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Spain covers 506,030 square kilometres and counts close to 50 million people, and it reads less as one country than as a set of regions that do not resemble each other. Madrid sits high and dry in the middle of the peninsula with the national collections in it; Barcelona is Mediterranean and Catalan-speaking. Andalusia in the south carries the Moorish architecture of Granada, Córdoba and Seville along with the heat that comes with it, while the green north coast from Bilbao to Galicia is wet Atlantic country most visitors never reach. The Canary Islands lie off Africa, and Ceuta and Melilla are on the African mainland itself.
Every city catalogued in this country so far, ranked by how much there is to see.
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The Sagrada Família is a Catholic basilica in the Eixample district of Barcelona that has been under construction since 1882 and is still not finished.
Spotify Camp Nou is FC Barcelona's stadium, in the Les Corts district on the western side of the city. The club's own facilities page dates the official opening to 24 September 1957.
Park Güell is a twelve-hectare hillside park in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, and it began life as a property venture that failed.
Casa Batlló is a remodelled apartment block at Passeig de Gràcia 43, and the remodelling is the reason to go. The building was put up in 1877 by Emili Sala Cortés, one of Gaudí's own architecture professors.
Sant Pau Recinte Modernista is the hospital Barcelona built when its medieval one gave out, and it is now visited as architecture rather than used as a ward.
The Palau de la Música Catalana is a working concert hall in the Sant Pere quarter, a few streets east of Plaça de Catalunya, and it is the only Art Nouveau concert venue on the UNESCO World Heritage List, inscribed…
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya occupies the Palau Nacional, the domed building that stands at the head of Montjuïc above Plaça Espanya. The palace was not built as a museum.
The Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria is a working public food market in the Ciutat Vella district, entered from La Rambla a few doors from the Liceu opera house.
Casa Milà is the apartment block Antoni Gaudí built on the chamfered corner of Passeig de Gràcia and Carrer de Provença between 1906 and 1912, and it was the last civil building he completed before he gave the rest of…
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