Spain travel tips

12 guides in Spain — when to go, how to get around, which ATMs not to use, and what a fair price looks like.

aerial view of city buildings during daytime

BarcelonaSpainSun, sea, and Gaudi masterpieces

city scale under blue sky

MadridSpainLate nights, great art, and endless tapas

brown concrete building during daytime photo

SevilleSpainOrange trees, flamenco, and Moorish palaces

An arched stone doorway framing a view of the white buildings in Granada

GranadaSpainThe last Moorish palace in Europe, with the Sierra Nevada behind it and free tapas below

gray concrete tower beside house

ValenciaSpainBeaches, futuristic architecture, and the home of paella

The green peaks of the Anaga range above the sea, Tenerife

TenerifeSpainSpain's highest mountain, with a subtropical winter around its feet

The pine-covered ridges of the Serra de Tramuntana dropping into the sea at Cap de Formentor, Mallorca

MallorcaSpainA mountain range, three hundred beaches and a capital most people fly straight past

a view of a city and a lake with boats in the water

San SebastiánSpainA shell-shaped bay, more Michelin stars per head than almost anywhere, and pintxos eaten standing up

aerial photography of white houses

MálagaSpainPicasso’s birthplace, a Roman theatre under a Moorish fort, and three hundred days of sun

Es Vedrà and Es Vedranell standing off the south-west coast — Ibiza, Spain

IbizaSpainThe island the clubs made famous, with a walled Renaissance town and a quiet north almost nobody sees

white and brown concrete building

CórdobaSpainA mosque with a cathedral built inside it, and courtyards full of flowers in a city that was once the largest in Europe

gray concrete building near body of water during daytime

BilbaoSpainA steel city that rebuilt itself around a titanium museum, and eats better than almost anywhere in Europe