Walk with peacocks on the ramparts of Lisbon's Moorish fortress, explore the maze-like streets of the Alfama district, and join the nightly throngs passing between the marinas and restaurants of the rescued waterfront and watch from many overlooks as sunset turns the ancient city pink. In appearance, the city bears a resemblance to San Francisco, for Lisbon is at the edge of an ocean, was built on seven hills traversed by antique trams, and boasts a dramatic red-orange suspension bridge spanning the harbor.

Catalonia's capital Barcelona is Spain's second largest city with only Madrid being larger. Barcelona has numerous festivals year round and has an architecture that is gothic and modern as well as trendy bars, restaurants, and clubs. The city is cradled in a great half bowl, open to the Mediterranean on one side, but contained by a brooding hill called Montjuic at the harbor's southwest edge and backed up to the north by a massif dominated by Tibidabo's peak. Apart from church steeples and a few misguided efforts at skyscraper modernity, most of man-made Barcelona tops out at under eight stories. It rises gently from