Spain and Andalusia Icons Tour with Pegasus Airlines, 7 nights, Barcelona outbound – Madrid return || 16193

İSTANBUL – BARCELONA
We arrive at Sabiha Gökçen Airport Domestic Terminal 3 hours before our flight, and after completing baggage drop-off, ticket, and passport control, we fly to Barcelona on Pegasus Airlines scheduled flight PC1091 at 10:05. Upon arrival in Barcelona at 11:45 local time, we meet our private bus waiting for us at the airport and set off on our panoramic Barcelona city tour. On our tour, we first go up to Montjuic Hill, from where we can enjoy a panoramic view of the entire city. After a photo break to admire the city’s unique and breathtaking view, Christopher Columbus Monument, Plaza de Espana, and Port Olimpic (marina) are among the sights to be seen panoramically. After free time in the city center, transfer to our hotel. Room check-in and free time to rest.
BARCELONA – (Barcelona Icons Tour) – (Barcelona Local Neighborhoods Tour) – (Fiesta Barcelona Tour)
After breakfast, we offer a full day at leisure. Guests who wish may join our extra Barcelona Icons Tour program (65 Euro). In this tour, we first 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 in the extra tour price). In Guell Park, which was inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1984 and takes visitors into a fairy-tale 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 Gaudi’s most important works that contributed to the city’s architecture (Gaudi’s House), and complete our tour with a walk around La Sagrada Familia. During the free time we will have in the city center, guests who wish may join the extra Barcelona Local Neighborhoods Tour (45 Euro). In this tour, where we will see Barcelona Cathedral, Paral-Lel and Gothic neighborhoods, El Born, City Hall, Plaza Real, and the market-La Boqueria, guests who wish may then join our extra Fiesta Barcelona Tour program (55 Euro) during the free time provided after the tour. On our tour, we visit Poble Espanyol, an open-air museum and festival village concept created for the 1929 World Fair, where typical architectural examples, craft workshops, works of art, and traditional cultural elements from different regions of Spain are brought together. Open throughout the year and lively at all hours of the day, Poble Espanyol hosts various music, dance, street performances, and cultural activities, and offers visitors a unique experience where they can see characteristic elements from all over Spain. After our visit to Poble Espanyol 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, the whole day is free. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Girona & Figueres & Dali Museum Tour program (90 Euro). Our first stop on the tour will be Girona, the largest city in Northern Catalonia, which enchants visitors with its museums, galleries, Gothic-style architectural works, and walls rising around its narrow cobblestone labyrinth-like streets. On our visit in Girona, we will see and photograph the colorful houses lined along the Onyar River, which divides the city into two, and walk along Libertat Street, a pedestrian street in the old town surrounded by walls, with exits leading into narrow labyrinth-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 house his works while he was still alive, we will visit the Dali Museum (entrance fee included in the extra tour price) and, accompanied by our guide, enjoy an art tour in the museum housing 4,000 of Dali’s works. At the end of the tour, we return to our hotel and offer free time.
BARCELONA – VALENCIA – (Valencia Masterpieces and Paella Lunch Tour) – ALICANTE
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we depart for Valencia. Valencia, the 3rd largest city in Spain by population and home to the country’s largest port, combines historic buildings and modern architectural works in great harmony. At the same time, Valencia hosts Las Fallas, which heralds spring, and the Tomato Festival known as La Tomatina, which has continued for 70 years. Upon our arrival in Valencia, after our panoramic city tour, we offer free time in the new city center. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Valencia Masterpieces and Paella Lunch Tour program (65 Euro – 1 drink included). On our tour, the sights to be seen include Gothic Cathedral, Valencia Cathedral, the medieval city walls Torres de Serranos surrounding the old town, Reina Square, Mauques de dos Aguas Palace, and Town Hall Square. In Valencia, the birthplace of Spain’s world-famous Paella, we will offer free time in the port area and on 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 to rest.
