İZMİR – BARCELONA
After being present at İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport International Terminal 3 hours before our flight time and completing baggage check-in, ticket, and passport control procedures, we fly to Barcelona at 18:55 on SunExpress Airlines’ direct and scheduled flight number XQ894. Following our arrival at Barcelona Airport at 21:35 local time, transfer to our hotel with the vehicle waiting for us at the airport. Free time to receive the rooms and rest.
BARCELONA – (Barcelona Local Neighborhoods Tour) – (Fiesta Barcelona Tour)
After breakfast, free time for the whole day. During this free time, guests who wish may join the extra Barcelona Local Neighborhoods Tour (45 Euro). After this tour, where Barcelona Cathedral, Paral-Lel and Gothic neighborhoods, El Born, City Hall, Plaza Real, and the market place La Boqueria will be seen, guests who wish may join our extra Fiesta Barcelona Tour (55 Euro) program during the free time that will be offered. In our tour, we visit Poble Espanyol, an open-air museum & festival village concept created for the 1929 World Fair, where typical architectural examples, craft workshops, artworks, and traditional cultural elements from different regions of Spain are brought together. Poble Espanyol, which is lively at all hours of the day throughout the year, hosts various music, dance, street performances, and cultural activities, and offers visitors a unique experience where they can see characteristic elements of all Spain. After our visit to Poble Espanyol and the free time we will offer thereafter, we complete our tour and return to our hotel in the Barcelona region.
BARCELONA – (Girona & Figueres & Dali Museum and Outlet Tour)
After breakfast, we offer a full day of free time. During this free time, guests who wish may join the extra Girona & Figueres & Dali Museum and Outlet Tour (95 Euro) program. Our visit point on this tour will be Girona, the largest city in Catalonia, which enchants visitors with its museums, galleries, Gothic architectural works, and walls rising around its cobblestone narrow labyrinthine streets. On our excursion in Girona, we will see and photograph the colorful houses lined along the Onyar River, which divides the city in two, and we will take a walk along Libertat Street, which is closed to traffic and opens onto narrow streets in a maze-like fashion in the old town square surrounded by walls. In the city where Christians, Catalan Jews, and Muslims lived together throughout history, we will complete our tour with a panoramic view of Girona Cathedral and then head to our next visit point, the Dali Museum in Figueres. After a short sightseeing tour in Figueres, which is home to the museum Salvador Dali designed from a theater building to place his works while he was still alive, we will visit the Dali Museum (entrance fee included in the tour price) and, accompanied by our guide, take an art tour in the museum housing 4,000 of Dali’s works. In the final part of our tour, we visit the Outlet Center. At this outlet center, which hosts elegant stores of many prestigious and famous brands, cafes and restaurants, and personal activity areas, we will offer free time for pleasant and affordable shopping. After this free time, we complete our tour and return to our hotel in the Barcelona region.
BARCELONA – (Barcelona Icons Tour) – VALENCIA – (Paella with Dinner and Valencia Night Tour)
After breakfast, we set out for Valencia. Along the way, guests who wish may join the extra Barcelona Icons Tour (65 Euro) program. First, on our tour, we go up to Carmel Hill, where we can enjoy the magnificent view of the city, and visit Park Guell, designed and built by Antoni Gaudi. “entrance fee included” We offer free time for photography and sightseeing in Guell Park, which took its place on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1984 and takes its visitors into a fairy-tale land with its vibrant colors and nature-inspired figures. Then we will see Casa Mila, one of the most important works Gaudi brought to the city’s architecture (Gaudi’s House), and complete our tour with a walk around La Sagrada Familia. At the end of the tour, we continue our journey to Valencia. Upon arrival at our hotel in Valencia, room check-in and free time to rest. In the evening, guests who wish may join the extra Paella with Dinner and Valencia Night Tour (65 Euro) program. On this tour, we will discover Valencia, Spain’s 3rd largest city, which fascinates visitors with its works bearing the historical and modern architectural characteristics of the past and the present, under the evening lights. In Valencia, the birthplace of Spain’s world-famous Paella, after dinner at a local restaurant, we return to our hotel after completing our tour, during which we will offer free time in the port area and on the famous coastline.
