Places

By Ines Keane There is an old saying that the town is neither holy, nor flat, nor by the sea. […]

By Ines Keane Stone first. Then the nests, big untidy platforms on towers and church tops, and then the narrowness

By Ines Keane Look up in Teruel and the towers do the talking. Brick, patterned, set with glazed ceramic. It

By Isla Quinn Slate. Grey, flat, layered. Then the surprise: the top of the wall is a path, and people

By Ines Keane Wikipedia’s Spanish article gives the square a reason for its colour. The reddish tone of the Plaza

By Ines Keane Most ancient cities are ruins you walk around. Mérida is a town you live in, with the

By Ines Keane Santiago de Compostela is the capital of Galicia, in the north-west of Spain, in the province of

By Ines Keane Córdoba is a city in Andalusia, in southern Spain, and the capital of its province. According to

By Isla Quinn Stone that looks like rope. That is the first thing to know about the main hall of

By Rafe Calder The sources do not agree on when the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca was finished. One says 1729.