Spain travel tips

Spain travel health

Required is not recommended: the first is what the border asks about, the second is what a clinic would suggest. Both, for Spain, then the number to dial and what care costs a visitor. Applies to every guide in Spain: Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, Granada, Valencia, Tenerife and 6 more.

Required to enter

Nothing. No vaccination certificate is asked for at the border.

Recommended

  • Routine vaccinations up to date (MMR, tetanus, polio)

Emergency number

112

Care for visitors

Excellent and cheap

EU/EEA and Swiss visitors are treated on the same terms as residents with an EHIC or GHIC card; UK visitors use a GHIC. Everyone else pays, and travel insurance is worth having for the repatriation cover rather than the treatment.

The general rules — clinic timing, water, mosquitoes, insurance — are in travel health tips.

The guides in Spain

aerial view of city buildings during daytimeBarcelonaSpainSun, sea, and Gaudi masterpiecescity scale under blue skyMadridSpainLate nights, great art, and endless tapasbrown concrete building during daytime photoSevilleSpainOrange trees, flamenco, and Moorish palacesAn arched stone doorway framing a view of the white buildings in GranadaGranadaSpainThe last Moorish palace in Europe, with the Sierra Nevada behind it and free tapas belowgray concrete tower beside houseValenciaSpainBeaches, futuristic architecture, and the home of paellaThe green peaks of the Anaga range above the sea, TenerifeTenerifeSpainSpain's highest mountain, with a subtropical winter around its feetThe pine-covered ridges of the Serra de Tramuntana dropping into the sea at Cap de Formentor, MallorcaMallorcaSpainA mountain range, three hundred beaches and a capital most people fly straight pasta view of a city and a lake with boats in the waterSan SebastiánSpainA shell-shaped bay, more Michelin stars per head than almost anywhere, and pintxos eaten standing upaerial photography of white housesMálagaSpainPicasso’s birthplace, a Roman theatre under a Moorish fort, and three hundred days of sunEs Vedrà and Es Vedranell standing off the south-west coast — Ibiza, SpainIbizaSpainThe island the clubs made famous, with a walled Renaissance town and a quiet north almost nobody seeswhite and brown concrete buildingCórdobaSpainA mosque with a cathedral built inside it, and courtyards full of flowers in a city that was once the largest in Europegray concrete building near body of water during daytimeBilbaoSpainA steel city that rebuilt itself around a titanium museum, and eats better than almost anywhere in Europe