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Barcelona to Cádiz
The Best of Spain
Two weeks will allow you to race around the main urban highlights of
the country, taking in a little bit of everything from Barcelona style and
tapas on the seashore in San Sebastián, to Madrid art galleries and fla-
menco in Seville. You can cover this route by car or train but be pre-
pared for a couple of fairly long days of travel.
Barcelona (
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Two days is the absolute minimum time to tick off the highlights of Barcelona. You
should make a beeline straight for Gaudí's extraordinary
La Sagrada Família
, but
also leave time for the same mans
Park Güell
as well as the
Museu Picasso
, the
Barri Gòtic
and the mouth-watering range of restaurants and bars.
BARCELONA PARC NACIONAL DE ORDESA Y MONTE PERDIDO
To Torla
four hours
along the A2 and A22.
Parc Nacional de Ordesa y Monte Perdido (
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The magnificent Pyrenees mountain range, which stand like soldiers between Spain
and France, are full of beautiful, flower-filled valleys and bleak, rocky peaks and es-
carpments, but if we had to pick just one pace in which to break the journey
between Barcelona and San Sebastián it would be the
Parc Nacional de Ordesa y
Monte Perdido
. You should plan on a minimum of at least two nights in and
around the park.
PARC NACIONAL DE ORDESA Y MONTE PERDIDO
SAN SEBASTIÁN
3½ hours
Along the N240 and A15.
San Sebastián (
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Spaniards have known about the delights of the Basque seaside resort of San Se-
bastián for years, but the rest of the world has only just caught on. This city offers
one of the finest urban beaches in Europe, a hedonistic summer lifestyle and is, ac-
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