Stone causeway and stairway winding along a rocky ridge between two coves, with green cliffs and grey-green sea

Iberia

Colourful apartment buildings stacked up a hillside under a cloudy sky, a floodlight pole in the foreground
Glass window in a pale stone wall cut diagonally by shadow, a figure standing among chairs behind the pane
Colourful laundry drying on racks outside a white apartment block, seen from below against a blue sky
White van with a bike on the back parked on a dirt track in arid scrubland, a small ochre hut and mountains beyond
Stone causeway and stairway winding along a rocky ridge between two coves, with green cliffs and grey-green sea
Blue fishing boat pulling away from the quay in front of white houses with green shutters below a stone rampart
Two walkers on a grassy path heading towards the sea under a grey sky, power lines crossing the frame
Dense festive crowd in a small harbour town, bunting overhead, white houses below a wooded cliff and moored sailing boats
Ginger dog on a chain trotting past the red door of a white building, tall grass in the foreground
Brick apartment blocks and concrete balconies framing a sunlit facade, looking up at a deep blue sky
Laundry hanging between two balconies on a cream facade with green shutters, geraniums on the railings
Packed bullring crowd dressed in white and red, a young black bull charging a man across the sand
Gothic stone portal with a carved door, its arch opening onto a white apartment building with balconies
Wooden hoarding in low light, a two-wheeled metal cart numbered 19 hanging on it, a black tag beside it
Railway station facade decorated with ceramic tiles and a clock, lettered “F.C. de Santander a Bilbao”, a brick tower block behind
Person in a cap sweeping the cracked ground of an arid plain beside an empty chair, mesas on the horizon, in black and white
Fire station lit up at night with red engines under its arches, a blurred motorbike passing in the foreground
Empty basketball court beneath viaduct pillars, lit by a few lamps at night, seen from above through a rusty railing
Narrow alley in black and white, a seated person reading a red book, the only touch of colour, a pigeon and passers-by further on
Crumbling facades with empty window openings, a glowing ochre wall on the left and blackened brick on the right
Looking down on polished steel sculptures on the floor and loops of white neon, with visitors walking among them
Orange lifebuoy marked “Kalamua Lekeitio” mounted on a boat’s white hull, coiled rope beside it
Old chair abandoned on an overgrown terrace, with debris and a white balustrade in the shade of trees
Stone bell tower topped with a cross under a stormy sky, next to a large grey mural painted on a gable wall
Factory with corrugated metal roofs under a heavy sky, painted “Cubiertos Dalia” signs and a steel pylon
White house with a red roof on a hill of dry grass under a grey sky, with power poles, cables and a radio mast
Sheep grazing beside stacked logs and two yellow forestry machines, a stone farmhouse and a mountain at dusk
Small red-roofed building atop a rocky islet pierced by an arch, linked to the shore by a path, dark sea and clouds
Aerial view of a narrow street between stacked concrete blocks and red-roofed sheds, parked cars and a single pedestrian
Boat hull out of the water under large white tarpaulins, in front of colourful waterfront apartment buildings
Festive crowd under strings of bunting in a harbour, a banner reading “Elantxobe Arraun Txosna”, a packed sea wall beyond
White chapel with an orange roof and a small belfry on a clifftop, the sea and bluish mountains beyond
Three dark horses on a bracken-covered slope above the sea, a tree trunk on the right, in black and white
Rocky hillside rising diagonally, its ridge lined with a row of trees under a cloudy sky, in black and white
Winding forest road seen through a windscreen, a red car ahead and sunbeams falling through the trees
Steep lane between ochre and orange facades, a small white van parked below and green hills in the distance
Small stone hut with a tiled roof and chimney against a clay mound in a semi-desert landscape, in black and white
Brass band playing at night in a lit street, a white sousaphone, red neckerchiefs and onlookers around
Old rooftops and a tall brick bell tower next to a crane and a building under construction, under a blue sky
Empty chair standing on the cracked ground of an arid plain, mesas on the horizon, in black and white
Grey car on a dirt track crossing scrubland, a hut and cliffs in the distance, in black and white
Six wind turbines lined up on a plateau of dry fields under a pale blue sky, scrub in the foreground

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Basque coast and harbours, street festivals, narrow lanes, facades and arid plains: a journey through northern Spain, in colour and in black and white.

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