Colourful facades of the Old District in Bilbao

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Basque Country

No matter where you’ve just come from, be it the hot, southern plains of Spain or gentle and pristine France, the Basque Country is different. Known to Basques as Euskadi or Euskal Herria (‘the land of Basque Speakers’) and called El Pais Vasco in Spanish, this is where mountain peaks reach for the sky and sublime rocky coves are battered by mighty Atlantic swells. It’s a place that demands exploration beyond the delightful and cosmopolitan main cities of Bilbao, Vitoria and San Sebastián. You travel through the Basque Country always curious, and frequently rewarded.


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View of Cadaqués from the street..Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
View of Cadaqués from the street..Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
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View of Cadaqués from the street. Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

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