ALICANTE – GRANADA – (Al Hambra Palace Tour) – SEVILLA – (Flamenco Show)
After breakfast, we complete our hotel check-out procedures and depart for Granada. Granada, established 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 is home to the Al Hambra Palace, among the sights to be seen on the historic Andalusian/Granada streets are the Christopher Columbus Monument, Grand Via, La Rambla, and City Square, among artifacts from the Umayyad and Abbasid periods. Free time after the city tour. Guests who wish may join our extra Al Hambra Palace Tour program (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 on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. (Conducted subject to palace availability. Entrance fee is included in the extra tour price and excludes harem entry). After our visit to Al Hambra, we depart for Sevilla. Upon our arrival in Sevilla, the largest city in Andalusia and the center of Flamenco, guests who wish may join an extra Flamenco Show (60 Euro) during the free time we will provide 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.
SEVILLA – (Sevilla Masterpieces and Walking Tour) – CORDOBA – (Mosque and Cathedral of Cordoba Tour) – MADRID
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we offer free time. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Sevilla Masterpieces and Walking Tour program (65 Euro). Sevilla, the most crowded and most developed city in Andalusia, owes its exotic and rich cultural history to the period in its history when it was under the rule of the Moors, North African Muslims. We explore Sevilla accompanied by beautiful and magnificent cathedrals, squares, palaces, museums, towers, and churches. During our tour, among the panoramic sights are Plaza de Espana, where some scenes of Star Wars 2 were filmed, Torro del Oro (Golden Tower), a dodecagonal tower originally built for defense but later also used as a prison, Sevilla Cathedral and Giralda Bell Tower, which is the 3rd largest Gothic cathedral in the world 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 Islamic rule. 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, panoramically, the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, with its 1,000-year history, the Roman Bridge, St. Nicola Church, and the Jewish Quarter. During the free time provided at the end of the tour, guests who wish may join our extra Mosque and Cathedral of Cordoba Tour program (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 to rest.
MADRİD – (Toledo Tour) – (Madrid Masterpieces and Outlet Tour)
After breakfast, we offer free time. Guests who wish may join our extra Toledo Tour program (65 Euro). Founded by 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 was 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, whose construction took about 270 years, once a mosque and today the world’s 3rd most important and Spain’s primate cathedral, containing the world’s most expensive works of art, San Martin Bridge, Damasquinos (Damascene work), and workshops and shops where gold handcrafting is made are among the places to be seen panoramically on our city tour. At the end of the Toledo Tour, during the free time that will be offered in Madrid city center only for Toledo Tour guests, guests who wish may join our extra Madrid Masterpieces and Outlet Tour program (85 Euro). In this tour, which we will explore on foot, Madrid, the capital of the Kingdom of Spain and also the third largest city in the European Union, is considered the political, economic, and cultural center of the country. During our city tour 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 to be seen. After the Madrid Masterpieces Tour, we visit the outlet center, which forms the second part of our tour. We complete our tour after the free time we will provide for enjoyable and affordable shopping in the outlet center, which hosts stylishly designed stores of many famous brands, cafes and restaurants, and personal activity areas, and we return to Madrid city center and offer free time until the transfer time to the hotel to be announced by our guide. During this free time, in the evening, guests who wish may join our extra Madrid Evenings Tour program (35 Euro – 55 Euro with dinner). On this tour, we will see Madrid’s ever-lively and sparkling squares in the evening lights and take a walking tour along its famous streets, where restaurants and cafes are located. At the end of the tour, transfer to our hotel and free time to rest
MADRİD – İSTANBUL
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we depart for Madrid Barajas Airport for our return flight to Istanbul. After arrival at the airport, following baggage drop-off, check-in, and passport control, we fly to Istanbul on Pegasus Airlines scheduled flight PC1102 at 15:05. Arrival at Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen Airport at 21:15 local time and end of our tour.