Highlights of Spain & Portugal - C31220

Highlights

• Madrid: Panoramic sightseeing tour throughout the most important squares, avenues and buildings.
• Toledo: Panoramic view from Mirador del Valle and walk through it's old town. It has magnificent examples of architecture from different eras and styles: Mudejar, Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque.. that left as a legacy of the different cultures and civilizations, and visit to a Damascene handcraft workshop.
• Barcelona: Panoramic city sightseeing tour to know its main squares, avenues and monuments: Park of Montjuic, with spectacular views of the city, monument to Christopher Columbus and the old Gothic Quarter.
• Santiago de Compostela: Walking tour by the streets of the old quarters, and visit the Cathedral, a legendary center of pilgrimage where after traditions is the crypt of the apostle St. James.
• Sevilla: Wide panoramic sightseeing tour: Maria Luisa Park, Plaza de España, Cathedral (outside) Giralda Tower and the typical old Barrio de Santa Cruz with its streets, squares and narrow alleys.
• Cordoba: Panoramic walking tour by the old Jewish Quarter, and visit the magnificent Mosque, one of the most important in the Islamic World, built during the time of the Caliphs, with its magnificent forest of marble columns is whose center is a Christian Cathedral.
• Granada: Visit to the spectacular group of monuments of the Alhambra and Generalife, former residence of the Moorish kings, with its magnificent fountains, gardens and arches. *If in any case The Patronato of The Alhambra and Generalife, were not granted tickets for certain dates for the participants of the Visit, a tour of the city of Granada will be provided instead: Visit to the Palace of Carlos V, the Archaeological Museum, Church of Santa María de la Alhambra, Royal Chapel and a walk through the city Alcaiceria (silk market) and the Cathedral Square.
• Lisbon: Panoramic sightseeing tour of this beautiful city, located at the mouth of the Tagus River: Edward VII Park’s hilltop viewpoint, Rossio Square, Liberdade Avenue, Madragoa District (where Fado, the traditional Portugues music was born). We will continue to the Belem District, with its famous Tower, Monument to the Navigators, and Los Jeronimos Monastery.
• Fes: Panoramic tour to visit the Royal Palace and its 7 gates, the great Medina, mosques and more than 2000 squares, streets and alleys. Neighborhoods such as leather tanners or seamstresses…
• Marrakesh: Panoramic tour from Koutouia Mosque, the sumptuous Bahia Palace, Jewish quarter or Mellah to the Djmaa El Fna square, a living museum and intangible cultural heritage of Humanity.
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What's this trip about?

Including an official and expert multilingual local guides in Cordoba, Sevilla, Granada, Toledo, Lisbon, Porto, Santiago de Compostela, Barcelona, Madrid, Fes, Marrakesh and Rabat, including all required admission fees to all monuments as per itineraries. Our tour escort explain between cities and en route sightseeing. Bilbao, Caceres, Casablanca, La Coruña, Costa del Sol, Covadonga, Fatima, Meknes, Ronda, Salamanca, Santander, Santillana del Mar, Tangier, Trujillo… …In these places and cities there is a brief explanation made by the tour escort, and in some cases, as indicated in the itinerary, time free to walk freely and know the most important squares and monuments at your own leisure.

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