Hardly more than a hundred souls make their home in Sotres. If you follow a dirt road from this mountain village up a glacial valley, you’ll think you’re headed to what seems the end of the world. Yet ...

Spain is often associated with beaches and green mountains – but it is also a land of volcanoes. The country is home to dozens of craters, calderas and volcanic cones that can now be explored on foot.

A landscape of forbidding peaks west of Bilbao plays host to an improbable world full of wild flowers, animals and resilient cheesemakers The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a ...