Best of Spain & Portugal

Welcome to Madrid! After your arrival at the airport, meet and greet your driver where you will be transferred to your hotel. Enjoy your first day in the city at your own leisure.

After breakfast, enjoy a panoramic tour of Madrid and journey through the history, art, and culture of Madrid through its streets, icons, and monuments. Discover the essence and avant-garde of historic and modern Madrid. See the places that no visitor should miss on a tour that runs through the historical and cosmopolitan areas of Madrid including the Puerta del Sol, Royal Palace, Prado Museum, Santiago Bernabéu Football Stadium of Real Madrid, and much more!

After breakfast, depart from Madrid to Salamanca. Free time in this University City of great architectural and artistic wealth. Departure to the Portuguese border until you reach Porto. Enjoy the rest of the day at your leisure.

Today enjoy a panoramic sightseeing tour of Porto, considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Admire the Cathedral, Stock Exchange building, and Santa Clara church. Afterward, enjoy a different perspective of the city along the river Douro aboard a cruise and discover the historic heritage by visiting one well-known Port Wine Cellar with a wine tasting included. Rest of day at leisure.

After breakfast, depart to Coimbra which is home to one of the oldest universities in Europe and the birthplace of Fado. Enjoy some free time before departing to Fatima. Fatima is one of the centers of the Christian Faith and a World Pilgrimage Sanctuary with its impressive Basilica and the Cova da Iria place where the Virgin Mary appeared. The Chapel of the Apparitions, the heart of the sanctuary, with the tombs of the three shepherds, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta. At night, you will have the possibility to attend the procession of the candles.

In the morning, depart to the Batalha Monastery, a masterpiece of Gothic and Manueline style considered a World Heritage place by UNESCO. Continue to the picturesque fishing town of Nazaré. Free time and continue to Alcobaça (World Heritage Site) with its Gothic church and Cistercian monastery, whose origins date back to the 12th century. Continue to Lisbon and enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.

After breakfast, enjoy a sightseeing tour of Lisbon, through its main squares and avenues, Belem Tower, Jeronimos Monastery, Monument to the Discoverers, Marquis of Pombal Square, and Liberty Avenue. Enjoy the afternoon at leisure to explore Lisbon on your own.

In the early morning, depart to the UNESCO city of Caceres, because of the city’s blend of Roman, Islamic, Northern Gothic, and Italian Renaissance architecture. Walkthrough the Plaza Mayor and the Old Town with its famous Medieval Quarter. Afterward, continue on towards Cordoba, once the capital of the Caliphate

After breakfast, enjoy an impressive tour of Cordoba’s Mosque (entrance included) and other sites that will ease your mind and spirit strolling through the narrow winding streets of the Jewish Quarter. In the afternoon, after a short two hours, the ride reaches Seville.

After breakfast, enjoy a morning panoramic city tour of Seville. Discover the Cathedral (the second largest in the Catholic world after St. Peters in Rome), Santa Cruz quarter (a natural scenario of “Carmen” as well as precisely where the myth of “Don Juan” developed), Maria Luisa Park, and Plaza de España. Afternoon at leisure for you to discover exclusive views, and specific flavors of this active full of light city.

After breakfast, drive east through the Caliphate road to the heart of Andalusia observing an endless number of olive trees on the way to Granada and its incredible and amazing monumental environment, the last stronghold of the Moorish Kingdoms up to 1492. Visit the world-famous Alhambra complex (entrance included) and Generalife Gardens which have inspired several authors with their sound and sights, such as the “Tales of the Alhambra” by W. Irving.

After breakfast, drive towards the beautiful Mediterranean coast. Via Murcia, the capital of the fertile garden of the Segura river, continues north via Alicante, the second-largest city within the region of Valencia. Reach Valencia one of the main capitals of the Mediterranean coast with its modern Arts and Sciences Architectural Complex integrated by six elements. Valencia is also the home of the internationally well-renowned and delicious Paella.

After breakfast, enjoy a morning city tour of Valencia including a drive through the old city showing the most prominent buildings. Continue towards the old riverbed of the Turia to the most avant-garde complex “Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias” to watch the emblematic exteriors of the six buildings. Early afternoon departure northward all along the Mediterranean coast to Catalunya, via Tarragona, the Roman Tarraco. Reach Barcelona, home of the famous architect Gaudí and symbol of Catalonian modernism.

After breakfast, enjoy a city tour of Barcelona, well known worldwide for the 1992 Olympic Games. Drive along the main avenues with impressive modernist buildings by Gaudí such as La Pedrera, Casa Milá, and more! See Montjuïc Park with spectacular views of the city and harbor, the Olympic Ring, the monument to Columbus, and the Olympic Port. Enjoy the afternoon exploring the city on your own.

Final breakfast followed by check-out and transfer to the airport.