Churches & cathedrals in Spain

Façades dedicated to the Nativity and the Passion of Christ, an interior flooded with colours that change through the day, a museum on the basilica's past, present and future, and towers on both façades with views over Barcelona.

A Gothic cloister whose pond is home to 13 white geese, rooftops reached by lift with a view over Barcelona, choir stalls bearing the painted shields of the knights of the Golden Fleece, and Bartolomé Bermejo's Pietà in the Chapter Hall.

La Moreneta, a 12th-century Romanesque carving of Our Lady enthroned high in the basilica apse; the Escolania boys' choir, which accompanies the basilica's ceremonies and prayers; a museum that runs from an Egyptian sarcophagus to El Greco, Caravaggio and Picasso; and a massif of rock needles with 1,250 plant species.

The mosque of Abd al-Rahman I, enlarged by Abd al-Rahman II, Al-Hakam II and Almanzor, with the Gothic nave and the cathedral's transept and tower raised inside it, and the Patio de los Naranjos.