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

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

• Madrid: Join your Travel Director at 18:00 for dinner in a local restaurant and get to know your fellow travellers over a beautiful evening of delicious food and wine.
• Barcelona: Your final evening brings the group together around the table in Barcelona. It’s a chance to share dinner in the Catalan capital, reminisce over the days you’ve travelled and mark the end of your journey across Spain and Portugal with one last meal together. 

• 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.

• Santiago de Compostela: Join a city tour with a Local Specialist and visit Praza do Obradoiro to admire the cathedral facade festooned with architectural frills.
• Santiago de Compostela: Embark on a scenic walk on part of the Way of St. James with a Local Specialist, through parks and gardens that transform with the seasons.

Visit the Prado Museum in the company of a specialist who illuminates Spain’s royal collections and the broader European canon. Trace courtly power and painterly revolution through Velázquez and Goya, alongside Titian and Rubens, within galleries that anchor Madrid’s famed museum mile.

Founded in 1819, the Prado became a showcase for dynastic taste and cultural prestige. Learn how technique, symbolism and patronage intersect in iconic works—from Habsburg portraiture to the drama of the Baroque—gaining context that enriches every canvas.

Join a guided tour through medieval streets to Praza do Obradoiro, where the baroque facade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela crowns the city. Your Local Specialist interprets sculpted portals, bell towers and pilgrim rituals at the terminus of Europe’s most storied route.

Inside, sense the centuries of devotion surrounding the pilgrimage to St. James. Hear about Romanesque foundations later embellished in Gothic and Baroque styles, and understand why this spiritual landmark anchors Galicia’s identity. Select this as one of your included choice experiences on day 4.

Embark on a scenic walk along a peaceful stretch of the Way of St. James, guided by a Local Specialist who shares symbols like the scallop shell and yellow arrow. Gentle paths weave through parks and seasonal gardens that frame the city’s towers and slate roofs.

Feel the contemplative rhythm that has drawn pilgrims for a millennium, pausing to notice granite crosses, ivy-draped walls and the sound of distant bells. Choose this included alternative to the cathedral visit on day 4 to experience the Camino spirit outdoors.

Meet welcoming hosts near Gijón for a Farm-to-Table lunch crafted from seasonal, locally sourced produce. Discover the ritual of Asturian cider, poured in the traditional high “escanciado” to aerate the drink and awaken its fresh, apple-bright aromas.

Stories of orchards, family recipes and rural resilience accompany each course. This experience supports responsible consumption and regional livelihoods, connecting you to the Green Coast’s landscape through its honest flavors and thoughtful stewardship.

Explore Pre-Romanesque churches such as Santa María del Naranco and San Miguel de Lillo, masterpieces of 9th-century Asturian art set on the green slopes of Monte Naranco. Their carved lattice windows and barrel vaults reveal a distinctive kingdom forged in the early Middle Ages.

In the historic core, visit the Cathedral of San Salvador on Plaza Alfonso II to admire its renowned golden altarpiece and the Cámara Santa’s treasured relics. Your Local Specialist traces Oviedo’s role as a spiritual and political beacon of the north.

Visit the Holy Cave of Covadonga, where a cliff-side shrine honors Our Lady and the tomb of Pelayo, hero of the 722 battle that seeded the Asturian monarchy. Candles flicker over a spring-fed grotto echoing with centuries of devotion.

Continue through Picos de Europa National Park, a realm of limestone pinnacles, deep gorges and high pastures. Panoramic stops reveal rugged horizons where cantabrian mists lift to unveil soaring cliffs and circling griffon vultures.

Stroll the cobbled lanes of Santillana del Mar, often cited as Spain’s most beautiful village. Stone mansions display heraldic coats of arms and wooden balconies scented with geraniums as you approach the Romanesque Colegiata de Santa Juliana.

Architecture from noble houses to arcaded plazas charts Cantabria’s prosperity on historic trade routes. Pause in the church square to absorb the texture of sandstone facades, rugged buttresses and weather-softened carvings shaped by Atlantic light.

