Spain has more than 38,000 documented abandoned places — but if you could only visit five, which would they be? This selection gathers the most essential abandoned sites in Spain:...

Portugal, a country with a rich history and impressive architecture, is not only known for its castles and vibrant cities but also for its abandoned places that tell forgotten stories....

Salamanca has two heritages in permanent tension: that of the golden university city, with its Baroque Plaza Mayor and Plateresque facades that tourism has made an image of Spain, and...

Girona has the most varied urbex in Catalonia after Barcelona — a province that in less than 100 kilometers long combines the Pyrenees with collections of abandoned medieval farmhouses, the...

Spain has thousands of abandoned houses — from the Indian mansions on the Cantabrian coast to the moss-covered Galician pazos, the modernist villas of the Mediterranean with tiles still on...

Tenerife is not just volcanoes and sun tourism — it is also an island with a history of colonial hydraulic infrastructure, hotels from the golden age of mass tourism closed...

Tarragona has the most mystical urbex in Catalonia — a province where abandoned villages in the Prades mountains accumulate decades of paranormal legends, the Templar lordships of Montmell have been...

Granada has two parallel stories: that of the Alhambra and the Nasrid palaces, which tourism has turned into a worldwide brand image, and that of the cortijos, mines, and towns...

Bilbao and the Basque Country have the densest industrial urbex in Spain — the Left Bank of the Nervión was for a century the industrial heart of the Iberian Peninsula,...

Burgos is the cradle of Castile — the province that gave its name to a kingdom, built one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in Europe, and saw the birth of...

Murcia has the densest military urbex on the Spanish coast — the artillery batteries that defended the Cartagena Arsenal for a century, the mining tunnels of Portmán where the carts...

Málaga has the most diverse urbex in Andalusia — the Costa del Sol with its half-built hotels abandoned due to the real estate crisis, the Ronda mountain range with its...