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A Coruña
A Coruña (Corunna) is an Atlantic port city in Galicia, northwest Spain, founded as the Roman port of Brigantium. Distinguished by the Tower of Hercules, Spain's highest-density Galician city, the Punta Langosteira outer port, and ties to Inditex in neighboring Arteixo.
Albacete
Albacete (Al-Basīṭ, 'the plain') is the capital of the province of Albacete in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain; 173,206 inhabitants (2023). Known for its medieval Feria, 1710 fair privilege, 1855 railway, knife-making industry, and International Brigades civil-war headquarters.
Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares, a city of 203,208 (2025) in the Community of Madrid 30 km from Madrid; Roman Complutum, site of the world's first planned university city, UNESCO World Heritage since 1998 and Cervantes's birthplace.
Alcobendas
Alcobendas, city and municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain, north of Madrid; 123,222 residents (2025), 45 km², major business hub with over 16,000 companies and the La Moraleja district.
Alcorcón
Alcorcón is a municipality about 13 km southwest of Madrid in the Community of Madrid, also called part of the Gran Sur. A former Arab-origin pottery and farming town of 1,028 people in 1955, it grew to over 171,000 inhabitants by 2023.
Algeciras
Algeciras (Al-Yazirat Al-Jadra) is a Spanish port city in Cádiz on the Bay of Gibraltar, founded as Moorish Algeciras, destroyed in 1379, refounded after 1704, and home to Spain's leading port with over 100 million tons of traffic.
Alicante
Alicante (Alacant), Mediterranean port city and provincial capital in Spain's Valencian Community; 366,221 inhabitants (2025), EUIPO seat, University of Alicante, Santa Bárbara castle, beaches, Tabarca, and Alicante-Elche airport with 19.95 million passengers.
Almería
Almería (Al-mariyat Bayyana) is a Mediterranean port city in southeastern Spain, founded as a caliphal madina in 955–956, a famed silk port in the 11th century, taken by Alfonso VII in 1147 and by the Catholic Monarchs in 1489.
Badajoz
Badajoz, largest city of Extremadura, Spain, founded 875 by Ibn Marwan, reconquered 1230 by Alfonso IX; record 154,423 inhabitants in 2025, Alcazaba, bastioned walls, mayor Ignacio Gragera.
Badalona
Badalona, coastal city in Barcelonès, Catalonia, Spain, on the Mediterranean about 10 km northeast of Barcelona; over 220,000 inhabitants, Roman colony Baetulo (c. 100 BC), 4.8 km of beaches, industrial heritage, and Joventut basketball club.
Barakaldo
Barakaldo, Basque municipality in Bizkaia on the Nervión estuary near Bilbao; second-largest Bizkaia city, former steel town, home of the Bilbao Exhibition Centre and Zamalanda park.
Barcelona
Barcelona (Barcino), capital of Catalonia and Spain's second city: Roman-founded Mediterranean port, Cerdà's 1859 Eixample grid, industrial hub, and origin of the superblock pedestrianization model.
Benalmádena
Benalmádena is a municipality in Málaga province, Andalusia, southern Spain, on the central Costa del Sol some 20 km southwest of Málaga, with a tourism-dominated economy.
Benidorm
Benidorm, Alicante, Spain: Mediterranean mass-tourism resort founded 1325, reshaped by a 1956 vertical urban plan into Europe's densest skyscraper city and first UNE 178501-certified smart tourism destination.
Bilbao
Bilbao, city in Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain (population 348,089 in 2024). Former industrial port transformed after 1970s deindustrialization, chiefly via the 1997 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Bilbao effect in urban regeneration.
Burgos
Burgos, Castile and León city in northern Spain, capital of the unified kingdom of Castile and León for five centuries; Gothic cathedral (World Heritage), stop on the Camino de Santiago, near Atapuerca, about 176,000-180,000 residents.
Cáceres, Extremadura
Cáceres, Extremadura: Spanish city, capital of Cáceres province, about 96,000 inhabitants, 1,768 km² municipality. Founded as Roman Norba Caesarina (35-34 BC); walled old town, UNESCO World Heritage since 1986.
Cádiz
Cádiz (Gadir, Gades, Qadis) is an Atlantic port city in Andalusia, Spain, founded by Phoenicians from Tyre around the 9th–8th century BC, later a Roman city, site of the 1812 Spanish Constitution, with about 110,000 residents.
Carmona, Spain
Carmona (Seville province, Andalusia) is a historic hilltop town of about 30,400 people, 30 km from Seville, with Roman gates, amphitheater, and the 1st-century BC Roman Necropolis, Spain's oldest site museum (1887).
Cartagena, Spain
Cartagena (Spain), Murcia-region Mediterranean port city founded as Qart-Hadast in 227 BC, Roman Carthago Nova; 222,559 inhabitants in 2026, a leading Spanish industrial port moving 36 million tonnes in 2024, Roman theatre, Punic wall, naval heritage.
Castellon (city)
Castellón de la Plana (Castellón/Castelló), Mediterranean capital of Castellón province, Spain, at the 40th parallel and 0° meridian; founded on the plain in 1252, about 183,700 inhabitants, ceramics-focused port.
Chiclana de la Frontera
Chiclana de la Frontera, town in Cádiz province, Bay of Cádiz, Spain; 90,997 inhabitants (2025); known for Playa de la Barrosa, Novo Sancti Petri, Phoenician Cerro del Castillo site, salt, wine, and tourism.
Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba (Spain): Andalusian provincial capital on the Guadalquivir, 323,262 inhabitants (2025), former Umayyad capital, home of the Mosque-Cathedral and four UNESCO World Heritage listings.
Cornellà de Llobregat
Cornellà de Llobregat, a municipality of Baix Llobregat on the left bank of the Llobregat River in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area; about 92,000 residents, industrial history since the 1819 Canal de la Infanta, home of the Castell de Cornellà and UE Cornellà.
Coslada
Coslada is a densely populated municipality (about 80,500 residents in 2025) in the Este Metropolitano zone of the Community of Madrid, a major logistics hub near Barajas airport whose Metro 7B stations have been closed since July 2024.
Dos Hermanas, Andalusia
Dos Hermanas is a city about 14 km south of Seville in Andalusia, Spain, and the province's second most populous municipality, with 145,143 inhabitants in 2026.
El Ejido, Andalusia
El Ejido (Almería, Andalusia, Spain): municipality in the Poniente Almeriense, capital of Europe's greenhouse agriculture with 12,756 ha under plastic; 93,258 residents in 2026; independent from Dalías since 1982; not the Mexican ejido land system.
El Puerto de Santa María
El Puerto de Santa María, a city in Cádiz province, Andalusia, at the Guadalete mouth in the Bay of Cádiz; 90,242 residents (2025), historic port of Columbus and Juan de la Cosa, sherry bodegas, birthplace of Rafael Alberti.
Elche
Elche (Elx), city in Alicante province, Valencian Community, Spain. Home of the Palmeral palm grove (UNESCO 2000), Misteri d'Elx play (2001), Pusol museum (2009), and Spain's leading footwear industry.
Esplugues de Llobregat
Esplugues de Llobregat: municipality in Baix Llobregat, Barcelona metropolitan area; 4.60 km², about 48,400 inhabitants; documented since 964; known for modernist ceramics heritage (La Rajoleta, Can Tinturé museum).