The Most Beautiful Churches in Spain

Ávila's great Romanesque basilica, dedicated to the martyred siblings Vincent, Sabina and Christeta, is a World Heritage Site and one of the finest examples of the style in Spain.

A Baroque church beside the Ebro that houses the jasper column venerated as the first Marian shrine in Christendom, along with Damián Forment's superb Renaissance altarpiece.

A Dominican convent church built between 1445 and 1616, where Philip II and Philip IV were baptised, in the heart of Valladolid's old royal quarter.

A jewel of Spanish Romanesque, San Isidoro in León houses a Royal Pantheon with original mural paintings and capitals that make it a unique piece of its era.

Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece, a stone forest of a temple under construction since 1882 that is now the tallest church in the world and the crowning jewel of Catalan Modernisme.

A Baroque sanctuary in Muxía, facing the rocks that legend identifies as the Virgin's stone boat, and the Atlantic finishing point for many pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago.