Category: City insights

Lying in the fertile plain of Guadalquivir river, navigable all the way to its outlet on the Atlantic coast, Seville has played throughout its long history an essential role as a commercial and cultural center in southern Spain. The historical city displays the outstanding monuments granted by the overlapping cultures that have given it its seductive character. The first [...]

The unique history of Granada has bestowed it with an artistic grandeur embracing Islamic palaces and Christian Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque treasures. The city has been formed around the hills, where the old districts in the Albayzín and the magnificent Citadel of the Alhambra were founded, brimming with steep, narrow streets, and marvelous landscapes. Granada [...]

Facing the Mediterranean, Barcelona has throughout its history been wide open to cultural currents and trends from overseas. The second largest city in Spain, with 1.6 million inhabitants, it enjoys its status as one of the world’s major global cities, for its particular dynamism in the fields of culture, foreign investments, tourism or fashion. Its chronicle starts […]

The nerve centre and capital of Spain, Madrid is nothing short of magnificence, a vibrant and creative metropolis with plenty to see and experience.