SPAIN appears twice in this year's TripAdvisor 'best in the world' destinations list of winners, along with 20 other established holiday hotspots on three continents.
The Travellers' Choice Awards for 'Trending World Destinations', under the heading of 'Best of the Best', hails one of Spain's favourite holiday magnets as the outright winner, with another in sixth place.
Peak season on the beach in Cala Millor, in Sant Llorenç des Cardassar. But Mallorca has numerous much less-busy beaches for those who want peace and quiet - as well as a long list of natural, cultural and historical sites (photo: Pixabay)
Mallorca tops the list, ahead of Cairo, Egypt – home of the Pyramids, the Sphinx and the Egyptian Museum where Tut Ankh Amon's remains and his massive collection of jewellery and body armour are held – with the Greek island of Rhodes third.
Mayan archaeological gems right on a rural beach put Tulúm, eastern México, fourth, followed by the historic coastal city of Dubrovnik, in Croatia.
Mallorca's neighbouring island, Ibiza – the second-most inhabited of the Balearics – comes next, beating the low-rise, laid-back beach city of Natal on Brazil's north-eastern tip, the safari destination of Arusha in Tanzania, and Göreme in Turkey's Kapadokya, or Cappadocia area, famous for its fascinating forest of natural sand-rock chimneys.
Ibiza, with its historic, quaint capital town of the same name (photo by Ibiza town hall)
Another Greek island, that of Santorini – with its famous bright-blue domed roofs and white houses above rugged beaches – completes the top 10.
Paraty, south of Rio de Janeiro on the Brazilian coast, the Caribbean island of Aruba, the popular red-roofed historic holiday city of Split in Croatia, and the tropical beaches of Playa del Carmen on México's east coast come next, with Hawaii Island in the archipelago of the same name at number 15.
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