Highlights of Spain - 8 Days
 Places Covered : Madrid - Valencia - Barcelona - Madrid

 

 
Day 01

BARCELONA
Transfer Barcelona Airport/hotel

 
Day 02

BARCELONA
Breakfast and overnight
at hotel. Morning classic regular city tour. We will walk to the Gothic Quarter full of XII to XVIth century buildings, visiting inside the Cathedral. We will visit panoramically the ‘Ensanche’, quarter built in XIXth century where La Sagrada Familia church and most of the Modernism buildings are.
Balance of day to follow discovering the city. And of course to walk along the always alive Ramblas street, full of street actors, musicians, painters

 
Day 03

BARCELONA
Breakfast. High speed train to Madrid
MADRID ( 625 kms, arrival in about 3 hrls) Balance of day to visit by your own Prado Musem, probably the best
collection of classic painters on the world, and the magnificent Royal Palace or to walk in its gay and active streets. Overnight at hotel

 
Day 04

MADRID
Breakfast and overnight at hotel. Panoramic regular city tour. We will visit panoramically some of its main avenues and monumental fountains (Cibeles, Neptuno), as well as the famous and always busy Plaza Mayor (main square) and old town

 
Day 05

MADRID
Breakfast. High speed train to Cordoba
CORDOBA (400kms, arrival in about 2 hours). The town was important in the Roman age, but during the Moslem
period specially the IX and Xth centuries, when Cordoba became the capital of the Caliphate and the most populated in the world (almost 1 million). Morning we suggest to visit the Mosque, considered the nicest among the historical mosques. Then a walk around the Jewish Quarter, with its fresh narrow streets and Andalusia "patios", where we will find one of the few perfectly preserved Synagogues in Spain.
Overnight at the hotel

 
Day 06

CORDOBA Breakfast. High speed train to Sevilla
SEVILLA (125 kms, arrival in 45 minutes) Afternoon a walk in the Maria Luisa Gardens with the monumental Plaza
de España is a delight.. Too the Royal Alcazares (the medieval arab palace) is recommended. Overnight at hotel

 
Day 07

SEVILLA
Breakfast and overnight
at hotel. Morning regular city tour . We will visit inside the Gothic Cathedral, the largest in Spain and third in the world, with the Giralda tower (striking minaret of the former mosque). Then a walk by Santa Cruz Quarter, a maze of small alleys with colorful names stepped in legend and small squares with the peacefulness of a tiny garden is an invitation to rest.

 
Day 08

SEVILLA
Breakfast. High speed train to Madrid
MADRID (540 kms, arrival in about 2 hours 45 minutes
End of services

 
Hotels
  3* Sup 4* Superior
Barcelona 2BB Aston 3*S Barcelona Center 4*S
Madrid 2BB Gran Versalles 4* Palacio S.Martin 4*S
Sevilla 2BB Don Paco 3* Sevilla Center 4*S
Cordoba 1BB Cordoba Center 4*S Cordoba Center 4*S
Total p.pax   1/2TWB S.SGL 1/2TWB S.SGL
Jul/Aug   536 229 573 233
Rest season   656 250 715 347
75 euros discount p.pax over these rates if it is reserved at least 25 days before arrival !!!!
 

Remarks:

• All these rates are net per pax in euros.
• The quotation is based on minimum of 2 pax . In case you will have 1 only pax, you would have to add 60 euros (additional to the   supplement single)
• We have considered from 1-4-09/31-10-09, but it is not valid during fairs and congress.
• We have quoted all services all services remarked in black
• Train tickets are in high speed trains in tourist class, (it is more than enough). They are excellent, quick and bring you to the heart   of the cities, so you save a lot of time and money respect to airports.
• If you would have to leave from Barcelona, you would have to add to these rates or train Madrid/Barcelona (supplement 130
  euros p.pax ), or a flight Sevilla-Barcelona (supplement only 22 euros p.pax !!!)

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