Day 1: Arrival to Seville
No activities planned for the day. Welcome Dinner at a local restaurant.
Meals: Dinner
Day 2: Seville
After breakfast there will be a city tour with a local guide with a visit to the main Cathedral, Giralda Tower and Royal Alcazar. The rest of the day is at your leisure.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 3: Seville - La Palma del Condado
A short ride after breakfast takes us to La Palma del Condado. Here we will have a short walking tour through the town and visit Bodegas Rubio where we will taste some of the local products. Lunch will be at a local market and in the afternoon, we return to Seville. The evening is at your leisure.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Day 4: Seville - Carmona - Cordoba
After breakfast we depart for Carmona, a city known for traditional Andalusian cooking. Next, we do a pub crawl of various bars called “The Ruta de las Tapas' ' where we will drink other beverages from Wnise Los Hermanos, distilled and packaged in Carmona. We will arrive in Cordoba in the afternoon.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Day 5: Cordoba
We do a city tour of Cordoba after breakfast and see the Alcazar de Los Reyes Cristianos (The Alcazar of the Christian Monarchs) with its beautiful gardens and fountains which dates to 1328. The fortress was one of the many primary residences of King Ferdinand II and Isabella. Our next sight is Torre de la Calahorra, a fortified gate in the historic city center. The tower hosts an interesting museum showcasing the life, culture, and philosophy of 10th century Cordoba. The rest of the day is at your leisure.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 6: Cordoba - Jaén
After breakfast we depart for Baeza, famous for having some of the best-preserved examples of Italian Renaissance architecture in Spain. Along with Ubeda, it was added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites in 2003. We continue to Ubeda to enjoy churches and palaces built by the leading families of the time. We will see the Palacio de Las Cadenas, the Basilica de Santa Maria de Los Reales Alcázares, and The Chapel del Salvador, a mausoleum of local viceroys. We enjoy lunch and then continue to Jaen where we will stay in a 16th century palace once in the Moorish Quarter.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Day 7: Jaén
We start the day with a city tour. Jaén is an administrative and industrial center of the province, housing tanneries, distilleries, cookie and textile factories. Along the tour we will sample some of the local products. The remainder of the day is at your leisure.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 8: Jaén - Granada
We depart after breakfast and stop briefly at the Fortress de la Motta on our way to Alcala la Real. We arrive in Granada around lunch time where we will have a Paella cooking class (inside of a cave!). On the menu is seafood risotto, Spanish potato omelet, Andalusian salmorejo and Catalan cream. The evening features a Flamenco show at Templo del Flamenco with a drink.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Day 9: Granada
The morning will be dedicated to the Alhambra Complex with the Nasrid Palaces and Gardens. This is sure to be one of the highlights of the tour. The rest of the day is at your leisure.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 10: Granada - Malaga
We depart Granada after breakfast with a stop enroute at Almunecar and visit the excavated ruins of the Phoenician fish salting factory, the Roman aqueduct and the Castle of San Miguel. There will be time for shopping and lunch on your own. We will continue to Malaga where we will have dinner in a local restaurant.
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Day 11: Malaga
After breakfast we will do a Malaga city tour and a horse and carriage ride. The remainder of the day is free for your pleasure.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 12: Malaga - Rhonda
We will take a day trip to Rhonda, one of the most spectacularly located cities in Spain. The city has famously sheltered outlaws and rebels as well as actors, writers, and directors such as Ernest Hemingway, and Orson Welles. During our city tour we will visit La Ciudad, a classic Moorish “pueblo blanco'' or white city, and the Palacio Mondragon which is adorned with original Moorish mosaics. We stop at El Mercadillo, one of the oldest and most important buildings in Spain. Lunch will be in a local restaurant, and we return to Malaga late in the afternoon.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Day 13: Málaga - Gibraltar - Cadiz
We depart early for Gibraltar. We tour the famous Rock of Gibraltar with a cable car and see the 200-year-old tunnels, ruins of Moorish castles, and over 100 caves, including St. Michael cave. We will see the native Macaws and cross the Windsor Suspension Bridge which crosses over a 164-foot-deep gorge. From the hilltop, we enjoy spectacular views. We arrive in Cadiz late afternoon.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 14: Cadiz - Jerez De La Frontera
Our morning consists of a tour of Cadiz with its interesting watch towers, ancient city walls, and unusual cathedral of various architectural styles. We also see the Roman theater. After the tour it is “tapas time” and we continue to Jerez De La Frontera, Spain’s cherry liquor capital. There we have a farewell dinner and return to Cadiz.
Day 15
After breakfast we depart for the airport.
