DAY 1 BARCELONA
Arrival to Barcelona and transfer to hotel.
Overnight at hotel.
Train tours
TOUR EN TREN BARCELONA-MADRID-ANDALUCÍA
8 days / 7 nights – Barcelona/Madrid/Sevilla/Cordoba Lo más destacado del país
Day 2 BARCELONA
Breakfast and overnight at hotel. Morning classic 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 3 BARCELONA-MADRID
Breakfast at hotel and high speed train to Madrid.
MADRID (625 kms, arrival in about 3 hrs). 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 around its active streets. Overnight at hotel in Madrid.
Day 4 MADRID
Breakfast and overnight at hotel. Panoramic 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 5 MADRID-SEVILLA
Breakfast at hotel and high speed train to Sevilla
SEVILLA (540 kms, arrival in about 2 hours 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 in Sevilla
DAY 6 SEVILLA
Breakfast and overnight at hotel. Morning 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 7 SEVILLA-CORDOBA
Breakfast at hotel and high speed train to Cordoba
CORDOBA (125 kms, arrival in about 45 minutes). 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 hotel in Cordoba.
Day 8 CORDOBA-MADRID
Breakfast at hotel and high speed train to Madrid
MADRID (400 kms, arrival in about 1 hr 50 minutes).