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Estepona
Estepona is a town and municipality in Málaga province, Andalusia, on the western Costa del Sol; founded as Estebbuna in the 10th century and independent from Marbella in 1729, it had 78,413 residents in 2024 and a tourism-centered economy.
Fuengirola
Fuengirola, a Costa del Sol municipality in Málaga province, Spain; also Roman Suel, Andalusi Sohail. About 84,857 inhabitants (2025), 8 km of Blue Flag beaches, Sohail Castle, and a mass-tourism economy.
Fuenlabrada
Fuenlabrada, municipality in the southern Madrid metropolitan area, Community of Spain. Former 12th-century Castilian repopulation village; grew from 2,908 inhabitants in 1960 to about 190,000, an industrial and services city with Hospital de Fuenlabrada and Rey Juan Carlos University.
Gandia
Gandia (Gandía), capital of La Safor county in Valencia province, Spain; Mediterranean ducal city with the Borja Ducal Palace, five kilometres of beaches, 83,135 inhabitants in 2025, and strong tourism and industrial growth.
Getafe
Getafe, a city 12-14 km south of Madrid, Spain, founded in 1326 on the Madrid-Toledo royal road; cradle of Spanish aviation, industrial hub, seat of Universidad Carlos III and the Diocese of Getafe, about 190,000 inhabitants.
Gijón
Gijón (Xixón) is the largest city of Asturias, Spain, on the Cantabrian Sea's Costa Verde, population 259,867. Roman origins at Campa Torres and Cimavilla, industrial port El Musel, beaches San Lorenzo and Poniente, major tourism economy.
Girona
Girona, capital of its province in northeastern Catalonia, Spain, stands at the confluence of the Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers with the Ter. Founded as Roman Gerunda, county seat since 785, nicknamed "the key of the kingdom".
Granada
Granada, Andalusian city in southeastern Spain, capital of its province; last Nasrid Muslim kingdom, fell 2 January 1492. Known for the Alhambra, Albaicín, tourism, and overtourism disputes.
Guernica
Guernica (Basque Gernika; official name Gernika-Lumo) is a Bizkaia town of about 17,000, seat of the Basque assemblies under the Tree of Gernika, bombed in 1937 and namesake of Picasso's painting.
Jaca
Jaca is a Pyrenean town in Huesca, Aragon, capital of La Jacetania; first capital of the Kingdom of Aragon from 1077, home to the Romanesque cathedral of San Pedro and the pentagonal 16th-century Ciudadela fortress.
Jaén, Andalusia
Jaén (Jayyān, جيّان) is the capital of Jaén province in Andalusia, Spain, the world olive-oil capital with 112,235 city residents (2025). Known for its Vandelvira cathedral, Santa Catalina castle, and nearby UNESCO towns Úbeda and Baeza.
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, second-largest city of Catalonia in the Barcelona metropolitan area; about 293,000 residents on roughly 12.5 km², city title granted 1925, densest zone la Florida at 88,677 inhabitants/km².
La Línea de la Concepción
La Línea de la Concepción is a Spanish city in Cádiz, Andalusia, on the isthmus bordering Gibraltar. Founded 1870 from San Roque, population about 65,000, economy tied to Gibraltar; its border fence, La Verja, was removed in July 2026 under an EU-UK treaty.
Las Palmas
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, co-capital of the Canary Islands with Santa Cruz de Tenerife, was founded in 1478 by Juan Rejón. Largest Canarian city (381,868 residents in 2025), home of the Puerto de La Luz and heavily dependent on seawater desalination.
Las Rozas de Madrid
Las Rozas de Madrid, municipality in the western metropolitan area of the Community of Madrid, ~99,579 inhabitants (2025), 19 km from Madrid; shopping tourism hub (Las Rozas Village), business/tech parks, and the COSMOS smart-city digital twin.
Leganés, Madrid
Leganés, a municipality in metropolitan south Madrid, Spain; over 191,000 inhabitants (2023), founded 1280, Villa since 1626; hosts UC3M, IMDEA Networks, and the regional AI cluster.
León, Spain
León, Spain: provincial capital in Castilla y León on the River Bernesga, founded on a Roman Legio VI Victrix camp, former capital of the Kingdom of León, site of Europe's first Cortes in 1188, famed for its Gothic cathedral and the Camino de Santiago.
Lleida
Lleida (Lérida; ancient Ilerda, Iberian Iltirta) is a city in western Catalonia, Spain, capital of the Segrià comarca and province. Roman municipium, Muslim Larida, captured 1149; 146,266 inhabitants (2025), seat of a bishopric and the first university of the Crown of Aragon.
Llívia
Llívia is a Spanish municipality of Baixa Cerdanya, Girona, an enclave fully surrounded by France, kept Spanish by the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees because it was a town, not a village; about 1,572 residents, 12.87 km², home to Europe's oldest preserved pharmacy.
Lloret de Mar
Lloret de Mar, Costa Brava resort town in Catalonia's Selvà comarca; 36,533 residents swelling to ~200,000 in summer; 5.1 million overnight stays in 2025, 120 hotels, main markets France, UK, and Poland.
Logroño
Logroño, capital of La Rioja in northern Spain on the Ebro River, a Camino de Santiago city of about 150,000 people known for Rioja wine tourism, its 1095 fuero, and consistently high Spanish quality-of-life rankings.
Lorca
Lorca (Lorca, Murcia) is a city and municipality in southwestern Region of Murcia, Spain; 1,675.2 km², among Spain's largest municipalities, a medieval frontier and Baroque city hit by the 2011 earthquake.
Lugo, Galicia
Lugo (Lucus Augusti) is the capital of Lugo province in Galicia, Spain, founded by Rome around 25–15 BC. It holds the only Roman city wall with a fully intact perimeter (2,117 m, UNESCO 2000) and passed 100,000 inhabitants in 2025.
Madrid
Madrid, capital of Spain since Felipe II moved his court there in 1561; also called Magerit in its Andalusí era. Largest Spanish city (3,497,277 registered residents in 2025), Spain's leading regional economy (19.4% of GDP), record Metro ridership, and a low-tax regional government.
Magaluf
Magaluf (Magalluf) is a mass-tourism resort in Calvià, southwest Mallorca, Spain, known for its 892-metre urban beach, Punta Ballena nightlife, British package tourism, excess-tourism decrees, and ongoing Meliá-led and public redevelopment.
Málaga
Málaga, a Mediterranean port city and capital of Málaga province in Andalusia, Spain; sixth most populated Spanish city (577,405 in 2021). Founded by Phoenicians, conquered by the Catholic Monarchs in 1487, now a tourism, museum, and technology hub facing housing pressure.
Manresa
Manresa, city and municipal capital of Bages in central Catalonia, Spain; first documented 889, medieval Sèquia canal, 19th-century textile industrial center, about 80,692 inhabitants (2025).
Marbella
Marbella, resort city and municipality in Malaga province, Andalusia, on the Costa del Sol; 173,420 registered residents in 2026, historic Muslim walled old town, Puerto Banus marina, luxury tourism, and Spain's highest housing purchase-effort ratio.
Medina-Sidonia
Medina-Sidonia (Medina Sidonia) is a historic hilltop town in central Cádiz province, Andalusia: 487.15 km², 11,870 people (2025), Phoenician-founded, Roman Asido Caesarina, seat of the Duchy of Medina Sidonia.
Melilla
Melilla, Spanish autonomous city on the north Moroccan coast, taken by Castile in 1497, autonomous since the 1995 statute, population about 87,000, EU's only African land border, disputed by Morocco.