AllWays Traveller Features

(Annual) 1 to 5 September 2021 Valencia has announced that it will stage its Las Fallas celebrations this September, with last year's event and March 2021's festival cancelled. The festival is held to honour San José and features creations of huge papier-mâché sculptures which are ceremoniously burnt during Nit de la Cremá. The port city of Valenci...

La Gomera, the second-smallest of the main islands in Spain's Canary Island chain, is marked by craggy volcanic mountains crisscrossed with hiking trails. In higher altitudes, dense forests of ferns and moss-covered trees grow in the mists of Garajonay National Park. Toward the coast, the Valle Gran Rey canyon leads past the whitewashed cliffside v...

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...