Andalusia and The Mediterranean Coast with Barcelona

Andalusia and The Mediterranean Coast with Barcelona

Escorted Tour

9 Days | 8 Nights


Tour Schedule

Meet and greet at the airport. Take a transfer to your hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure Accommodation at the hotel.

Depart from our established hotels in Madrid. Please refer to your documentation for detailed departure information. Drive along La Mancha, Don Quixote’s land. Brief stop at a specific site in Puerto Laplace. Cross through the natural border of “Despeñaperros” and get into Andalusia, a region for itself that shows an enormous heritage from a splendorous past. Reach Cordoba. Impressive tour of its Mosque and other sites that will ease our mind and spirit strolling through its narrow winding streets of the Jewish Quarter. After a short two hours in the afternoon, the ride reaches Seville. Dinner and accommodation at the hotel.  

Breakfast at the hotel. Morning panoramic city tour visiting the Cathedral (the second largest in the Catholic world after St. Peters in Rome), Santa Cruz quarter (a natural scenario of “Carmen” as well as precisely where the myth of “Don Juan” developed), Maria Luisa Park and Plaza de España. Afternoon at leisure for you to discover exclusive views, and specific flavors of this active full of light city. Dinner and accommodation at the hotel. Optional Flamenco Tour

Breakfast at the hotel. Drive east through the Caliphate road to the heart of ANDALUSIA, observing an endless number of olive trees on the way to Granada and its great and unique monumental environment, the last stronghold of the Moorish Kingdoms up to 1492. Visit the world-famous Alhambra complex and Generalife Gardens that have inspired several authors with their sound and sights, such as the “Tales of the Alhambra” by W. Irving. Dinner and accommodation at the hotel. Optional Gipsy Flamenco show at Sacromonte quarter.

After breakfast at the hotel start driving looking for the Mediterranean coast. Via Murcia, capital of the fertile garden of the Segura river, continues north via Alicante, the second largest city within the region of Valencia. Reach Valencia one of the main capitals of the Mediterranean coast with its modern Arts and Sciences Architectural Complex integrated by six elements:  Hemispheric, Umbracle, Science Museum, Oceanographic, Palau de Les Arts, and Ágora. Valencia is also the home of the internationally well renowned and delicious “Paella,” Accommodation at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel. Morning city tour of this shining city, including a drive through the old city showing the most prominent buildings, we will then be driven past the old riverbed of the Turia to the most avant-garde complex “Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias” to watch the emblematic exteriors of the six buildings. Early afternoon departure northward along the Mediterranean coast to Catalunya, via Tarragona, the Roman Tarraco. Reach Barcelona principal Mediterranean city homeland of the famous architect Gaudí, symbol of Catalonian modernism. Accommodation at the hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel. Morning city tour of Barcelona well known worldwide for the Olympic Games during 1992, drive along the main avenues with impressive modernist buildings by Gaudí such as La Pedrera, Casa Milá, etc. - declared World Heritage buildings. - Montjuïc Park with spectacular views of the city and harbor, the Olympic Ring, a monument to Columbus, and the Olympic Port.  The afternoon is for you to keep discovering this city full of attractive offers and exquisite and varied gastronomy. Accommodation at the hotel.

After breakfast at the hotel, departure southwest along an industrial and agricultural area with specific relevance within Europe, arrive at Zaragoza, the capital city of Aragón, within the banks of Ebro River, the most copious within the Iberian Peninsula. Zaragoza, known as Cesar Augusta during the Roman period, had an important role in Spanish history. Some free time to see the impressive Baroque architecture of the Basilic Temple of Our Lady Pilar. Continue to Madrid.

After breakfast at the hotel, transfer to the airport.