Hidden places in Spain

A pink-walled medieval town clinging to a river gorge in Aragón.

Ornate Mudéjar towers covered in green and white tiles.

A huge castle along a ridge above a quiet old town near Valencia.

A whitewashed hilltop old town with a blue-domed church.

A royal palace with riverside gardens, south of Madrid.

A white town balanced on the edge of a cliff above a river.

A medieval town entered over a fortified 11th-century bridge.

A whitewashed fishing village on the wild Costa Brava, once home to Dalí.

A whitewashed fishing village with small coves on the Costa Brava.

Hanging houses built over the edge of a cliff above a gorge.

One of the best-preserved medieval old towns in Spain, full of storks and stone towers.

A whitewashed hill village with flower-lined lanes, just above the coast.

A Basque fishing village famous for grilled fish and txakoli wine.

A colourful Basque fishing quarter below a walled old town.

White mountain villages clinging to the slopes of the Sierra Nevada.

Spain's best Roman ruins, including a theatre still used for plays.

A walled old town and castle on a rocky peninsula above the Mediterranean.

A beautifully preserved stone village near the Altamira caves.

A village built into the rock, with houses tucked under huge overhangs.

A lively beach town with a whitewashed old quarter, 40 minutes from Barcelona by train.

A walled medieval town above a sandy bay on the Costa Brava.

A white village below a hilltop castle, above a turquoise reservoir.

A town completely encircled by medieval walls with 88 towers.

Renaissance squares and palaces surrounded by endless olive groves.

A white town split by a deep gorge, joined by a towering stone bridge.

A Roman aqueduct, a cathedral and a castle that looks like a ship's bow.

A semi-desert of eroded clay towers in northern Spain.

A forest 'city' of strange eroded limestone rocks near Cuenca.

A chain of turquoise lakes linked by waterfalls in La Mancha.

Red-orange peaks left behind by a Roman gold mine, among chestnut trees.

Giant red rock towers rising above a village, reached by the Canfranc railway.

Steep river canyons lined with terraced vineyards in Galicia.

A freshwater lagoon among rice fields, the birthplace of paella.

A giant white sand dune and Roman ruins on a wild Atlantic beach.

Volcanic cliffs and wild, near-empty beaches in Europe's driest corner.

A lighthouse on a cape once thought to be the end of the world.

A path carved into the cliffs of a deep gorge in the Picos de Europa.

Wild islands with white sand and clear water off the Galician coast.

Marshes full of flamingos and birds, beside a sandy-street village that looks like the Wild West.

Rice fields, lagoons and flamingos where the Ebro meets the sea.

Strange stacked limestone rocks on a mountain plateau.

Green extinct volcanoes and beech forest around the town of Olot.

A narrow gorge with hanging footbridges, just outside Granada.

Huge caves with giant stalactites, above hidden coves and cliffs.

A deep Pyrenean canyon with waterfalls, ending at a horsetail-shaped cascade.

Jagged limestone peaks, glacial lakes and green valleys in Asturias.

Giant rock arches on a Galician beach, walkable only at low tide.

Mainland Spain's highest mountains, snowy in winter and great for hiking in summer, under an hour from Granada.

Spain's largest protected area, with pine forests, gorges and the source of the Guadalquivir river.

Limestone mountains and fir forests around a white village.

Pine-forested mountains just an hour from Madrid by train.

Europe's only desert, where many classic Westerns were filmed.

A walkway pinned to the walls of a narrow gorge, high above the river.

A monastery tucked into serrated rock peaks near Barcelona.

A palm-lined seafront below a hilltop castle.

A soaring Gothic cathedral on the Camino de Santiago.

One of Europe's oldest cities, almost surrounded by the sea.

Colourful houses along the river below medieval walls.

The home of sherry, flamenco and dancing horses.

A cathedral with walls of stained glass and free tapas with every drink.

Asturias's elegant capital, with pre-Romanesque churches and cider bars.

A walled city known for its pintxos and the running of the bulls.

A golden sandstone university city with one of Spain's finest main squares.

The granite pilgrim city at the end of the Camino.

A Roman amphitheatre right above the Mediterranean.

A grand basilica on the Ebro river and a Moorish palace.

The Guggenheim museum and pintxos bars in a lively old town.

The Mezquita's forest of striped arches and flower-filled patios.

Grand museums, leafy parks and late-night tapas.

A sunny port city with a Moorish fortress, Picasso's birthplace and city beaches.

A shell-shaped bay and an old town packed with pintxos bars.

Orange trees, flamenco and Moorish palaces in the heart of Andalusia.

A hilltop maze of churches, synagogues and mosques wrapped by a river.

Futuristic architecture, a park in an old riverbed and the home of paella.

Gaudí's buildings, a Gothic old town and city beaches.

The Alhambra palace above the white lanes of the Albaicín.