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St Giles’ Cathedral, , also known as the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is the historic City Church of Edinburgh which was founded in about 1124. The cathedral has been one of Edinburgh's religious focal points for approximately 900 years. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Giles, who is the patron saint of Edinburgh. According to legend, St Giles is the patron saint of lepers, nursing mothers and the lame. Its distinctive crown steeple is a prominent feature of the city skyline, at about a third of the way down the Royal Mile which runs from the Castle to Holyrood Palace. (at St Giles' Cathedral)

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The university was ranked 15th in the UK and 82nd in the world in the QS World University Rankings for 2016-17. In 2013, Birmingham was named 'University of the Year 2014' in the Times Higher Education awards. The 2016 Global Employability University Ranking places Birmingham at 90th worldwide and 10th in the UK. Birmingham is also ranked 9th in the UK for Graduate Prospects in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017. (at University of Birmingham)

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Bramall Music Building, a 450-seat concert hall, which completes the redbrick semicircle of the Aston Webb building designed by Glenn Howells Architects with venue design by Acoustic Dimensions. This auditorium, with its associated research, teaching and rehearsal facilities, houses the Department of Music. (at The Bramall)

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The university's Great Hall is located in the domed Aston Webb Building, which is named after one of the architects – the other was Ingress Bell. The initial 25-acre (100,000 m2) site was given to the university in 1900 by Lord Calthorpe. (at University of Birmingham)

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The University of Birmingham main campus of the university occupies a site some 3 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Birmingham city centre, in Edgbaston. It is arranged around Joseph Chamberlain Memorial Clock Tower (affectionately known as 'Old Joe'), a grand campanile which commemorates the university's first chancellor, Joseph Chamberlain. Chamberlain may be considered the founder of Birmingham University, and was largely responsible for the university gaining its Royal Charter in 1900 and for the development of the Edgbaston campus. (at University of Birmingham)

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The Baths are a major tourist attraction and, together with the Grand Pump Room, receive more than one million visitors a year. (at The Roman Baths)

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The Foodie Bugle showcases excellent artisan food and drink as well as simple, useful homewares. Open from 8am to 6pm every day, they stock selling and serving British products whenever possible. In it you will find everything we have available in the online shop, as well as fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs, flowers, delicatessen foods, a tea room and all our homewares. They serve breakfast, lunch and teas-coffees-wines-ales. The Foodie Bugle also write a journal about our artisan finds, producers, recipes and events at www.thefoodiebugle.com. (at The Foodie Bugle)

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Muelle Uno area ('Quay One' in English) is located in Malaga Port. After 13 years of planning and negotiations, an 80-million-euro budget, and with over 400 new jobs created, Muelle Uno was officially inaugurated at the end of November 2011 with modern shops, restaurants and bars bordering one side of the central orange tree-lined promenade and exclusive yachts flanking the other. (at Muelle Uno Puerto De Malaga)

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The Plaza de España ("Spain Square") is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park), in Seville, Spain, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of the Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture. (at Plaza de España, Seville)

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Los Baños de Doña María de Padilla. The "Baths of Lady María de Padilla" are rainwater tanks beneath the Patio del Crucero. The tanks are named after María de Padilla, the mistress of Peter the Cruel. (at Real Alcázar de Sevilla)

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The Alcázar of Seville (Spanish "Reales Alcázares de Sevilla" or "Royal Alcazars of Seville", (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈkaθar])) is a royal palace in Seville, Spain, originally developed by Moorish Muslim kings. The palace is renowned as one of the most beautiful in Spain, being regarded as one of the most outstanding examples of mudéjar architecture found on the Iberian Peninsula. (at Real Alcázar de Sevilla)

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All the palaces of Al Andalus had garden orchards with fruit trees, horticultural produce and a wide variety of fragrant flowers. The garden-orchards not only supplied food for the palace residents but had the aesthetic function of bringing pleasure. Water was ever present in the form of irrigation channels, runnels, jets, ponds and pools. (at Real Alcázar de Sevilla)

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Metropol Parasol is a wooden structure located at La Encarnación square, in the old quarter of Seville, Spain. The wood used was birch, imported from Finland, because of its straight qualities. A feasible design using glue as reinforcement was finally settled on only at the beginning of 2009. (at Metropol Parasol)

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Alhambra decoration consists for the upper part of the walls, as a rule, of Arabic inscriptions—mostly poems by Ibn Zamrak and others praising the palace—that are manipulated into geometrical patterns with vegetal background set onto an arabesque setting ("Ataurique"). Much of this ornament is carved stucco (plaster) rather than stone. Tile mosaics ("alicatado"), with complicated mathematical patterns ("tracería", most precisely "lacería"), are largely used as panelling for the lower part. Muqarnas are the main elements for vaulting with stucco, and some of the most accomplished dome examples of this kind are in the Court of the Lions halls. The palace complex is designed in the Nasrid style, the last blooming of Islamic Art in the Iberian Peninsula, that had a great influence on the Maghreb to the present day, and on contemporary Mudejar Art, which is characteristic of western elements reinterpreted into Islamic forms and widely popular during the Reconquista in Spain. (at Alhambra)

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The Garden of the Partal (Jardines del Partal) covers all the area between the exit of the Rauda and the esplanade where the Ladies Tower (Torre de las Damas) stands. The garden that surrounded the royal palaces was in the same place and it was also laid out gradually. The Emperor's Chambers would later occupy that same location. During the Arab period there were many buildings there. The buildings belonged to the magnates who lived around the Royal Palace (Palacio Real) and the most important one was the Ladies Tower (Torre de las Damas). (at Alhambra)

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Complex of palaces, the residence of the kings of Granada. Its construction was started by the founder of the dynasty, Alhamar. The walls of these palaces enclose the refinement and the delicateness of the last Hispano-Arab governors of Al Andalus, the Nasrids. The intimate concept of the royal palace, closed to curious eyes, harmonises the robustness of the outside stretches of the walls with the fragility inside, where the architectural elements become purely ornamental. The patios, continuous allusions to gardens, with elements of Persian and Muslim inspiration, are a taste of paradise, a nomad's oasis, a delight to the senses. Water, the element that shapes the palace, combining the garden with architecture, represents purity. Crystalline water running between the fountains' marble. Life-giving water making the garden lush and fresh, providing aesthetic beauty, the sultan's generosity, a whole world of symbols and stimuli. (at Nasrid Palaces Granada, Spain)

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Jardím de la Sultana (Sultana's Garden or Courtyard of the Cypress), thought to best preserve the style of the medieval Persian garden in Al-Andalus. This patio has a central pond surrounded by a myrtle hedge and in the middle of the pond there is another little pond with a stone fountain. The patio is so called because of the old cypresses that are in the verandas, the most famous of which is the Cypress of the Sultana (Ciprés de la Sultana) in which, according to the legend, Boabdil's wife used to meet a knight of the Abencerrajes family. This triggered the death of the people of this noble tribe, whose throats were slit. (at Generalife)