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From Andalucía's whitewashed pueblos blancos to a Aragonese pink sandstone town and a Moorish fortress above the Canary Islands

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Spain canters through every epoch and architectural style to deliver some of Europe’s most beautiful backdrops, including the Mediterranean views of Andalucía’s pueblos blancos, or white towns, the cliff-hugging hill towns of Mallorca, and hamlets in the shadow of Mt Teide on Tenerife.

This lovely, feisty, sun-scorched land rewards travelers willing to venture beyond its major cities, revealing medieval time capsules, Moorish fortress towns and Modernist mansion-lined lanes scattered across nearly every region of the country.