Majestic and grand palaces, sun-drenched Mediterranean beaches, the signature signature of Flamenco dancers' heels, the silence of pilgrims entering the church in Santiago de Compostela after weeks walk El Camino. You can find the soul of Spain in tourist attractions like these, which represent the country's tumultuous history, rich culture and enchanting natural beauty. Plan your visit and find fun things to do with our list of the Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Spain.
1 Plaza de España và Parque de María Luisa, Seville
Plaza de Espana in Seville (Image: internet)
Built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition to celebrate the regions of Spain, Plaza de España is an impressive semicircular pavilion surrounded by colonnades. Beautifully colored tiles representing each province of Spain are placed overlooking the long swimming pool, crossed by bridges. This is a popular place to visit for a stroll or paddle around the pool and under the bridges.
Plaza de España is the focal point of the large Parque de María Luisa, with gardens, lawns and a half-mile shaded boardwalk stretching along the river across from central Seville. You can rent a bicycle or go by horse-drawn carriage. Any day is busy, on Sunday the park is filled with families.
The best way to see the giant trees, flower beds, pools, gazebos and man-made rock formations with waterfalls is to stroll through the park, following the side paths into the fenced gardens. At the end of the park you'll find a small but rich archeology museum with Visigoth gem-encrusted crosses and ancient gold work.
2 Alhambra Gardens and Generalife, Granada
The interesting palace of the Moorish people will make you surprised (Image: internet)
No matter how many articles you read or see in pictures of Granada's Alhambra palaces, this delightful Moorish palace will leave you in awe. The royal palace of the Nasrid dynasty was the artistic highlight of Spain's Islamic period, when Al-Andalus - as they called Andalucía - represented the epitome of culture and civilization in Europe. the Middle Ages.
The Alhambra complex includes a number of buildings, towers, walls, gardens, and mosques, but it is these indescribably intricate rock carvings, splendid carvings, magnificent tiled ceilings , the graceful arches and serene courtyards of Nasrid palace will haunt your dreams.
That said, the adjoining palace built for Emperor Charles V, even in its unfinished state, is the finest example of High Renaissance architecture in Spain. And the Generalife's terraced gardens offer visitors a peaceful respite from the grandeur and stunning views back to the rest of the Alhambra.
3 Barcelona's Sagrada Familia and Gaudi Sites
Magical and strange buildings (Image: internet)
Antoni Gaudi took the architectural style known as Art Nouveau one step further, even, some argue, into absurdity. The fanciful and eerie buildings he created in Barcelona have become landmarks, the signature attraction of this Catalan city.
First of all is the Sagrada Família church, officially the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família or the Church of the Holy Family of the Atonement. One of Europe's most unique churches, it's also unfinished, so as you look down from its tower you can see work in progress below.
You may in vain search for absolutely straight lines in Gaudi's Casa Milà, his last and most famous secular work; it's more of a sculpture than a functional building. Be sure to climb to its roof - the chimneys are said to have inspired Darth Vader images from Star Wars.
New in 2020, the wonderful Casa Batlló, with its masked balcony and undulating facade, now features a vivid "10D Experience", using augmented reality, projection, binaural audio, motion sensors animations and more than 1,000 screens to take visitors on a journey into the mind and genius of Antoni Gaudi.
Parc Güell overlooks the city from a hillside, and the setting and gardens are surrounded by wondrous creatures – iguanas, fish, octopuses – and designed with brightly colored ceramic mosaics. A fanciful high-rise near the entrance is covered mostly with colored ceramics. Unlike most buildings, Gaudi attracts even children and adults who are not interested in architecture, for one simple reason - they are simply enjoyable to look at.
4 Grand Mosque in Cordoba (Mezquita)
The streets are narrow and winding; small square; and low whitewashed houses with beautiful verandas (Image: internet)
Once the main mosque of the Islamic West and still known as Mezquita, Cordoba's mosque is one of the largest in the world and the finest achievement of Moorish architecture in Spain. Dental. Despite subsequent changes that cut out its center to build a Catholic church at its centre, the Grand Mosque ranks alongside the Alhambra in Granada as one of the two finest examples. of Islamic art and architecture in Western Europe.
Building materials from Roman and Visigothic buildings were used in its construction, beginning in 785, and by 1000 it had grown to its present size, the prayer hall with no less than ten nine aisles. No matter where you stand or which direction you look, its columns and round Moorish arches line up in symmetrical patterns.
The streets are narrow and winding; small square; and low whitewashed houses with beautiful verandas visible from the street fill the quaint Juderia surrounding the mosque, a Moorish atmosphere inherited from its past.
5 Prado và Paseo del Artes, Madrid
This place is known as El Paseo del Arte - Avenue of the Arts (Image: internet)
Prado alone ranks with the world's top art museums for the richness of its collections. But add the Reina Sofia National Art Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and the CaixaForum, along Madrid's mile-long tree-lined boulevard that is home to the world's highest concentration of priceless art treasures. No wonder this place is known as El Paseo del Arte - Avenue of the Arts.
After the 2007 expansion, doubling the exhibition space, Prado added another 12 galleries in 2009 to house a collection of works by Goya and other late 19th-century artists. Prado has the largest collection of Spanish art in the world, an impressive continuation from 12th-century medieval works through the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, and is particularly noted for its works from the Spanish Golden Age by El Greco, Velazquez, and Goya.
