Cádiz, Spain

Cádiz claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in Western Europe. Whether that's strictly true depends on who you ask, but walking the old town it's easy to believe. Narrow streets that suddenly open onto the Atlantic. Baroque churches next to Moorish arches next to a plain neoclassical facade that's been repainted a dozen times.

I only spent on day in Cádiz. The morning started at La Caleta beach as I was looking to capture the golden colors. The afternoon in the mercados, where the seafood stalls smell like the ocean they came from an hour ago. My day was finished walking around Plaza de San Juan de Dios.

What's in the gallery

The old town architecture. The arched windows, sunbursts, iron balconies that have seen better decades and are better for it. The waterfront, with fishing boats anchored the same way they probably were fifty years ago. And the street stuff: a tattoo shop with a dog out front, laundry drying on a rooftop, a produce vendor arranging oranges like it's an art form, because to him it probably is.

If you're in Seville and have a spare day, take the train to Cádiz. It is a short ride and well worth the time.