Mallorca (Majorca), one of Spain's Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, is known for beach resorts, sheltered coves, limestone mountains and Roman and Moorish remains. Capital Palma has the Moorish Almudaina royal palace and 13th-century Santa María Cathedral. Stone-built villages include Pollença, with its art galleries and music festival, and h...

Andalucía's Sierra de las Nieves is to become Spain's 16th national park and the third in the province of Málaga. Sierra de las Nieves has been a natural park since 1989 with half of it a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and it is home to flora and fauna including ibex, roe deer, golden eagles and ancient pinsapos (Spanish fir trees) which date back to the...

Murcia is a university city in southeastern Spain and the capital of a region of the same name. Plaza Cardenal Belluga is the city's architectural showpiece, where the ornate cathedral, with its mash-up of styles from Gothic to baroque. The Regional Park of Sierra Espuña and its surroundings contain Murcia's largest extensions of forest and has bec...

Tenerife's West Coast has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site for cetacean conservation. This makes it the first Whale Heritage area in Europe with the Responsible Watching certification, granted by the World Cetacean Alliance. This highlights the value of the natural resource of the archipelago's coasts. It also encourages the responsible o...

The port city of Valencia lies on Spain's south eastern coast, where the Turia River meets the Mediterranean Sea. It's known for its City of Arts and Sciences, with futuristic structures including a planetarium, an oceanarium and an interactive museum. There are also the 20 kilometres of European Blue Flag status beaches including some within nearb...

The Spanish Canary Islands comprise La Palma, La Gomera, el Hierro, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and Tenerife. The Las Nieves Natural Park in La Palma is known for its waterfall and forest of thousand-year-old trees, which is one of the largest of its kind in the world. The Park has also been held as one of the best places in Spain for th...