Spain’s northwest border is the Bay of Biscay. To the east and southeast is the Mediterranean, and to the southwest, past Gibraltar, is the Atlantic Ocean. In addition to the Spanish mainland, the Balearic Islands (notably Ibiza, Mallorca, and Menorca), in the Mediterranean, belong to ...
there are 11 national parks in mainland Spain (including the now-renamed Parque Nacional Picos de Europa), four in theCanary Islandsand one in the Balearics, which together protect over 4000 sq km of wild terrain and welcome over 15 million visitors each year. Until the Sierra de las Nieves...