Galicia 4-day Food & Wine Private Tour

5.0
(3 reviews) Santiago de Compostela, Spain

4 days (approximately)
Pickup offered
Offered in: German and 3 more

A wine expert leads this tour and can be adapted to your specific needs. We will visit the main wine regions of Galicia, enjoy their wines, visit their cities, monuments, and hidden corners, taste the typical meals, and obtain an off-the-beaten-track experience, rest in the best hotels, monasteries, old castles, or manor houses. An exclusive experience hard to forget.

What's Included

Phone charger
WiFi on board
Lunch (Optional[4])
Lunch
Bottled water
Breakfast (Optional[3])
Breakfast
Photographic memento of your experience
Dinners

Meeting and pickup

Pickup points
You can choose a pickup location at checkout (multiple pickup locations are available).
Pickup details:

Designated pickup points previously agreed upon.

OR
Meeting point

Train station or pickup point to be agreed with travelers

End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Duration: 4 days (approximately)
    Day 1

    From Santiago to Cambados

    3 stops
  • 1

    We will visit Cambados, Europan Wine Capital 2017, and one of its main and most prestigious wine cellars in the Pazo de Fefiñanes

    1 hour Admission ticket included
  • 2

    Visit this very nice chateau style cellar where you will be able to taste their very reputed wines.

    50 minutes Admission ticket included
  • 3
    Isla de la Toja

    Visit La Toja, famous for its thermal medicinal spring waters, now a luxury resort, The Saint Caralampio church all covered with scallop shells, to after go to El Grove to embark in a catamaran that will take us to the mussel farms while we enjoy mussels and wine.

    2 hours Admission ticket free
  • Day 2

    Pontevedra - Vigo - Tuy - Valença

    4 stops
  • 4

    Visit Combarro a very picturesque fishing town and its (horreos) by the sea. We then go to Pontevedra, the most monumental city of Galicia after Santiago.

    2 hours Admission ticket free
  • 5
    Baiona

    Baiona a fishing town where the news of the new world fist arrived, with its impressive castle of Monterreal, from there we will continue through the coastal Portuguese Camino de Santiago to Oia where lunch will be taken while contemplating the Atlantic and the waterfront XII century Oya monastery.

    1 hour Admission ticket free
  • 6

    La Guardia is the last town on the Atlantic coast neighbouring with Portugal. We will go Up to Mount Santa Tecla to see the prehistoric Celtic settlements and the stunning views of The Atlantic, Portugal and The Rosal valley.

    30 minutes Admission ticket free
  • 7

    After visiting Tuy and Its cathedral, we will go across the river to Portugal to visit and dine in Valença do Minho and its triple fortified walls.

    2 hours Admission ticket free
  • Day 3

    Orense - Ribera Sacra

    3 stops
  • 8

    Orense, capital of the same province and the holder of 4 of the 5 appellations of origin of Galician wines. We will visit its thermal water springs, and magnificent cathedral.

    50 minutes Admission ticket included
  • 9

    San Pedro de Rocas a VI century is the oldest monastery in Galicia placed on top of rocs. After we will be heading to Castro Caldelas with its castle and nices views over the Ribeira Sacra.

    3 hours Admission ticket free
  • 10

    After lunch, we will start our decesent towards the Sil river, The Ribeira Sacra is a wine region with a long winemaking tradition with all the vineyards placed in the steepest slopes of the Sil river canyon stopping in some of the wineries in the area where we'll taste their "heroic wines". Visit some stunning viewpoints.

    2 hours Admission ticket included
  • Day 4

    Valdeorras wine region

    2 stops
  • 11

    The last day of our trip will take us to the Valdeorras wine region, famous for its excellent Godello and Mencia wines, we will pass by Montefurado an old Roman tunnel to divert the Sil river and obtain its gold.

    1 hour Admission ticket included
  • 12

    We will go off the road to take you the biggest Roman open-air gold mine in the world, a World Heritage site with fantastic views of the red colour mountain that remained. We will then have lunch and start heading back to Santiago

    1 hour Admission ticket free

Additional info

  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Supplied by Tours of Galicia

Tags

Wine Tastings
Multi-day Tours
Private and Luxury
Private Sightseeing Tours
4WD Tours
Ports of Call Tours
Wine Tours
Shore Excursions
Food & Drink
Spring Break
Port Pickup
Short term availability

Cancellation Policy

If you cancel at least 6 full day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel between 2 and 6 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a 50% refund.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.

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