Moià

In the Barcelona province of Cataluña, L'Estany is built around one of Catalonia's great Romanesque monasteries, its 72 sculpted cloister capitals and stone village streets drawing visitors to a place shaped by nearly a thousand years of monastic life.

Perched on a cold Catalan hilltop in Barcelona province, Castellterçol carries more than eleven centuries of history, from its ninth-century castle origins to Bourbon skirmishes fought in its streets.

A walled Catalan town whose single surviving medieval gateway, baroque church, and castle ruins trace eight centuries of baronial and later county history in the hills of Barcelona province.

A castle-crowned village on the Llobregat river in Barcelona province, where a Romanesque church, medieval fortifications, and a natural waterfall carved from limestone have stood since the tenth century.

A small Catalan town in Barcelona province where a Renaissance town hall, a late Gothic church, and a medieval castle survive alongside old farmhouses still bearing Gothic windows and stone lintels.

A small Catalan village whose Romanesque church, ruined castle, and medieval streetscape have survived intact at the edge of the Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac natural park.

The ancient capital of the Osona region, Vic carries two thousand years of continuous history, from an Iberian tribal centre and Roman temple to a medieval cathedral city whose seminary shaped the literary revival of Catalonia.

A Roman spa town in Barcelona province where 74°C thermal waters have drawn visitors since antiquity, preserving the best-surviving Roman baths on the Iberian Peninsula.

A Catalan market town in Barcelona province, twice burned to the ground during the War of Spanish Succession and rebuilt across the hills of the Lluçanès region.