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Charming hotels in Madrid: 9 for your first visitOn a first visit to Madrid, almost everything begs to be seen: the Royal Palace, the Prado, the…
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Charming hotels in Catalonia for first-time visitorsWhen you travel to a new region for the first time, the choice of hotel matters more than…
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Christmas Markets in Catalonia for First-Timers: 2026 GuideVisiting the Christmas markets in Catalonia for the first time is far more enjoyable if you know in…
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Christmas markets in Cantabria: a first-timer’s guideIf you have never been to Cantabria at Christmas, it helps to know one thing before packing: there…
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Members of La Trinca: three names, no departures and one lossThe members of La Trinca were Toni Cruz, Josep Maria Mainat and Miquel Àngel Pasqual, and that is…
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Christmas Market in Vic: a dual medieval and artisan eventThe Vic Christmas Market offers a dual proposal that combines artisan tradition with a great historical atmosphere during…
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Beautiful villages near Peratallada: 8 villages of the Baix EmpordàPeratallada is visited with your feet on the stone and your eyes on the walls. The beautiful villages…
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The most beautiful villages near La Garriga: 8 stops around MontsenyYou leave La Garriga and ten minutes later the air already smells of forest. The most beautiful villages…
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The Most Beautiful Villages Near Lleida: 8 Stops of Stone and PyreneesThe plain of Lleida is deceptive. It seems to be only grain and orchards until a castle appears…
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Beautiful Villages Near Montserrat: 8 Towns with Romanesque Art and CastlesMontserrat can be seen from far away: a ridge of conglomerate that looks sawn against the sky. But…
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Beautiful Towns Near Barcelona with a Beach: 8 Plans by TrainYou leave Barcelona with a towel in your backpack and in less than an hour the train is…
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Beautiful Villages Near Tremp: 7 Stops with Castles, Salt and ViewsThe afternoon light falls on the cliffs of the Pre-Pyrenees and turns the stone honey-colored. That is how…
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Beautiful Villages Near Sort: 8 Stone Hamlets and Rivers of the PallarsThe Noguera Pallaresa runs clear and loud through the Pallars Sobirà, and the hamlets of this part of…
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Beautiful Villages Near Andorra: 8 Stops in the Catalan PyreneesAndorra is almost always travelled vertically: slopes, shops, mountain passes. But all it takes is crossing the border…
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Perpignan Christmas Market: 7 Ideas with Sweet Wine, Nativity Scenes and a Ferris WheelIf you only read this The 2026 edition is announced from 27 November to 3 January 2027. The…
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Barcelona Christmas Market: 7 Walks to Get Moving Over the HolidaysIf you only read this The Fira de Santa Llúcia has filled the area around the cathedral since…
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Beautiful Villages Near Calella: 8 With Beaches, Modernisme and Medieval WallsThe morning begins with a smell of sea salt and pine. You leave the Calella lighthouse behind, the…
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Most Beautiful Villages Near Santillana del Mar: 8 to VisitWhy is the "town of the three lies" neither holy (santa), nor flat (llana), nor on the sea…
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Pretty Villages Near Olot: 8 Escapes Among Volcanoes and BalconiesThe Garrotxa is seen with your feet on the ground and your head tilted. Beneath the beech woods…
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Beautiful Villages near Vic: 8 Getaways between Cliffs and VolcanoesThe fog rises up the Osona valley and stays tangled in the beech forests and the rocks. Twenty…
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Most Beautiful Villages Near Coma-ruga: 8 Getaways Full of HistoryThe wide beaches of Coma-ruga, with their fine sand, can hold anyone. But a few minutes from the…
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Beautiful Villages Near Girona: 8 Getaways Between Stone and VolcanoesThe province of Girona fits into a morning's drive and holds a month of walks. Between the Empordà,…
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Beautiful Villages Near Ribes de Freser: 8 Hamlets to DisconnectThe meeting point of the Rigat, Segadell and Freser rivers opens a natural gateway to the peaks of…
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Beautiful Villages Near Vielha: 8 Pyrenean Hamlets of Romanesque Art and SlateThe Val d'Aran looks different from every village. Houses of stone and wood with dark slate roofs blend…
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Beautiful Villages Near Barcelona: 8 Getaways of Stone and SeaBarcelona is addictive, but sometimes you want to slow down. Drive out of the city for an hour…
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What to see in Lleida: a guide to discovering the city of the Seu VellaSome cities sound like a catchy chorus and others work like a slow-listening album. Lleida belongs to the…
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The Alt Empordà village where Sandra Barneda spent her summers: Romanesque paintings, a 17th-century sluice and the novel that became a seriesSome places are read before they are visited. For the presenter and writer Sandra Barneda, a small village…
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Sergio Dalma’s refuge in the Baix Empordà: a stone farmhouse, a castle Dalí gave to Gala and 135 neighboursThere are autumn mornings in the Baix Empordà when the smell of woodsmoke rises from the chimneys and…
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The Costa Brava beach where Alexia Putellas spent her childhood summers: coastal path, coves and a fishing villageArriving in Calella de Palafrugell, the first thing you notice is the colour: white houses with green shutters,…
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Melyssa Pinto and her refuge in the Madrid mountains: holm oak woods, a reservoir and the bullfighting fair that opens the seasonYou approach Valdemorillo along the road with the mountain peak in the background and the dehesa on either…
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The Lleida village of 208 inhabitants that has become Xavi Hernández’s refuge: a 1610 hermitage and a ten-hectare arboretumSome villages are better understood through what they grow than through what they show. La Pobla de Cérvoles,…
