Ronda, split by the Tajo gorge and spanned by the Puente Nuevo of 1793, with Arab baths, a water mine cut inside the rock and one of the oldest bullrings in Spain.
The capital of Andalucia: the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, the Giralda, the Alcazar that is still a working royal palace, and a city centre closed to traffic since 2006.
Granada, capital of the last Muslim-ruled state in Iberia, holds the Alhambra, the Royal Chapel where Isabella and Ferdinand are buried, and the Albaicin on the hill opposite.
Holy Week in Andalucia commemorates the Passion and took its modern shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A guide to the brotherhoods, the terms, the hood and the practicalities.
Malaga is no longer just the airport: a Roman theatre, the Alcazaba and the Gibralfaro, six museums opened since 2003, and a cathedral whose roof is finally being built.
Cordoba beyond the Mezquita: the Alcazar of the Christian Monarchs, the old Jewish quarter and its synagogue, the Roman bridge, and Medina Azahara outside the city.
The classical riding school at Jerez and its performance of How the Andalusian Horses Dance, which runs on set days rather than daily, with the carriage museum and the sherry town around it.
The Leaning Tower is Pisa cathedral's bell tower, not a building beside it. Siena's cathedral is thirteenth-century marble, not nine-century brick. The frescoes at Monte Oliveto Maggiore are Signorelli's and Sodoma's. And Tuscany has eight World Heritage inscriptions.
A walkable town of 117 buildings reproduced from across Spain, built for the 1929 exposition on Montjuic and never demolished, with craft workshops, an art museum and a flamenco tablao.
The gateway to the 1888 Universal Exhibition, not a military arch. Its neo-Mudejar brickwork is a nineteenth-century revival, and its friezes are about welcoming visitors.
Catalonia's national art museum on Montjuic, holding the largest collection of Romanesque mural painting anywhere. An expansion will close part of it from 2027.
The hill above the port: the castle, the Magic Fountain, the MNAC, the Miro foundation, the Mies pavilion, the Olympic ring and the gardens, with three separate cable-hauled ways up.