Spain and Andalusia Icons Tour with Pegasus Airlines 7 Nights Barcelona Arrival – Madrid Departure || 16192

İSTANBUL – BARCELONA
After completing baggage drop-off, ticket, and passport control procedures at Sabiha Gökçen Airport International Terminal, and arriving 3 hours before our flight, we fly to Barcelona at 10:05 on Pegasus Airlines scheduled flight PC1091. After our arrival in Barcelona at 11:45 local time, we organize our panoramic Barcelona city tour with our private bus waiting for us at the airport. On our tour, we first go up to Montjuic Hill, where we can enjoy a panoramic view of the entire city. Here, after a photo stop with the city’s unique and breathtaking view, among the places to be seen panoramically are the Christopher Columbus Monument, Plaza de Espana, and Port Olimpic (marina). After free time in the city center, transfer to our hotel. Room check-in and free time for rest.
BARCELONA – (Barcelona Icons Tour) – (Barcelona Local Neighborhoods Tour) – (Fiesta Barcelona Tour)
After breakfast, we offer a full day at leisure. Our guests who wish may join our extra Barcelona Icons Tour (65 Euro). On our tour, we first go up to Carmel Hill, where we can enjoy the city’s magnificent view, and visit Park Guell, designed and built by Antoni Gaudi (entrance fee is included in the extra tour price). In Guell Park, which was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1984 and takes its visitors into a fairytale world with its vivid colors and nature-inspired figures, we offer free time for photos and sightseeing. Then we will see Casa Mila, one of the most important works Gaudi added to urban architecture (Gaudi’s House), and complete our tour with a walk around La Sagrada Familia. During the free time we offer in the city center, 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, our guests who wish may join our extra Fiesta Barcelona Tour program (55 Euro) during the free time that follows. On our tour, we visit Poble Espanyol, built for the 1929 World Fair and designed as an open-air museum & festival village concept bringing together typical architectural examples, craft workshops, artworks, and traditional cultural elements from different regions of Spain. After our visit to Poble Espanyol, which is lively at all hours throughout the year, featuring various music, dance, street performances, and cultural activities, hosting restaurants, and offering visitors a unique experience where they can see characteristic elements of all Spain, and the free time we will provide afterward, we complete our tour and return to our hotel.
BARCELONA – (Girona & Figueres & Dali Museum Tour)
After breakfast, a full day at leisure. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Girona & Figueres & Dali Museum Tour (90 Euro). Our first stop on this tour will be Girona, the largest city in Northern Catalonia, enchanting its visitors with its museums, galleries, Gothic-style architectural works, and walls rising around its narrow, cobblestone, labyrinth-like streets. In our excursion in Girona, we will see and photograph the colorful houses lined along the Onyar River that divides the city in two, and we will walk on Libertat Street, a traffic-free street in the old town square surrounded by walls, with each exit leading into narrow maze-like streets. In the city where Christians, Catalan Jews, and Muslims lived together throughout history, we will complete our tour by seeing Girona Cathedral panoramically and then set off for Figueres. After a short sightseeing tour in Figueres, 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 is included in the extra tour price) and, accompanied by our guide, go on an art tour in the museum housing Dali’s 4,000 works. At the end of the tour, we return to our hotel and offer free time.
BARCELONA – VALENCIA – (Valencia Masterpieces and Lunch Paella Tour) – ALICANTE
After breakfast and our hotel check-out procedures, we depart for Valencia. In Valencia, the 3rd largest city in Spain by population and home to the country’s largest port, historical buildings and modern architectural works create great harmony. At the same time, Valencia hosts Las Fallas, which heralds spring, and the Tomato Festival known as La Tomatina, which has been ongoing for 70 years. After our panoramic city tour upon arrival in Valencia, we offer free time in the new city center. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Valencia Masterpieces and Lunch Paella Tour (65 Euro – 1 drink included). On our tour, the Gothic Cathedral, Valencia Cathedral, the medieval walls surrounding the old city, Torres de Serranos, Reina Square, Mauques de dos Aguas Palace, and Town Hall Square are among the places to be seen. In Valencia, the homeland of Spain’s world-famous Paella, we will offer free time in the port area and the famous coastline after lunch at a local restaurant. After the tour, transfer to our hotel in the Alicante region. Room check-in and free time for rest.
