spain

A coast of cliffs and small beaches, mountains that reach 2,600 metres twenty kilometres inland, and a landscape that is green for the reason all

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The golden triangle of art in Madrid

Three world class museums within about a kilometre of each other on one boulevard, which is a concentration nowhere else in Europe matches. The golden

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