Spain travel guide: 14 destinations

Spain rewards travellers who look beyond one city. OFAQ WORLD covers 14 Spanish destinations: big cities on the mainland, the Basque coast, Andalusia, and islands in both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Each guide maps real places with practical notes, so you can plan day by day.

The largest guides are the cities. Madrid has 100 places, from the Prado and Retiro Park to tapas around Plaza Mayor. Seville (97 places) centres on the Alcázar, the cathedral and Andalusian plazas, Barcelona (96) on named Gaudí works, beaches and markets, and Valencia (88) on the City of Arts, paella and Mediterranean beaches.

Shorter guides pick out the essentials. In Granada it is the Alhambra, the lanes of the Albaicín and sunset at Mirador de San Nicolás; in Malaga, the Alcazaba, Museo Picasso and Gibralfaro castle. In the north, Bilbao has the Guggenheim and the Ribera food market, and San Sebastian has La Concha bay, pintxos in the Parte Vieja and Monte Igueldo views.

For islands, choose between Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza in the Balearics, or Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Lanzarote in the Canaries, with landscapes such as Teide National Park and Timanfaya's volcanic fields.