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Madrid to Barcelona
in photographs.

A wide view across a city of terracotta rooftops under a flat grey sky, aerials and roof terraces below and distant towers on the skyline — MadridThe roofs run on until the weather stops them.

City rooftops catching low orange sun beneath a wide bank of cloud, a church dome and spire among them and towers on the far skyline — MadridThe sun found the gap under the cloud and spent it all on the roofs.

A night view between two tall buildings to a lit cinema front with CALLAO in vertical letters, the city's lights running to the horizon behind — MadridOne vertical sign, doing the lighting for the whole street.

The dark interior of a Gothic cathedral, massive columns and pointed arches receding toward lit stained-glass windows — MadridBuilt dark, so the windows have something to do.

Gothic stone vaults lit warm from below, with a rose window and tall lancet windows glowing violet in the wall beneath — MadridThe vaults hold the warm light; the glass keeps the cold.

A warm ochre building facade lit gold by low evening sun, a person standing out on one of the wrought-iron balconies — MadridOne balcony occupied, at exactly the right hour.

A domed cathedral standing in silhouette against a sky burning orange and pink, lamps lit in the plaza below and people crossing it — MadridEveryone in the plaza turned the same way at once.

A view over the bare and evergreen treetops of a large park to low city blocks, a pale dome among them and a line of mountains on the horizon — MadridThe city stops, and then the sierra starts.

A grand arcaded plaza floodlit at night, its tower and long facade reflected in a canal, a ceramic-tiled balustrade curving across the foreground — SevilleFloodlit and empty, which is the trade for going late.

A painted blue and yellow ceramic urn on a tiled balustrade at night, beside a flight of steps and a lamp post, a tiled facade rising behind — SevilleEven the handrail is glazed and painted.

A narrow street of pink and ochre houses with an iron lantern bracketed to a wall, an ornate baroque bell tower closing the far end — SevilleEvery street here is aimed at a tower.

A tall square bell tower of pale stone and brick tracery photographed steeply from below against a blue sky, an ornate street lamp and dark foliage at the edge of the frame — SevilleYou lean back far enough to lose the street entirely.

Ribbed Gothic vaults lit gold and silver from below, an ornate organ with ranks of horizontal pipes standing between the piers — SevilleGold on one vault, silver on the next, and the organ aimed down the middle.

A city of white roofs and a cathedral's pinnacled parapets seen from high up through a scratched, dusty pane of glass — SevilleThe view from the top arrives through glass nobody has cleaned.

The photographer's long shadow cast on a stone floor washed with green, pink and blue light from stained glass, their shoes at the bottom of the frame — SevilleYou stand in the window whether you meant to or not.

An ornate brick corner building set with blue-and-white tiled panels, a glazed balcony and a tiled turret dome, against a deep blue sky — SevilleBrick, tile and a turret, on a corner that only needed a building.

A bright yellow courtyard with arches, tiled dado and potted plants, seen through the dense scrollwork of a tall wrought-iron gate — SevilleThe courtyards are all behind gates, and the gates are all open enough to look.

A narrow residential courtyard planted with irises between lamp posts, ringed by white apartment blocks with yellow-trimmed balconies — SevilleA garden in the gap the balconies left.

A yellow-fronted tattoo parlour with hand-painted gold lettering reading Tatuajes across its windows — ValenciaHand-painted signage, doing more work than most shopfronts.

A long flat beach with surf breaking along a curving shoreline under heavy grey and white cloud, a few distant figures walking the sand — ValenciaMiles of it, and a handful of people out.

A many-arched stone bridge seen through the trunks of tall palms and pines growing in the sunken parkland beneath it — ValenciaThe river left, and the park moved in under the bridges.

A cream apartment building with carved stonework and rows of iron balconies, bare plane trees in front and people on the pavement below — ValenciaBare branches, in front of a facade that does not need the help.

A bakery window display of filled and glazed pastries laid out in rows, each group named on a small handwritten card — ValenciaSeven kinds, all handwritten, none of them in English.

A tall glass of red vermouth with a striped straw and a single croqueta in a small bowl on a metal cafe table, a tree-lined plaza of red chairs behind — BarcelonaOne vermouth, one croqueta, and the plaza doing the rest.

A rooftop sign reading Hotel Suizo above a pale apartment block, lit gold by low sun under a sky of small clouds — BarcelonaThe sign catches the sun a while after the street loses it.

A corridor with an ornate coffered ceiling and a long mural in bright blues and pinks, a neon sign reading eat better live longer — BarcelonaAn old ceiling and a very new wall.

A dark empty beach at night, the lit sail-shaped silhouette of a seafront hotel standing at the far end of the sand — BarcelonaThe beach empties and the hotel keeps its lights on.

A white plaster ceiling swirling in a spiral around a crystal chandelier, ornate stained-glass doors below — BarcelonaThe ceiling turns around the light fitting.

A room with bone-like stone columns and a wall of wavy glazing set with blue circular panes, visitors standing talking at the windows — BarcelonaThe blue is strongest at the top, where the light is.

The ornate stone facade and spires of a large basilica photographed steeply from below against a deep blue evening sky — BarcelonaThere is no distance at which it fits in the frame.

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Field notes, route plans, and photographs from Sean Higgins.

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