Join a Local Expert for a guided walk through San Sebastián’s Old Quarter, exploring its streets and visiting Plaza de la Constitución. Discover the close-knit urban setting behind the city’s celebrated food culture.

Buildings around the square still display numbered balconies, a reminder of its past use as a bullring. The walk offers a perspective on Donostia–San Sebastián beyond its beaches, connecting its public spaces with the everyday life and history of the Basque city.

Share a farewell dinner at a local Barcelona restaurant with your Travel Director and fellow travellers. Raise a glass together over a meal in the Catalan capital.

Barcelona’s dining scene reflects Catalonia’s distinct language, traditions and relationship with the Mediterranean. The group setting makes this included meal an occasion to exchange favourite moments from the journey and close the tour around the table.

Taste madrileño flavours at a local Madrid restaurant as you meet your Travel Director and fellow travellers over dinner and wine. The shared table offers an introduction to the capital’s sociable dining culture.

Madrid’s restaurants draw on traditions from across Spain as well as the cooking of the surrounding region. Conversation over a leisurely meal gives this included dinner the feel of a welcome gathering rather than a routine hotel meal.

• 10 Breakfast (B)
• 3 Dinner (D)
• 1 Lunch (L)

• 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.

• Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.

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

Explore Spain’s capital with a Local Expert, taking in the elegant districts of Madrid of the Bourbons and the older streets at the city’s heart. See how broad avenues and formal civic spaces contrast with the compact street grid of the Old Quarter.

Trace Madrid’s growth from a small medieval settlement into the seat of the Habsburg court and a major European capital. Its market squares and historic buildings reveal how successive eras shaped the city visitors see today.

Explore the Prado Museum with a local art historian and examine works by Velázquez, Goya, Titian and Rubens. Expert guidance brings the paintings’ subjects, techniques and historical settings into focus.

Founded in 1819, the Prado holds masterpieces drawn in large part from Spain’s royal collections. Discover how royal patronage shaped the collection and how its Spanish paintings sit within a wider European artistic tradition.

Choose a city tour with a Local Expert through Santiago de Compostela’s historic centre. At Praza do Obradoiro, admire the cathedral’s richly ornamented facade and the square where pilgrims gather at the end of their journeys.

The cathedral is the traditional destination of the Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage network that has shaped the city for centuries. This included choice focuses on Santiago’s streets, architecture and enduring role as a place of arrival.

Choose to walk part of the Way of St. James with a Local Expert near Santiago de Compostela. Follow a scenic route through parks and gardens, experiencing the changing colours and textures of the landscape on foot.

Known as the Camino de Santiago, the route has drawn pilgrims towards the city’s cathedral for more than a millennium. This included alternative offers a glimpse of the journey itself, with space to appreciate its natural setting and cultural significance.

Meet local hosts on Asturias’ Green Coast for a homemade farm-to-table lunch prepared with locally sourced produce. Learn about traditional cider production and taste Asturian cider as part of this hosted food experience.

Cider is deeply woven into Asturian social life and the region’s agricultural heritage. By bringing travellers together with local producers and ingredients, the visit supports responsible consumption while offering a direct connection to the food culture of northern Spain.

Explore Oviedo with a Local Expert, discovering its 9th-century churches and ancient wall paintings. Visit the Cathedral of the Holy Savior in Plaza Alfonso II and admire its richly worked altarpiece.

Oviedo was an important centre of the early medieval Kingdom of Asturias, and its surviving churches preserve a distinctive pre-Romanesque artistic tradition. Together, the sacred buildings and cathedral reveal layers of religious art spanning many centuries.

Visit the Holy Cave of Covadonga, a sanctuary set into the mountains of Asturias. See the tomb of Pelayo, the leader traditionally associated with the Christian victory at the Battle of Covadonga in 722.

Covadonga holds a central place in Asturian identity and pilgrimage tradition. Its religious significance and dramatic rocky setting make the visit more than a historical stop: it is a chance to understand how landscape, faith and the region’s early medieval history are intertwined.

Venture into the foothills of Picos de Europa National Park and take in its steep mountains, rocky slopes and deep gorges. The scenery offers a striking contrast to the nearby green coastline of northern Spain.

One of Spain’s earliest national parks, the Picos de Europa protects a rugged limestone landscape shared by Asturias, Cantabria and Castile and León. Look out across terrain that has long shaped local routes, villages and mountain traditions.

Walk the cobblestone streets of Santillana del Mar, past stone houses decorated with carved heraldic symbols. The village’s lanes lead towards its historic church square, with time to appreciate the details of its remarkably preserved streetscape.

This Cantabrian village is celebrated for its medieval character, expressed in its old houses and intimate public spaces. Exploring on foot lets you notice the textures of the stonework and the quiet atmosphere behind its reputation as one of Spain’s most beautiful villages.

See Bilbao with your Travel Director on an orientation that includes the exterior of the Guggenheim Museum. Admire Frank Gehry’s sweeping, titanium-clad design and discover how it changed the city’s appearance.

Opened in 1997 beside the Nervión River, the museum became a symbol of Bilbao’s transformation from an industrial centre into a destination for art and design. This experience highlights the building and its urban setting; museum entry is not specified.

Pause in the Basque seaside town of Getaria to see El Ratón, the headland whose outline resembles a mouse from a distance. Take in the coastal view from a town closely connected to the Cantabrian Sea.

Getaria’s setting reflects the fishing heritage of the Costa Vasca, where harbour towns sit between steep green hills and the water. The distinctive silhouette of El Ratón gives this scenic stop a landmark to look for and remember.

Explore Barcelona with a Local Expert, travelling along Passeig de Gràcia and through the orderly streets of the Eixample to Gaudí’s Sagrada Família. If entry is available, step inside to see tree-like columns, soaring vaults and coloured light from its stained-glass windows.

The route reveals Barcelona’s Modernista architecture and a basilica still being completed more than a century after construction began. If access is restricted, visit Domènech i Montaner’s Hospital de Sant Pau instead and view the Sagrada Família’s exterior from its surrounding gardens.

Choose an optional excursion to Segovia to see its monumental Roman aqueduct, wander its medieval streets and view the turreted Alcázar. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Built without mortar, the aqueduct is an enduring feat of Roman engineering. Segovia’s old town brings together that ancient landmark with later medieval architecture, while the Alcázar’s dramatic towers offer a distinctive silhouette above the surrounding landscape.

Sample traditional Basque pintxos in San Sebastián and discover txikiteo, the custom of moving between bars for small bites and drinks. This optional evening experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Pintxos are a distinctive part of the city’s food culture, displayed along bar counters in combinations that invite conversation and comparison. Visiting bars as part of the local custom offers a sociable way to experience regional flavours.