Sagrada Família and Sant Pau · Casa Batlló and La Pedrera · Park Güell and Gràcia · Gothic Quarter and La Boqueria

The Prado · Retiro Park · Royal Palace and Almudena · Plaza Mayor and San Miguel

The Alhambra · The Albaicín · Cathedral and Royal Chapel · Sacromonte Caves

The Real Alcázar · Cathedral and the Giralda · Plaza de España · Barrio Santa Cruz

Domènech i Montaner's concert hall of glass and mosaic, and his garden-city hospital.

The Giralda, the largest Gothic cathedral and the Mudéjar Alcázar, with the Archive of the Indies beside them.

The late Gothic Silk Exchange of 1482, with its twisted columns, in a city that grew rich on trade.

The Nasrid palaces and fortress above Granada, with the Generalife gardens and the Albayzín.

Guests sleep inside the Alhambra complex itself, in a former Nasrid palace turned Franciscan convent, with Baroque cloister galleries and the decorated mirador room where Queen Isabella was first buried.

Neo-Mudéjar hotel commissioned by Alfonso XIII and opened in 1929 for the Ibero-American Exposition, beside the Alcázar and the cathedral. Its Royal Suite is kept for visiting royalty.

A hotel above Xarraca Bay on Ibiza's north tip, with cave suites, a recording studio, an organic farm and BREEAM certification, said to be the first in the Balearics.

A 100-room Ian Schrager hotel beside the Picasso Museum and the Gothic cathedral, next to the Santa Caterina market. The Roof terrace has a plunge pool and sea views.

Ricardo Bofill's sail-shaped tower, known locally as Hotel Vela, opened in 2009 on reclaimed land at the end of Barceloneta beach. It has a rooftop bar and indoor and outdoor pools.