VALENCIA – MADRID
After breakfast and check-out from the hotel, we organize our Valencia city tour. In our panoramic city tour, the Gothic Cathedral, Valencia Cathedral, the medieval walls Torres de Serranos surrounding the old city, Reina Square, the Palace of the Marques de dos Aguas, and Town Hall Square are among the places to see. After the tour, we set out for Madrid. Madrid, the capital of the Kingdom of Spain and also the third largest city in the European Union, is considered the country’s political, economic, and cultural center. During the city tour we will carry out in Madrid, where statues, monuments, and natural beauties merge with modern architecture, Plaza Mayor, Paseyo de la Castellana, the bullring, Gran Via, Plaza de Espana, the Royal Palace, and Puerto de Alcala are the panoramic sights. After a short free time following the city tour, transfer to our hotel in the Madrid region. Room check-in and free time to rest.
MADRID – (Toledo Tour) – GRANADA – (Sacremento & Gypsy Show)
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we set out for Granada. Along the way, guests who wish may join the extra Toledo Tour (50 Euro) program. Upon arrival in Toledo, we organize our tour. Founded by Jews in 590 BC, and today one of the most important cities in Spain in historical and tourist terms, where people belonging to three major religions live together peacefully, Toledo is also known as the “city of knights.” The Tajo River, the largest river on the Iberian Peninsula, passes through the city. The city was the capital of the Kingdom of Spain for a long time. Since it is one of the largest medieval cities in the world, it has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List and taken under protection. Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, was born in this city. Toledo Cathedral, which took approximately 270 years to build, was formerly a mosque and today is the world’s 3rd most important cathedral and Spain’s main cathedral, housing some of the world’s most expensive works; San Martin Bridge; Damasquinos (Damascene work); workshops and shops where gold handcrafting is done are among the places to be seen panoramically on our tour. After the tour, we continue our journey to Granada. Upon arrival in Granada, we organize our panoramic city tour. Founded on fertile lands at the foot of the Sierra Navada Mountains, Granada is one of Spain’s most touristic cities. In our panoramic tour in the city, which throughout its rich history was mainly influenced by the Romans and the Umayyads and hosts the Al Hambra Palace, among the sights in the historical Andalusian/Granada streets, between works from the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, are the Queen Isabelle and Christopher Columbus Statue, Grand Via, La Rambla, and the Town Square. After the city tour, transfer to our hotel. Room check-in and free time to rest. In the evening, we organize the extra Sacremento & Gypsy Show (45 Euro) program with our guests who wish to join. On the opposite slope of Al Hambra, in Sacramonte, one of Granada’s oldest settlements with its snow-white houses, where we can watch and photograph the red walls of Al Hambra Palace from afar through every opening in its labyrinth-like, winding, steep, and stepped streets, we watch the Gypsy Show. After the tour, we return to our hotel.
GRANADA – (Alhambra Palace) – MALAGA – (Ronda Tour) – SEVILLE
After breakfast and hotel check-out, during the free time that will be offered, guests who wish may join the extra Al Hambra Palace Tour (65 Euro) program. We see the Al Hambra Palace, one of the most extraordinary memories not only of Andalusia but of all Islamic history, famous for its Arabesque architecture, pools, and gardens, and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. “entrance fee included” (carried out depending on the palace’s availability and excluding the harem entrance). At the end of the tour, we head to Malaga. Along the way, guests who wish may join the extra Ronda Tour (50 Euro) program. Ronda, with its narrow winding streets and whitewashed houses, the town of Ronda is famous for being built on a dune hill and is divided into two by the El Tajo Canyon. At the bottom of the canyon, at a depth of 120 meters, the Guadalevin River flows. Puento Nuevo (New Bridge), where we can photograph the most beautiful views of the river, Plaza De Toros, the Old Town, Santa Maria la Mayor Church, and Mondragon Palace are among the places we can see panoramically during our city tour. At the end of the tour, we continue our journey to Malaga. Upon arrival in Malaga, panoramic city tour. Malaga, the 2nd largest city in Andalusia and the 6th most populous city in all of Spain, is located on the Costa Del Sol coastline. Thanks to this advantageous location, it is one of the important holiday routes in the Mediterranean. During the panoramic city tour we will carry out in Malaga, which also hosts the Picasso Museum, the Malaga Cathedral, built as a sign of the end of Muslim rule and still partially incomplete to this day, Palaza de la Merced, and Torre de la Vela, which has become the symbol of Malaga, are among the main sights. At the end of the Malaga city tour, we set out for Seville. Upon arrival at our hotel in the Seville region, room check-in and free time to rest.