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The Lleida town where Álex Márquez was born: medieval walls and the 1359 CortesCervera appears suddenly among the cereal fields of inland Lleida: a skyline of towers and bell towers on…
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The Coastal Village Fifteen Kilometres from Barcelona Where Dulceida Grew Up: a Hill Above the Sea and a Long BeachLess than fifteen kilometres from the centre of Barcelona, where the coast starts to leave the Barcelonès behind,…
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The Vallès Town Where Claudia Pina Began: Castle, Iberian Settlement and Mountain Range at the Gates of BarcelonaBefore the packed stadiums and the Champions League nights, there was a futsal court in a working-class town…
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The village near Barcelona where Aitana Bonmatí grew up: a medieval castle, indiano mansions and a football pitch with her nameSome villages sound like a football pitch before they sound like a place on a map. Sant Pere…
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What to see in Girona in 48 hours: a guide to exploring it on footFor a long time, Girona was the city you saw in passing, on the way to Barcelona or…
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Things to Do in Barcelona for Free: 10 Plans That Cost Not a EuroBarcelona has a reputation as an expensive city, and in hotels or restaurants in the centre it is…
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The Cerdanya village where Gerard Piqué spends his summers: a Romanesque church and an Iberian settlementA village in the Cerdanya at first light has a sound of its own: bells arriving from far…
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The Town in Barcelona Province Where Diana Gómez Was Born: Medieval Tanneries and a Hot-Air Balloon FestivalSome cities are looked at from the motorway and passed by. Igualada, in the Barcelona county of l'Anoia,…
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The Girona village of Pau Cubarsí: fewer than 200 residents and a family carpentry workshop founded in 1905Some footballers carry the name of their village on their shirt even though nobody knows where it is.…
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Best beaches on the Costa Dorada: 9 stretches of sand and charming covesGolden sand, shallow water and a train that skirts the shore. The Costa Dorada has everything close at…
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Best Beaches in Tarragona: 9 Coves That Win You Over at First SightPines reaching down to the sand, clear water over golden sandy bottoms and, in the distance, the silhouette…
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Aitana Ocaña’s village near Barcelona: the “cherry capital”, 15 kilometres from the cityAbout 15 kilometres from Barcelona, in the Baix Llobregat, there is a village of some 4,000 inhabitants that…
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Dog Beaches in France: Legal Guide and Access MapOn the French coast, dogs on the sand are not governed by one uniform rule but by a…
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Best Coves on the Costa Brava: 8 Spots That Win Everyone OverIt is Sunday, half past eight, and on the bend at Begur cars are already looking for a…
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The Town near Barcelona Where Marc Cucurella Was Born: Its Own Designation of Origin and Vineyards by the SeaAbout 15 kilometres from Barcelona, between the Maresme coast and the Serralada de Marina, Alella is a town…
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The Lleida town where Marc Márquez was born: medieval, with 14th-century walls and bells rung by handWhy does a town in inland Catalonia, with no sea or mountain in sight, end up in conversations…
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The Barcelona Town Where Marc Casadó Started Out: 5,000 Residents and a Step from MontsenySome towns are discovered through a guidebook and others through a name. Sant Pere de Vilamajor, in the…
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The village near Barcelona where Úrsula Corberó grew up: a medieval count’s palace at the gates of the MontsenySome villages are best understood by what they lack: no big hotels, no seafront promenade, no queues to…
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Best beaches in Catalonia: 10 coves and stretches of sand worth the tripWhy does the water in some Catalan coves seem to be a different colour? The answer lies on…
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Best beaches on the Costa Brava: 10 coves you will never forgetPine trees leaning over the water, golden rocks and coastal paths linking one cove to the next. This…
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Best coves on the Costa Dorada: 8 spots worth discoveringWhy is the coast of Tarragona called the Costa Dorada, the "Golden Coast"? One look at the sand…
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Best beaches in Barcelona: 8 stretches of sand to choose from depending on your plansBarcelona has something few European capitals can offer: you step off the metro and you are on the…
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The Lleida village where Carles Puyol was born: split by a river and with a panoramic trainIn the Pyrenees of Lleida there is a village split in two by water. One half on each…
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The farming village in Girona with centuries-old irrigation channels where Susanna Griso found her refuge away from the spotlightA live studio every morning, a running order that changes at the last minute and the pressure of…
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Parador de Lleida: 10 things to do from the former Roser conventOn Cavallers street, in the old town of Lleida, a golden stone facade with two pointed, barred arches…
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Parador de La Seu d’Urgell: 10 Plans Between Cloister and PyreneesIn the old town of La Seu d'Urgell, in the shadow of the cathedral, a building of stone…
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The Girona village where Eva Longoria shot «Land of Women»: castle, casino, festival and vineyardsWhen the lights of a film shoot go out, the place remains. And in the case of Eva…
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The village near Barcelona where Rosalía was born: 16 masías, modernista cava cellars and Montserrat in the backgroundThe villages of the Baix Llobregat are glanced at sideways from the motorway and almost never visited. Sant…
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All-you-can-eat buffets in Barcelona: 6 spots for brunch, rodizio and rollsAn all-you-can-eat buffet promises abundance, but abundance is only worth it if the food is well made. This…