See the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank Gehry’s icon of titanium curves that ripple beside the Nervión River. Your orientation highlights how daring design and cultural investment catalyzed the Basque city’s late-20th-century renewal.

From La Salve Bridge to riverside promenades, trace a dialogue between industrial heritage and contemporary creativity. Hear how public art, innovative cuisine and energetic neighborhoods steer Bilbao’s confident, outward-looking identity today.

Follow the rugged Costa Vasca, where fishing villages nestle between headlands and Atlantic swells. In Getaria, pause to admire El Ratón—Mount San Antón’s mouse-shaped silhouette—framing harbors lined with boats and sea-salted taverns.

Learn how maritime trade, shipbuilding and hillside txakoli vineyards shaped this coastline’s character. Camera-ready vistas capture wave-cut cliffs, gleaming beaches and slate-roofed towns anchored to the rhythm of the sea.

Join a guided walking tour through the Parte Vieja to Plaza de la Constitución, once a bullring, where numbered balconies overlook café life. Streets spill toward La Concha Bay, revealing Belle Époque facades and breezy seaside promenades.

Hear how royal summers and culinary ambition elevated San Sebastián’s profile. From elegant bandstands to market arcades, your Local Specialist spotlights civic pride, gastronomic tradition and Atlantic light that glints across the crescent shore.

Trace the city’s form along Passeig de Gràcia past Casa Batlló and La Pedrera, before reading the Eixample grid with its chamfered corners and Modernista flourishes. With a Local Specialist, step inside the Sagrada Família to see tree-like columns branching into a kaleidoscope of light.

Gaudí’s visionary synthesis of faith and geometry animates each facade and stained-glass hue. On some departures, interior access may be replaced with Hospital de Sant Pau and an in-depth exterior viewing, preserving the narrative of Catalan Art Nouveau.

Meet your Tour Director and traveling companions over a convivial evening in a local restaurant. Savor typical madrileño flavours—from market-fresh tapas to regional wines—while hearing stories that set the tone for the journey.

The city’s sociable spirit comes alive in lively dining rooms where plates are shared and glasses are raised. This hosted welcome offers warm introductions and a taste-led primer to Spain’s capital and its culinary heritage.

Share a farewell dinner in the Catalan capital, celebrating new friendships and flavors. Expect seasonal plates and Catalan cuisine—perhaps seafood rice, pa amb tomàquet and local wines—served in an atmospheric setting.

Stories from the road mingle with toasts to Gaudí’s skyline and the Mediterranean mood. This closing table captures Barcelona’s creative palate and the convivial rhythm that has threaded through your Spanish journey.

Discover Segovia on an optional visit to its Roman aqueduct, a feat of ancient engineering soaring above the old town. Wander medieval streets to the fairy-tale Alcázar of Segovia, perched high over river valleys.

UNESCO-listed heritage unfolds in golden stone, Gothic spires and turreted silhouettes that inspired generations of artists. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour with your Travel Director.

Sample traditional pintxos as you join the Basque ritual of txikiteo—a convivial circuit of Old Quarter bars pairing small bites with local pours. From anchovy-olive gildas to Idiazabal-topped toasts, each stop reveals craftsmanship and place.

Clink glasses of crisp txakoli and hear how seasonality, simplicity and technique define Basque flavor. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour with your Travel Director.

Insight Vacations

Join a guided panoramic tour revealing the elegance of Madrid of the Bourbons—from the tree-lined Paseo del Prado to the fountains of Cibeles and Neptune and the stately Puerta de Alcalá. Your Local Specialist introduces the grand avenues and civic spaces shaped under Enlightenment monarchs.

Venture into the compact “Austrias” to see Plaza Mayor and evocative lanes where Habsburg Madrid first flourished. Hear how markets, guilds and royal patronage forged a capital whose layers of architecture mirror Spain’s shifting dynasties and ambitions.