But its wealth is not all Spanish; other highlights are medieval murals and murals, paintings by Flemish and Dutch artists (be sure to check out Hieronymous Bosch's fantasy world and works by Rubens and Brueghel) , and Italian art (Botticelli, Raphael, Correggio, Titian and Tintoretto).
Highlights of Reina Sofia's 20,000 impressive works are Picasso's Guernica and works by Miró, Dalí, Dubuffet, Braque, Serra, Calder and Magritte.
6 San Lorenzo de El Escorial
San Lorenzo de El Escorial là một điểm tham quan đáng kinh ngạc (Ảnh: internet)
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, about 45 kilometers northwest of Madrid, was the summer home of the Spanish kings, and in 1563 work was started here on a huge complex, including including a monastery, a church, a royal palace, a mausoleum, a library and a museum, all conceived as a monument to Philip II and his reign.
The result is an astonishing collection of attractions, built around 16 courtyards, its rooms and structures connected by 16 kilometers of corridors. At its core is the church, the highlight being Herrera's 30-meter-high balustrade, made of jasper and red marble and accessed by a flight of 17 stairs.
Along with Tibaldi's vaulted ceilings and frescoes in the outer convent rooms below, the abbey's highlights are the Panteón de los Reyes (Baroque burial vaults of Spanish kings) and the library. convent , a large room also decorated with frescoes by Tibaldi .
In the palace, be sure to check out the Bourbon Suite, where Charles IV's state apartments are decorated with rare furniture and 338 tapestries. Beyond are Philip II's art-filled private apartments. The Image Gallery below has a large collection of beautiful paintings, including works by Hieronymus Bosch, Albrecht Dürer, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Velázquez and El Greco.
7 Church of Seville and Alcazar
La Giralda Tower, Seville Cathedral and Alcazar combine to form a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Image: internet)
La Giralda Tower, Seville Cathedral and Alcazar combine to form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tower is a sub-tower, a "masterpiece of Almohad architecture," according to UNESCO. The church has a larger interior space than St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the main altar is 37 meters high of statues carved entirely in gold.
Christopher Columbus' monumental tomb is supported by a quartet of larger-than-life figures. La Giralda, the symbol of Seville, began life as a minaret and is all that remains of the city's Grand Mosque, demolished for the construction of the cathedral.
Alcazar opposition was begun by the Moors in 712 and continued after the Christian reconquest by King Pedro in the 1300s in the ornate neo-Moorish style known as the Mudejar. The rooms and salons are stunningly beautiful, and the gardens are a joy to stroll, lined with fragrant orange and lemon trees. Adjacent to the east is Santa Cruz, the former Juderia (Jewish Quarter), a neighborhood of whitewashed houses, iron balconies, and flower-filled courtyards.
8 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
There are no photos that fully describe the unique beauty of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
You really have to see this building to believe it - no photo has captured the unique beauty of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, so vividly that they seem ready to take off. American architect Frank Gehry used limestone blocks and undulating titanium plates to popularize the concept of modern architecture.
He was so radically successful that two new terms emerged from it: the "Bilbao effect" - the ability of a city to turn its destiny around by building a world-class building - and "architectural tourism", the entire tourism industry segment revolves around landmarks of contemporary architecture. Inside the museum are traveling exhibitions and rotating displays of its own modern art collections.
9 Church of Santiago de Compostela
The magnificent church of Santiago (St. James) was built to keep and honor the relics of the saint (Image: internet)
The magnificent Church of Santiago (St. James) was built to house and honor the saint's relics, and it has been the target of pilgrims since the Middle Ages, their culmination being complete perfection. the famous Camino de Santiago.
One of the outstanding monuments of Early Romanesque architecture, the church was built between 1060 and 1211, and despite the exterior Baroque transformation of the 16th-18th centuries, the interior interior still in the purest primitive Romanesque style.
You'll see both of these phases unfold as you enter the western front, past one of Spain's most impressive church facades. Step inside to face the Pórtico de la Gloria, part of the old west facade now concealed by an 18th-century facade. This three-pointed doorway is one of the largest and most magnificent collections. of Romanesque sculpture in the world.
On either side, narrow stairs lead up behind the statue so pilgrims can kiss the Apostle's cloak - culminating in their pilgrimage. In a crypt under the altar, the Apostle's remains were placed in a silver coffin.
The focal point of the interior is the ornate Capilla Mayor, built above the Apostle's tomb. In the center of the high altar of jasper, alabaster and silver is a 13th-century wooden statue of Than Tong, richly decorated with precious metals and precious stones.
10 Plaza Mayor, Madrid
The beating heart of Spain's vibrant capital city, Plaza Mayor (Image: internet)
Nhịp tim đập rộn ràng của thành phố thủ đô sôi động của Tây Ban Nha, Plaza Mayor đã đóng một phần quan trọng trong cuộc sống Madrid kể từ thế kỷ 16, khi Philip II giao nhiệm vụ thiết kế nó cho kiến trúc sư yêu thích của ông Juan de Herrera, người xây dựng Escorial.
Nó đã từng là sân khấu cho các sự kiện nghi lễ - tuyên bố của một vị vua mới, phong thánh, thiêu rụi những kẻ dị giáo - và giải trí công cộng như các giải đấu hiệp sĩ và đấu bò tót. Các quán cà phê vươn ra vỉa hè lát đá dành riêng cho người đi bộ và các nhà hàng rợp bóng mát dưới những mái vòm là phòng khách của Madrid, những địa điểm gặp gỡ nổi tiếng của Madrileños cũng như khách du lịch.
