Architecture in Spain

Discover 133 places to experience unusual architecture in Spain.

Banyeres de Mariola, Spain

Museo Torre Font Bona

An archaeological museum squeezed into a narrow 15th-century gate tower accessed only by a spiral staircase.

Edificio Mirador

Edificio Mirador

This postmodern apartment block was designed to be a vertical neighborhood.

Dawn on Charles V palace in Alhambra, Granada, Spain.

Muslim Gravestones of the Alhambra

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

Tower of the Storks (center).

Cáceres, Spain

Torre de las Cigüeñas (Tower of the Storks)

The tallest tower in Cáceres's Old Town.

Shrine of Mary Magdalene.

Novelda Shrine of Mary Magdalene

The 20th-century church looks like a rustic version of the Sagrada Familia.

The market at night.

Valencia, Spain

Central Market of Valencia

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

St Michael's Russian Orthodox Church.

St Michael's Russian Orthodox Church

The magnificent sanctuary is Spain's first purpose-built structure of its kind.

The vaulted ceiling.

Torrelavega, Spain

Vaulted Ceiling of Iglesia de la Virgen Grande

This magnificent brick dome was made with an unusual design method.

Llotja de Sant Jordi

This exhibition space designed to look like the skeleton of a whale is hidden underground.

The "circles" part of the fairground.

Albacete, Spain

Albacete Fairgrounds

This uniquely shaped 17th-century structure comes alive in early September.

Castle of Gormaz

This Arab fortress was once the largest citadel in Western Europe.

Lifesize model of Allosaurus with the museum in the backdrop.

Jurassic Museum of Asturias

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

Embedded human bones in the wall.

Cáceres, Spain

Don Alvaro Alley

Fragments of human bones are embedded in the walls of this quaint alley.

Detail of the "bad angels"

Talaván, Spain

Hermitage of Santo Cristo

Disturbing winged beings decorate the walls of this strange abandoned hermitage.

Inside the library.

San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain

Royal Library of San Lorenzo de El Escorial

This influential Renaissance-era library was once the haunt of kings and monks.

The castle with backdrop of the Guadarrama countryside.

Manzanares el Real, Spain

Manzanares el Real Castle

A magnificent, long-abandoned castle built in the wake of the reconquest of Spain.