I have many interests. Some of my interests include biking, walking and running. I am delighted when I discover communities that are friendly to those interests. My current city is adopting bike and pedestrian friendly measures but we are not quite there yet.
On the other hand, Spain seems to have caught on to bike and pedestrian friendliness. Every city we visited took measures to be bike friendly. All of them were pedestrian centric (Perhaps because the cities were developed prior to the invention of the automobile-unlike many cities in the U.S.).
Madrid
In Madrid I failed to take pictures of the bike lanes in the city but I did snap some pictures of some of the evening paseo (walks). In Madrid many streets are pedestrian only. Families, couples, and groups spend most evenings walking the streets and socializing.
Puerta del Sol
Cava Baja, Madrid
Sevilla
Sevilla has some spectacular bike-only paths through its core. Easy bike rental kiosks are available if you don’t wish to have the burden of purchasing, locking up and maintaining your own bike.
Woman on a rental
Trail along the water
Path along the Alcazar
Bike Rental
Bike trail
Barcelona
Barcelona has a good network of bike and pedestrian paths down many of its avenues as well.
Bike and pedestrian paths down medians
Las Ramblas
Bike lane taken over by pedestrians
Growing With Leala 