Despite being one of the most visited cities in Spain, Palma de Mallorca is still an unknown quantity to many tourists. Beyond its coves and crystal clear waters, this city has one of the richest and best cared for historical centres in Spain. There have been several architectural styles that have shaped the city, but there has certainly been one which has imposed: the Gothic. This style was used in the area beyond the time limits that corseted the rest of Europe. Here you can admire Gothic buildings built in the sixteenth century. The Cathedral and its famous rose window, nicknamed the Eye of the Gothic, are the most emblematic. Other examples are found in the market, numerous castles

A stroll through the most representative monuments of Cáceres will not last more than 10 km, but this distance we will be enough go through 25,000 years of history (and prehistory). This is the age of the Matravieso Cave, a palaeolithic enclave that forms part of the city. It was discovered in the 1950s in a large chalk operation. Remains of bodies, ceramics and cave wall art highlight the value of this grotto as compared with the neighbouring Cueva de Santa Ana and El Conejar. A leap in history brings us to the Norba Caesarina, the name with which the Romans baptised this area. In the outskirts of the city, in Aldea Moret, we can find the last remains of this civilisation, watchto

Rarely do humans modify nature to get something more beautiful than there was before. But this is something that has happened in this place used by the ancient Romans. "These Romans are crazy", a phrase made popular by Uderzo and Goscinny in their great Asterix comics is funny, but not too close to reality. Otherwise, if the Romans were crazy, what great madness! When they reached the Médulas, in the province of León in northern Spain, they found that its mountains hid the most precious of treasures of the time: gold. Unqualified but skilful engineers, the Romans managed to pass litres and litres of water from the river inside Cape mountains, piercing them to provide them with t

  Do witches exist? What about their magic powers and their spells?    The truth is only known to history, but there is a place in Spain that sheds some light on the mystery. Virtually on the border with France, the village of Zugarramurdi in Navarre (in the north of the peninsula) has been witness to one of the most enigmatic chapters of the past.    The story says that the enormous caves around the village were the scene of witchcraft meetings during the 17th century. People talk of rituals in which men and women lit bonfires, danced and drank drinks with hallucinogenic effects. These meetings took the name of Akelarres (‘aker’ =

    They call it the city of the three lies because Santillana del Mar is neither a saint, nor flat, nor is by the sea. What Santillana (in Cantabria) does have is an admirable medieval historical quarter raised between cobbled streets and the “Sistine chapel” of quaternary art. This is the name given to Altamira Cave, one of the most important remains of rupestrian art on the planet.   Declared Heritage of Mankind and defined as the most extraordinary representation of Palaeolithic art, the dome of the cave represents animals and figures of hunters whose impact has reached the most contemporary art. The philosopher and Spanish writer Mig