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Sample package
Spain from Madrid to Barcelona (10 days/8 nights)
Day 1 CANADA – MADRID
Departure flight towards Madrid.
Day 2
MADRID
Welcome by
your driver at the airport in Madrid.
Transfer to the hotel in Madrid.
Lunch on your own at your expense.
Afternoon: free time for a first discovery of the city.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Madrid.
Day 3 MADRID
Breakfast.
Morning: panoramic guided tour of the capital (includind Plaza Mayor): La Plaza dates back to the 17th
century. A social center, it used to host bull races, trials during the
Inquisition and public executions. At its center stands an equestrian statue of
Felipe III.
Lunch on your own at your expense.
Afternoon: tour of the Royal Palace. Designed to impress the crowds, the Madrid Royal
Palace stands at a height
overlooking the rio Manzanares, on the site occupied by the Alcazar fortress during
centuries before being destroyed by a fire in 1734. Felipe V then requested a
grand building. Its construction lasted 26 years. Unguided tour of the Prado
Museum, one of the most renowned art museums in the world. It holds numerous
paintings by Velasquez and Goya and the latter has a statue facing the main
entrance.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Madrid.
Day 4 MADRID – CORDOBA
Breakfast.
Morning: journey
towards Andalusia. Crossing of the Castilla La Mancha (land of the Don Quixote
adventures).
Lunch on your own and at your expense.
Afternoon: Self-guided
tour of Cordoba. Discover the Jewish quarter and its flowery alleys, the
Mosque-Cathedral and the Tower of Calahorra. The old town holds most of the
mainWith its narrow streets, its wrought iron
balconies and its goldsmith workshops, it seems to have remained unchanged since
the 10th century.
Seeting up at the hotel in Cordoba.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Cordoba.
Day 5 SEVILLA
Breakfast.
Morning: Self-guided
tour of Seville. You will explore the cathedral (built on the site of the former
Mosque, of which the Patio de los
Naranjos and the Giralda, which
was originally a minaret, are witnesses) and the Catholic Monarchs’ Alcazar.
Stroll through Parque Maria Luisa to
visit the Plaza de España (official
pavilion of the 1929 Exposición Ibéro-Americana).
Lunch on your own and at your expense.
Afternoon: end of the self-guided tour of Seville.
Possibility of
visiting a bull farm.
Back to Cordoba.
Dinner and overnight
at the hotel in Cordoba.
Day 6 CORDOBA – GRANADA
Breakfast.
Morning: crossing of
the olive tree region. Possibility of visiting an olive oil mill.
Lunch on
your own and at your expense.
Afternoon: Self-guided tour of the Alhambra palace and of the Generalife gardens. You
will travel between dream and reality as you walk through this complex of palaces,
fortresses and gardens where water fountains squirt from every side. The
palaces, which constructions essentially began in the 15th century,
and the Alhambra gardens form a true city inside the ramparts. From the Alhambra,
a path leads to the Generalife which served as a summer residence for the Nasrid sultans.
Its name means: “garden of the supreme paradise”.
Setting up at your hotel
in Granada.
Possibility of a tapas dinner and/or of a gypsy
flamenco evening in the characteristic Sacromonte area.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Granada.
Day 7 GRANADA –VALENCIA – PEÑISCOLA
Breakfast.
Morning: road toward Valencia.
Lunch on your own at your expense.
Afternoon: journey to Peñiscola.
Setting at the hotel.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Peñiscola.
Day 8 PEÑISCOLA – BARCELONA
Breakfast.
Morning: road toward Barcelona.
Lunch on your own at your expense.
Afternoon: Self-guided tour of Barcelona: stroll along the Ramblas and in the Barrio
Gothic district. Barcelona, active port of the Mediterranean, is also an
important cultural center. The success of the 1992 Olympic Games has
demonstrated the dynamism and the efficiency of the inhabitants.
Self-guided tour of the Picasso Museum.
Dinner and overnight at the hotel on Barcelona’s coast.
Day 9 BARCELONA
Breakfast.
Morning: guided tour on the theme of Gaudi and the Modernism: the Park Guëll,
the Sagrada Familia (tour), the Casa Batlo and Casa Pedrera façades.
Lunch on your own at your expense.
Afternoon: free time to
shop for souvenirs.
Dinner and overnight at the
hotel on Barcelona’s coast.
Day 10 BARCELONA – CANADA
Breakfast.
Transfer to the airport in Barcelona.
Return flight from Barcelona.