SEVILLE – CORDOBA – (Kurtuba Mosque & Cathedral Tour) – SEVILLE – (Flamenco Show)
After breakfast, we move to Cordoba. In our panoramic Cordoba city tour, we discover Cordoba, founded during the Roman Empire period and, in the 10th century, the largest city in Europe under the protection of the Islamic state. In our city tour in the city center, where we can still see Islamic influences and which was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1984, the Alcazar De Los Reyes Cristianos, Royal Palace, and Roman Bridge, with its 1,000-year history, are among the panoramic sights. After our visit to Cordoba, during the free time we will offer, guests who wish may join our Kurtuba Mosque & Cathedral Tour (45 Euro) program. On our tour, we visit the Kurtuba Mosque & Cathedral “entrance fee included.” In terms of size, it is the 3rd largest mosque in Islamic history, and as one of the two greatest examples of Spain’s Moorish past, it is a major attraction on its own. The structure, which for centuries alternated between Islam and Christianity, is currently used as a Catholic church. At the end of the tour, we return to Seville and organize our city tour. Seville, the most populous and most developed city in Andalusia, owes its exotic and rich cultural history to the period of rule by the Moors, North African Muslims in its history. We explore Seville amid beautiful and magnificent cathedrals, squares, palaces, museums, towers, and churches. During our tour, the Plaza de Espana (Spain Square), where some scenes of Star Wars 2 were filmed, the octagonal Torro del Oro (Golden Tower), which was originally established for defensive purposes but later also used as a prison, the Sevilla Cathedral, the Giralda Bell Tower, one of the world’s 3rd largest Gothic cathedrals and on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1987, and Maria Luisa Park are among the panoramic sights. After our tour, during the free time that will be offered in the city center, guests who wish may join the extra Flamenco Show (60 Euro) program. After the world-famous Flamenco performance, known as the cry of the lower class to the upper class and where dance comes to life, transfer to our hotel in the Seville region. Free time to rest.
SEVILLE – SINTRA – CABO DA ROCA – ESTORIL – CASCAIS – LISBON – (Lisbon Night Tour with Dinner) – (Fado Show)
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we set out for Lisbon and, upon arrival, we carry out our Atlantic Coasts Tour program consisting of Sintra, Cabo da Roca, Estoril, and Sintra towns. Our first stop on the tour will be the town of Sintra. Sintra will welcome us with its boutique shops, colorful and ornate houses reminiscent of castles, and cobblestone streets. However, the most important feature that led to the town’s inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List is its architectural monuments and buildings from the Romantic Period. After our Sintra visit, during which we will travel through streets and avenues surrounded by palaces and churches, our next stop will be Cabo da Roca, called “the End of the World” and the westernmost point of the European Continent. After a short break where you can take photos of the ocean and the famous beaches frequented by surfers, we continue our tour with panoramic sightseeing in Cascais, a fishing town, and Estoril, one of the most famous resort areas known as Lisbon’s backyard, with its SPA and thermal hotels, parks and golf courses, and also famous for the casino sections in the first Bond novel, Casino Royale. At the end of the tour, we arrive in the center of Lisbon. During the free time offered here, guests who wish may join the extra Lisbon Night Tour with Dinner (55 Euro) program. On our tour, first we proceed along the Tagus River and panoramically follow the Cais do Sodré and Ribeira das Naus route. The illuminated waterfront road offers Lisbon’s modern face with a pleasant view in the evening hours. Then we will panoramically see the outer surroundings of the Alfama slopes, which are historical but not included in our daytime tour. The illuminated silhouette of the narrow streets allows us to observe the city’s traditional texture in the evening hours. Then we panoramically view the evening ambiance of Praça do Comércio from the outside. The square’s yellow arcades and its illuminated setting by the riverside create one of Lisbon’s most impressive evening views. After the night tour, we complete our tour with dinner at a local restaurant and offer free time. During this free time, guests who wish may join the extra Fado Show (45 Euro) program. On our tour, we join the Fado Show, where we will listen to Fado music, unique to Portugal, which emerged from the emotional and sorrowful laments of sailors’ wives and became world-famous. After the tour, transfer to our hotel in the Lisbon region, room check-in and free time to rest.
