Travel Guides

Most people who visit Ibiza never make it north. They loop between the beaches and the clubs, get a glimpse of Dalt Vila, and fly home thinking they’ve seen the island. They haven’t.

If this is your first time visiting Ibiza, don’t start with the clubs. Start with the salt. Ibizan salt funded the walls you’ll walk through to reach the old city. It drew the Phoenicians to the island’s southern flats around 2,700 years ago and kept trading families fed for centuries after.

Sevilla (or Seville) is one of those cities you arrive at with absurdly high expectations, and somehow it still manages to exceed them. The Alcázar alone could justify the flight. The cathedral is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world. Plaza de España is so jaw-droppingly beautiful it’s stood in for fictional galaxies on screen.

If you’re planning a trip through Andalusia and wondering whether Córdoba deserves a stop, it does. This compact city packs in Roman history, Islamic architecture, flower-filled courtyards, atmospheric lanes and some of southern Spain’s most iconic food, all within a walkable historic centre.

If you’re planning a trip to southern Spain, Granada is one of those cities that completely lives up to the hype. You’ve got the Alhambra watching over the city from above, the Albaicín’s tangle of old streets across the valley, and a historic centre where a cathedral, royal tombs and a former silk bazaar all sit within a short walk of each other.