The best experience gift in Spain is a sunrise balloon flight over Segovia — an hour of drifting silence above a Roman aqueduct and a fairytale castle, a cava toast on landing, and a flight certificate with their name on it. It is the present nobody buys for themselves, which is exactly what makes it…
The best Spanish gifts are edible ones — and the single best buy in the country is a vacuum-packed pack of jamón ibérico, the acorn-fed ham that tastes like nowhere else on earth and travels home in a suitcase corner. Spain is a gift-giver’s gift to themselves: the food is world-class and portable, the crafts…
The best romantic getaways in Spain are not the famous honeymoon clichés — they are the places where the evenings do the work for you, and if you only pick one, make it Seville. Nowhere else in the country stacks the deck quite like it: a floodlit cathedral, orange trees in every square, a slow…
Ten days in Spain is enough for the classic first trip done properly — Madrid and Toledo, Córdoba, Granada, Seville and Barcelona, strung together on short train rides and one short flight, with every great sight given a full day and no journey wasted on backtracking. It is also the trip length travellers most often…
Spain is a country where lunch is the main event, where a bar with twelve stools can outcook a white-tablecloth restaurant, and where every region insists — correctly — that its way of eating is the real one. That is exactly what makes eating here both wonderful and treacherous for a visitor: the gap between…
Two weeks is where a Spain trip stops being a compromise. One week — and our one-week itinerary walks it day by day — forces a hard choice between Andalusia and Barcelona. A fortnight ends the argument: Madrid with its great day trip, Córdoba, Granada, Málaga, Ronda and Seville strung along the southern railway, then…
Ask a room of travellers to name the most Spanish night out imaginable and flamenco wins every time — it is on our list of things you can only do in Spain for a reason. A singer wringing a note out of somewhere below the ribcage, a guitarist’s hands moving faster than your eyes, a…
Some countries have a famous sight you can only see there. Spain has something rarer: a whole calendar of things you can only do there — experiences that exist in one village, one valley, one bodega or one basilica, and nowhere else on earth. A devil who leaps over newborn babies. A language that is…
Spain’s cities get the itineraries, but its small towns get the love letters — and the love is not always well aimed. The towns on most lists are the famous handful, photographed from the same three angles, while whole provinces of equally deserving places go unmentioned. This list of the best Spanish towns to visit…
Málaga is the city that southern Spain happens to. Millions of visitors a year land at its airport, walk straight through its railway station and out to the resorts of the Costa del Sol, treating one of Spain’s oldest and liveliest cities as a corridor with a beach attached. That is a waste of a…