This eight-day tour highlights Andalusia’s Moorish heritage and visits the Andalusian cities of Cordoba, Seville and Granada, plus the cathedral city of Toledo. You’ll spend two days exploring Madrid at your own pace, then travel to Andalusia and Toledo to discover the history and culture of southern Spain. Granada’s Alhambra and Generalife Gardens are just some of the many UNESCO World Heritage Sites you’ll visit in this legendary region of Spain. Choose from three-star or four-star hotel accommodation for all seven nights.
Meet and greet at the airport. Take a transfer to your hotel. Rest of the day is at leisure Accommodation at the hotel.
Puerta del Sol
Plaza Mayor
Plaza de la Villa
Royal Palace
Cibeles Fountain
Neptuno Fountain
Puerta de Alcalá
Prado Museum
Gran Vía
Paseo de la Castellana
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Drive along La Mancha, Don Quixote’s land. Brief stop at typical site in Puerto Lapice. 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.
In the afternoon, after a short two hours ride reach Seville. accommodation at the hotel.
Visit the exterior of 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 a precisely where the myth of “Don Juan” developed.
Maria Luisa Park.
Plaza de España
After 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 incredible and amazing monumental environment, last stronghold of the Moorish Kingdoms up to 1492. Visit the world famous Alhambra complex and Generalife Gardens that have inspired several authors with its sound and sights, such as the “Tales of the Alhambra” by W. Irving.
Breakfast at the hotel and free day to enjoy the Nazari capital. Granada is more than the Alhambra; the Muslim heritage runs through every corner of the city and mixes with the Christian tradition, giving rise to a unique city. Optionally, you can participate in this spirit and be immersed in the magical neighborhood of El Albaicín, a World Heritage Site, to discover its secrets: beautiful visits to the Sierra Nevada, old mosques converted into churches and old palaces, still saturated with Arab aromas. Overnight at the hotel.
Breakfast at the hotel. Drive northward where it emerges, toward the sky of Castilla and surrounded by the Tagus River, the impressive Imperial city of Toledo –World Heritage City- where the three cultures Christians, Moorish and Jewish, have lived together. Resume of the Spanish art, history and spirituality the whole town is a National Monument. Short guided tour of this historical old town through its narrow streets.
Continue to Madrid. Accommodation at the hotel.
After breakfast at the hotel transfer to the airport. END OF OUR SERVICES
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