Spain's Cultural Capitals
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Highlights
- Explore Madrid
- Visit the Synagogue of El Transito
- Discover the historical sites of Valencia
- Explore Barcelona
- Visit Sagrada Familia basilica, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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- Choose to purchase Grand Circle's airfare, and your airport transfers, government taxes, fees, and airline fuel surcharges are included. Or, make your own air arrangements
- Accommodations for 12 nights in comfortable rooms with private baths
- 22 meals: 12 breakfasts, 4 lunches, and 6 dinners
- 6 included tours
- Exclusive Discovery Series events: Flamenco dancing experience • Home-Hosted Lunch • Life of Antoni Gaudi tour
- Gratuities on your main trip for local guides and motorcoach drivers
- Personal headset for all included and optional tours on your main trip
- Exclusive services of a local Grand Circle Program Director (assigned to no more than 42 travelers)
- 5% Frequent Traveler Credit toward your next Grand Circle trip—an average of $213
- Private motorcoach land travel
- Baggage handling for 1 piece of luggage per person, including tips
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Land in Madrid this morning, where a Grand Circle representative will meet you at the airport to transfer you to your hotel. This evening, meet up with your Program Director for an orientation briefing, in which you'll get a preview of the upcoming discoveries of your...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Spain's vibrant capital city enjoys a reputation as an extraordinarily welcoming one. Though the metropolis boasts a population of more than three million people, a great many of the city's residents (called madrilenos) are transplan...
Meals: Breakfast
Today is yours to make your own discoveries in Madrid, if you'd like. Or you can join an optional full-day tour to Segovia, which, with its dramatic hilltop location and stunning medieval architecture, might feel like a fairy tale come to life....
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Spend another day acquainting yourself with Madrid, or join an optional half-day tour to another one of Spain's historic cities (and another UNESCO World Heritage Site), Toledo. This quintessentially Old-World city boasts a rich mult...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodations: Ayre Hotel Astoria Palace or similar
Depart Madrid this morning for Valencia, stopping along the way to explore the breathtaking mountaintop city of Cuenca. The Moors who founded the city chose its hilltop locat...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodations: Ayre Hotel Astoria Palace or similar
Continue your tour of Spain in Valencia, the country's third-largest city, as well as one of its oldest. It has been many things over the centuries—a Roman settlement, a Moo...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodations: Ayre Hotel Astoria Palace or similar
Today is yours to spend in Valencia as you please, with lunch on your own. You might choose to stroll idly along the manicured gardens of the Turia riverbed, or seek out loc...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodations: Ayre Hotel Astoria Palace or similar
After breakfast this morning, you'll visit the Lladro Museum, where you'll find a collection of highly valued handcrafted porcelain figurines. Lladro figurines are internatio...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodations: Eurostars Cristal Palace or similar
Depart Valencia by motorcoach this morning for Barcelona, stopping along the way to stretch your legs in Peniscola, a scenic seaside town. Here, you'll have some time on your ...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodations: Eurostars Cristal Palace or similar
Today, begin your exploration of Barcelona, the second-largest city in Spain and the capital of the autonomous region of Catalonia. Barcelona has been a vital center of trade ...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodations: Eurostars Cristal Palace or similar
Today you have the opportunity to explore Barcelona on your own. You might choose to wander through the winding alleyways of Barcelona’s old city center, or Barri Gotic (Goth...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodations: Eurostars Cristal Palace or similar
One of Barcelona's most significant contributions to the European cultural scene is its one-of-a-kind architecture, designed in the Catalan Modernist style. The man who spear...
Meals: Breakfast
Transfer to the airport today for your flight home. Or continue your tour of Spain as you begin your optional post-trip extension to Malaga.
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Accommodation
Ayre Hotel Astoria Palace
Valencia, Spain | Rating: Superior First Class
The Superior First-Class Ayre Hotel Astoria Palace is located near the Plaza de España, just minutes away from the historic old city and the scenic gardens of the Turia riverbed. The hotel features free wireless Internet and an on-site restaurant, while each room includes satellite television, free mineral water, safe deposit box, and private bath with hair dryer.
Eurostars Cristal Palace
Barcelona, Spain
The Eurostar Cristal Palace sits centrally Barcelona, in between the Passeig de Gracia and La Rambla, two of the city’s most fascinating roads, offering endless sights to visit within easy access. The hotel features complimentary wireless Internet access, and each air-conditioned room includes satellite TV, minibar, telephone, and private bath with hair dryer.
Number of days Prior to departure and the related cancellation charge
- 90 days or more- $300
- 89-60 days - 10% of selling price or $300—whichever is greater
- 59-30 days - 65% of selling price
- 29 days–departure - 100% of selling price
12 Breakfasts, 4 Lunches and 6 Dinners
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