ALICANTE – GRANADA – (Al Hambra Palace Tour) – SEVILLE – (Flamenco Show)
After breakfast, we complete our hotel check-out procedures and depart for Granada. Granada, founded on fertile lands at the foot of the Sierra Navada Mountains, is one of Spain’s most touristic cities. In our panoramic tour of the city, which throughout its rich history was mainly influenced by the Romans and the Umayyads and hosts the Al Hambra Palace, among the places to be seen in the historic Andalusian/Granada streets with Umayyad and Abbasid-era works are the Christopher Columbus Monument, Grand Via, La Rambla, and the City Square. Free time after the city tour. Guests who wish may join our extra Al Hambra Palace Tour (65 Euro). 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 Cultural Heritage List. (It is organized according to palace availability. Entrance fee is included in the extra tour price and excludes the harem entrance). After our visit to Al Hambra, we depart for Seville. Upon arrival in Seville, the largest city of Andalusia and the center of Flamenco, guests who wish may join the extra Flamenco Show (60 Euro) during the free time we will offer in the city center. After the world-famous Flamenco show, known as the cry of the lower class to the upper class and where dance comes to life, transfer to our hotel and free time to rest.
SEVILLE – (Seville Masterpieces and Walking Tour) – CORDOBA – (Cordoba Mosque and Cathedral Tour) – MADRID
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we offer free time. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Seville Masterpieces and Walking Tour (65 Euro). Seville, the most crowded and developed city in Andalusia, owes its exotic and rich cultural history to the period in which it was under the rule of North African Muslims, the Moors, throughout its history. We explore Seville accompanied by beautiful and magnificent cathedrals, squares, palaces, museums, towers, and churches. During our tour, among the places to be seen panoramically are Plaza de Espana, where some scenes of Star Wars 2 were filmed, Torro del Oro (Golden Tower), which was originally built for defense but later used as a prison, Seville Cathedral and the Giralda Bell Tower, which is the world’s 3rd largest Gothic cathedral and has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1987, and Maria Luisa Park. After our tour, we depart for Cordoba. Upon arrival in Cordoba, we explore Cordoba, founded during the Roman Empire and, in the 10th century, the largest city in Europe under the protection of the Islamic state. In the city center, where we can still see Islamic influences and which was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1984, our city tour will include the Cordoba Mosque-Cathedral, Roman Bridge, St. Nicola Church, and Jewish Quarter as panoramic sights, with a history spanning 1000 years. At the end of the tour, during the free time we will offer, guests who wish may join our extra Cordoba Mosque and Cathedral Tour (45 Euro) accompanied by our local guide. “entrance fee included” After our panoramic city tour in Cordoba, we set off for Madrid. Transfer to our hotel in the Madrid region. Room check-in and free time for rest.
MADRID – (Toledo Tour) – (Madrid Masterpieces and Outlet Tour)
After breakfast, we offer free time. Guests who wish may join the extra Toledo Tour (65 Euro). Founded by the Jews in 590 BC, and today home to people belonging to three major religions living together peacefully, Toledo is one of Spain’s most important cities in historical and touristic terms and is also known as the “City of Knights.” The Tagus, the largest river on the Iberian Peninsula, flows through the city. The city was the capital of the Kingdom of Spain for a long time. As one of the world’s largest medieval cities, it has been included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List and placed under protection. Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, was born in this city. The Toledo Cathedral, which took approximately 270 years to build, was formerly a mosque and today is the world’s 3rd most important and Spain’s main cathedral, housing some of the world’s most expensive works; also among the places to be seen panoramically in our city tour are San Martin Bridge, Damasquinos (Damascene work), workshops and shops where gold handicrafts are made. At the end of the Toledo Tour, during the free time to be offered in Madrid city center for only Toledo Tour guests, guests who wish may join the extra Madrid Masterpieces and Outlet Tour (85 Euro). In this tour, 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 make in Madrid, where sculptures, monuments, and natural beauty blend 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 places to be seen panoramically. After the Madrid Masterpieces Tour, we carry out our outlet center visit, which is the second part of our tour. After the free time we will offer for enjoyable and affordable shopping at the outlet center, which hosts stylishly designed stores of many famous brands, cafes and restaurants, and personal activity areas, we complete our tour and return to Madrid city center, offering free time until the transfer time to the hotel stated by our guide. During this free time, in the evening, guests who wish may join our extra Madrid Evenings Tour (35 Euro – with dinner 55 Euro). On this tour, we will see Madrid’s always vibrant and dazzling squares with evening lights and take a walking tour along its famous streets with restaurants and cafes. At the end of the tour, transfer to our hotel and free time to rest
MADRID – ISTANBUL
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we head to Madrid Barajas Airport for our return flight to Istanbul. After arrival at the airport and completing baggage drop-off, check-in, and passport control procedures, we fly to Istanbul at 12:45 on Pegasus Airlines scheduled flight PC1100. Arrival at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport at 18:55 local time and end of our tour.