Highlights of Spain Small Group, Summer

Dining Summary:
4 Dinner (D)
8 Breakfast (B)

Choice Highlights:
Choose between two carefully selected activities
Seville: Join a guided walk through the Santa Cruz quarter, following a street pattern shaped by Seville 's medieval Jewish community until the 14th century. You 'll navigate narrow lanes, enclosed courtyards and small plazas reflect the district 's earlier layout, with surviving architectural elements that point to the neighborhood 's social and cultural history within the wider city.
Seville: Take a panoramic drive around Seville to observe the city 's main districts and landmarks, including the riverfront near Torre del Oro, the avenues created for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition and the open spaces around María Luisa Park.

Additional Included Highlights:
Personal radio headsets give you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights, without missing any of your Local Expert's fascinating commentary.
Hotel and restaurant tips are included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. We also include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.
We carry your bags for you and promptly deliver them to your hotel door.
From time to time, your Travel Director will delight you with an Insight Flourish, which is a local specialty representing the destination.
Stay connected with friends and family with our complimentary coach and hotel Wi-Fi (where available).
If your arrival and/or departure flights are as per the itinerary start and end dates, then transfers are available at scheduled times. If your flights are outside these times, or you have booked additional nights accommodation with Insight Vacations, you may purchase transfers or make your own way from/to the airport.

Authentic Dining:
Valencia: Spend time with a chef in a family-run kitchen to see how Valencian paella is built from its base — the heat of the pan, the saffron stock, the type of rice and the order ingredients go in. The session shows why the dish varies from village to village across the region. Later, dinner offers the chance to taste a paella prepared in this same tradition.
Madrid: Toast to your travels and enjoy local specialties in one of the city's elegant central neighborhoods.

Insight Choice:
Seville: Join a guided walk through the Santa Cruz quarter, following a street pattern shaped by Seville 's medieval Jewish community until the 14th century. You 'll navigate narrow lanes, enclosed courtyards and small plazas reflect the district 's earlier layout, with surviving architectural elements that point to the neighborhood 's social and cultural history within the wider city.
Seville: Take a panoramic drive around Seville to observe the city 's main districts and landmarks, including the riverfront near Torre del Oro, the avenues created for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition and the open spaces around María Luisa Park.

Insight Experiences:
Granada: Visit the famous Alhambra Palace and Generalife Gardens. While others wait in line, you'll be exploring accompanied by a Local Expert, keen to share insights into this Moorish landmark.
Madrid: Visit the Prado Museum with an art historian who places key works within their historical setting. With your historian 's expert guidance, you 'll examine paintings by Velázquez, Goya, Titian and Rubens, noting their connection to royal patronage and the broader European tradition. Learn how the museum, founded in 1819, became a principal repository for Spain 's royal collections and major works from across the continent.

Make Travel Matter:
Barcelona: Dine at La Pau, an acclaimed restaurant for the quality of its seasonal menu and social impact. This social initiative generates quality employment to young people and guides them through their transition to adult life. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequality. La Pau gives a voice and life opportunity to young people who have been marginalized from the traditional educational and social systems.
Seville: The Cristina Heeren Foundation promotes the teaching and preservation of flamenco and is supported by a TreadRight Foundation grant. Meet students, learn a few basic steps and watch them perform, gaining insight into how the school trains young artists in guitar, singing and dance. Your visit directly supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education.

Top Rated Highlights:
Barcelona: Drive through Barcelona with a Local Expert who sets out the city 's shape from street level — the long run of Passeig de Gràcia, the sharp grid of the Eixample and the way the skyline shifts as the Sagrada Família comes into view. The route ties together the city 's Modernista detail and its ongoing architectural change.
Peñíscola: See Peñíscola 's 14th-century castle rising above the old town, set on a limestone headland that divides the shoreline. From this viewpoint, you can take in how the fortress once controlled movement along the coast and how its walls still define the outline of the medieval quarter below.
Valencia: Get your bearings in Valencia 's Old City as your Travel Director points out the surviving medieval gateways and the street grid shaped by centuries of expansion. The walk contrasts the tight lanes of El Carmen with the broad lines of the Turia riverbed, now home to the City of Arts and Sciences, a reminder of how the city blends long history with confident modern design.
Seville: Visit the Seville Cathedral with your Local Expert. Pass the altarpiece dripping with gold and see the Tomb of Columbus, held aloft by four kings.
Córdoba: See the 2,000-year-old Roman bridge and spend some time exploring the town.
Córdoba: Visit the incredible Mezquita with your Local Expert. Admire the forest of horseshoe arches and learn how this building symbolises many of Cordoba's religious changes over the centuries.
Madrid: See the highlights of the city with your Local Expert. Visit the Old Town, traveling along the elegant Paseo de la Castellana, past the fountain in the Plaza de Cibeles, the Cervantes Monument and Royal Palace, before crossing the Puerta del Sol.

Well-being:
Enjoy the comfort of Insight's luxurious, air-conditioned, 40-seat coach with double the standard legroom and onboard washroom. Our customized luxury coaches are sanitized before the start of your tour and are maintained to very high standards. Physical distancing measures have been implemented on our customized luxury coaches.
Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

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