Construction on Barcelona's Gothic cathedral began in 1298. However, thanks to civil wars and plagues, construction continued at a pace that makes the Sagrada Família project...

Spain's largest cultural centre was opened in 1994 at the Casa de la Caritat, a former almshouse, built in 1802 on the site of a medieval monastery. The massive façade and part...

From the street, peer through the glass paving slabs and windows to see the excavated foundations of a round defence tower that dates from the earliest Roman settlement, along...

Inspired by Nelson's Column, and complete with eight majestic lions, the Christopher Columbus monument was designed for the Universal Exhibition of 1888. Positioned at the base...

A fun but somewhat shabby wax museum, featuring all the usual characters: Frankenstein, Luke Skywalker, Princess Diana (here holding hands with Mother Teresa while Charles and...

The main synagogue of the Call until the pogrom in 1391, this tiny basement building lay abandoned for many years until its rediscovery and restoration in 1996. Once again a...

Four stunning fluted Corinthian columns dating from the first century BC soar out of their podium in the most unlikely of places: a back patio of the Mountaineering Centre of...