LISBON – (Lisbon Masterpieces Tour) – OBIDOS – PORTO
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we set out for Obidos. Along the way, guests who wish may join the extra Lisbon Masterpieces Tour (55 Euro) program. Lisbon, the capital of Portugal and also a city with 2 shores like Istanbul, is the 6th most visited city in Europe throughout the year. Governed throughout history under the rule of the Phoenicians, Romans, North African Muslims, and finally the Portuguese, Lisbon, with this history extending back to 1200 BC, hosts many historical works. During the tour we will carry out in Lisbon, the historical part of the city where Rossio Square and St. Georges Castle are located, and the Santa Justa Elevator are among the main sights. After the city tour, we offer free time in the city center. Continuing our city tour, Belem Tower and the Monument to the Discoveries, built during the age of geographical discoveries and carrying symbolic importance for Portugal, will be seen and free time for a photo break will be given. Then Avenida de Liberdade, known as Lisbon’s Champs Elysees, famous for its cafes, quality shops, and restaurants, is among the places to see, and we will have the opportunity to discover the city of Lisbon from different angles. After the tour, we continue our journey to Obidos. In the medieval town of Obidos, surrounded by walls on a hill and with cobblestone streets that make visitors feel the architectural features of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Gothic periods, the Roman-origin Obidos Castle, Saint John Baptist Church, and Rua Direita, which attracts the most visitors as the town’s main street, are among the main sights. After the Obidos Tour, we head to Porto. Upon arrival at our hotel in the Porto region, room check-in and free time to rest.
PORTO – (Porto Masterpieces Tour) – İZMİR
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we set out for Porto Airport for our return flight to İzmir. Along the way, guests who wish may join the extra Porto Masterpieces Tour (55 Euro) program. Porto is a historic city located in northern Portugal, on the banks of the Douro River. In our panoramic city tour, we will see the city’s UNESCO-protected historical texture and landmark structures. On our tour, we first proceed along Avenida dos Aliados. This avenue, one of Porto’s widest boulevards, is among the areas to be seen panoramically with its historic granite-stone buildings and views of the city hall. Afterwards, we will see São Bento Train Station from the outside. The blue-and-white azulejo tiles on the station’s interior walls present scenes from Portuguese history. On our route, Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto) will be seen panoramically from the outside. The cathedral area, located on one of the city’s highest points, is one of the places where a short break will be given to photograph Porto’s historic center. Then we proceed panoramically along the Ribeira District, which stands out with its narrow streets and traditional houses. After that, the UNESCO-listed Luís I Bridge will be seen panoramically. The bridge’s iron structure creates one of the city’s most recognizable silhouettes. From here, we reach the Clérigos Tower and Livraria Lello area; the tower will be seen panoramically from the outside and the exterior of Lello can be photographed. We complete the tour by seeing Bolhão Market and the surrounding commercial axis. This area, where local products are sold, is one of the places where we can observe Porto’s daily life. After a short free time to be given at the end of the Porto Masterpieces Tour, we continue our journey to the airport. After completing the ticket, baggage check-in, and passport control procedures upon arrival at the airport, we fly to İzmir at 17:35 on SunExpress Airlines’ direct and scheduled flight number XQ849. Arrival at İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport at 23:55 local time and the end of our tour.