• 4 Dinner (D)
• 8 Breakfast (B)

• Business class coach with extended leg room
• Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants
• 4 & 5-star stays

• 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. Afterwards, sit down to eat the finished paella, tasting the layered flavor and socarrat crust you’ve just watched being made.
• Madrid: Sit down to dinner with your Travel Director and fellow travelers at a local restaurant.

• Granada: Visit the Alhambra Palace with a Local Specialist and walk through its courtyards, carved plasterwork and palace rooms from the Nasrid period. You’ll see how water channels, gardens and intricate detail define the complex, and how this hilltop site shaped Granada’s cultural and political story for centuries.
• 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.

Walk Valencia’s Old City with your Travel Director, tracing streets shaped by centuries and pausing by medieval gateways and traders’ halls. See the silhouette of La Lonja de la Seda, the Gothic silk exchange that once thrummed with mercantile life.

Contrast this historic core with the City of Arts and Sciences, where sweeping white curves and reflective pools by Santiago Calatrava sketch a futuristic skyline. Capture how past and present harmonize in Spain’s third-largest city.

Taste Valencia at its source as you learn to build an authentic paella in a family-run kitchen. Watch the saffron stock simmer, smell smoked paprika bloom, and hear the pan crackle as the prized socarrat crust forms.

Guided by a local chef, trace the dish’s roots in the Albufera rice fields and how ingredients—from rabbit and snails to tender beans—reflect Valencia’s terroir. Sit down together to enjoy the finished paella with regional wine.

Explore the Alhambra with a specialist, moving through Nasrid palaces where filigreed stucco, latticed windows, cedar ceilings and mirror-still pools shape an atmosphere of measured grace above Granada.

In the Generalife gardens, follow murmuring water channels beneath cypress shade and breathe the scent of roses and myrtle. Learn how this hilltop citadel guarded the last Muslim court in Iberia until the fall of Granada in 1492.

Walk the maze of the Santa Cruz Quarter, where orange trees scent sunlit plazas and wrought-iron balconies meet shadowed lanes. Step into the Seville Cathedral to take in vast Gothic vaults and the elegant Giralda tower rising from an earlier minaret.

Recognized as the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, the complex reveals a site transformed from mosque to cathedral after 1248. Pause by Columbus’s tomb and chapels layered with centuries of devotion.

Experience flamenco from within as you learn the basics of flamenco—compás, palmas and footwork—at the Cristina Heeren Foundation. Feel rhythm pass between guitar, song and dance as you practice with emerging artists.

This school nurtures new talent through scholarships and training supported by the TreadRight Foundation. A live performance crowns the session, revealing discipline, emotion and the living pulse of Andalusian culture.

Walk Córdoba’s historic core, crossing the Roman Bridge and winding through whitewashed lanes toward the Mezquita, where courtyards and patios open like cool, hidden rooms.

Inside, red-and-white arches ripple through a forest of columns before giving way to a Renaissance choir and chapels. Hear how Umayyad emirs forged a cultural capital that later blended Islamic and Christian art into a singular monument.

Explore Madrid’s Old Quarter, tracing Habsburg-era streets around Plaza Mayor, arcaded squares and wrought-iron balconies that map the rise of a royal capital.

At the Prado Museum, an art historian leads you to masterpieces by Velázquez, Goya, Titian and Rubens, placing each within Spain’s political and cultural story. Pause before Las Meninas to consider technique, patronage and power in one of Europe’s great collections.

Visit Montserrat, the mountain of serrated peaks that shelters the Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria. Enter the basilica to venerate the Black Madonna, a Romanesque statue closely tied to Catalan identity and pilgrimage.

Between jagged cliffs and monastery courtyards, learn how legend and geology shaped this site’s enduring appeal. This optional excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Stroll the Albaicín, Granada’s Moorish quarter of whitewashed houses, cobblestone alleys and jasmine-scented patios. Climb to the Mirador de San Nicolás for panoramic views of the Alhambra set against the Sierra Nevada.

A UNESCO-listed district, the neighborhood preserves the textures of al-Andalus in its cármenes and baths. This optional walk is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Visit Casa de Pilatos, a ducal mansion where Renaissance elegance meets Mudéjar craft. Admire patios laced with patterned azulejos, trickling fountains and filigreed stucco framing palm-dotted gardens.

Gaze up at artesonado ceilings and sculptures gathered during 16th-century Grand Tours. This optional visit is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Explore the Real Alcázar, a living royal palace of lace-like stone, exquisite tilework and scented gardens. Wander courtyards such as the Patio de las Doncellas before continuing to the pavilions of Plaza de América.

A UNESCO World Heritage site, the palace layers Islamic, Mudéjar and Renaissance artistry, while the plaza showcases Seville’s 1929 Ibero-American Exposition. This optional experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Journey to Toledo, the hilltop City of Three Cultures encircled by the Tagus gorge. Walk medieval lanes lined with workshops and synagogues, and see the Gothic cathedral’s soaring exterior dominate the skyline.

Once Spain’s capital, Toledo fostered exchanges among Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities that echo through its art and craft traditions. This optional excursion is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Explore the whitewashed lanes of Peñíscola’s headland as the 14th-century castle crowns a limestone promontory above sapphire water. Climb toward the ramparts and pause for photos over twin arcs of beach curving away on either side.

Raised by the Knights Templar, the fortress later sheltered Pope Benedict XIII (Papa Luna) during the Western Schism. Sea air, layered stonework and sweeping views create a vivid encounter with Mediterranean frontier history.

Insight Vacations

Discover Barcelona as you join a guided panoramic tour, tracing Passeig de Gràcia and the sharp Eixample grid past Modernista facades like Casa Batlló and La Pedrera. Your Local Specialist sets the city’s shape in motion as the skyline shifts and the Sagrada Família rises ahead.

Step inside the Sagrada Família, Gaudí’s still-rising basilica begun in 1882. Let your gaze follow tree-like columns into the soaring nave while a kaleidoscope of stained glass washes the stone in jewel tones, revealing Gaudí’s nature-inspired geometry and symbolism.

Taste Barcelona’s contemporary Catalan cuisine as you dine at La Pau, a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER Experience that pairs seasonal dishes with social purpose. Sit down to market-led flavors—grilled peppers, seafood rice, crema catalana—in a warm neighborhood setting.

Meals are prepared and served by young trainees gaining real-world skills and mentoring on their path to independent living. Your visit directly supports Reduced Inequalities (UN SDG 10), turning dinner into a meaningful contribution to the city you’re discovering.