Curated Itinerary
A September Week in Spain: 10 Heritage Cities
Ten heritage cities in one September loop: modernista Barcelona, Roman Tarragona and the Mudéjar Aljafería of Zaragoza in the north-east; […]
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From Sagrada Família — Barcelona – Virtual Tour 360° to Alhambra – Virtual Tour 360°, in the order we curated them.
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Ten heritage cities in one September loop: modernista Barcelona, Roman Tarragona and the Mudéjar Aljafería of Zaragoza in the north-east; Madrid with the Castilian trio of Segovia, Ávila and Toledo at the centre; then the Andalusian south, from the Mezquita of Córdoba to the Alcázar of Seville and the Alhambra of Granada. It is built around Spain’s autumn Jornadas Europeas de Patrimonio, whose dates each autonomous community fixes for itself. Each stop links to its full entry in the archive; download the GPX or KML for your own navigator.
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Sagrada Família — Barcelona – Virtual Tour 360°
Begun in 1882 and still unfinished, Gaudí's Sagrada Família replaces flying buttresses with tree-like stone columns and remains Barcelona's most singular ongoing building project.
Archaeological Ensemble of Tarraco – Virtual Tour 360°
The most complete ensemble of Roman monuments in Spain and the capital of the most important Roman province in the Iberian Peninsula — Tarraco (modern…
Aljafería Palace – Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon, Zaragoza – Virtual Tour 360°
Built in the 11th century as an Islamic pleasure palace for the Taifa rulers of Zaragoza, the Aljafería later became the seat of the Aragonese monarchy and…
Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro — UNESCO Landscape of Arts and Sciences, Madrid
The great cultural axis of central Madrid — a coherent Enlightenment landscape of world-class museums, royal gardens, and public promenades — UNESCO World…
Historic City of Segovia and its Aqueduct – Virtual Tour 360°
The most spectacular Roman engineering monument in Spain and one of the finest fairytale fortresses in Europe — Segovia, set on a rock spur above the…
Old Town of Ávila
The most complete surviving medieval walled city in Spain and one of the best-preserved fortified cities in Europe — Ávila (founded on a granite plateau at…
Historic City of Toledo – Virtual Tour 360°
The pre-eminent “City of Three Cultures” in Spain and one of the most historically layered cities in Europe — Toledo, set on a granite hill almost entirely…
Historic Centre of Córdoba – Virtual Tour 360°
The most extraordinary palimpsest of civilisations in western Europe — Córdoba contains within a few hundred metres the finest Islamic building in the…
Alcázar of Seville
A medieval royal palace in Seville blending Umayyad citadel, Mudéjar splendor, and Christian architecture—still an official Spanish royal residence…
Alhambra – Virtual Tour 360°
The supreme surviving achievement of Islamic architecture in Europe — the Alhambra of Granada, the palace-fortress of the Nasrid emirs on the Sabika Hill…
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🔒 The walk and the notes are open to everyone on this page. The files to take with you — the stop list as a PDF, and the GPX and KML tracks for your phone — come with a CHO account, and the free one includes them.
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It opens in the Google Maps app with every stop already loaded, in the order we put them in. From there the route is yours: pick how you travel — on foot, by bike, by public transport or by car — change where you start and where you end, drag the stops into a different order, and add places of your own along the way.