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YEARS 11 HISPANIA TOURS WWW.HISPANIA-TOURS.COM CATALOGUE 2014 GUIDED MOTORCYCLE TOURS Official Partner of BMW Motorrad TESTCENTER SPAIN YOUR BMW Motorrad ON TOUR WELCOME BMW R 1200 GS 2013 BMW R 1200 RT BMW R 1200 R TO THE WORLD OF HISPANIA TOURS BMW R 1200 GS BMW F 800 GS BMW F 700 GS Welcome the world of motorcycle adventure of GUIDED TOURS BY HISPANIA TOURS Official Partner of BMW Motorrad Hispania Tours, Spains officialBMW Motorrad Partner and your motorcycle touring specialists. SPAIN Since 2003 we offer excluisve guided tours, self- guided tours and motorcycle rental from Malaga and Andalusia Classic - Highlights of Southern Spain 6 Barcelona with top hotels, superb routes and first class Via de la Plata - The Silver Route 8 service. Pyrenees, Culture and Curves 10 Our motorcycles are less than 2 years old, perfectly New Years Tour - Waltzing the Curves 12 mantained and come fully equipped. As TOURATECH TESTCENTER SPAIN Testcenter most of our motorcycles provide Touratech Andalusia Especial, Mountains and Nature Parks 14 luggage systems and comfort seats. On tour you will be riding in small groups of maximum 8 motorcycles and discover the tracks with our PORTUGAL BMW Motorrad certified tourguides. Our tourbus Portugal - Castles and History 18 will give you support on the road and transport your luggage. If needed, we can supply you with first class rental MOROCCO gear by german quality brand Stadler and helmets from Morocco - The Imperial Cities 22 Shoei. We are committed to ensure your motorcycling Morocco - Mountains, Deserts and Oases 24 vacation of a lifetime! Moorish Pearls Tour 26 CONTACT ADDRESS Hispania Motorcycletours S.L. THE ALPS Carril de Guetara 22-2, 29004 Málaga, Spain Tel. +34 952 172 172, Fax: +34 952 067 827 Alpine Roads At Their Best 30 Email: [email protected] BMW Days Garmisch 32 www.hispania-tours.com SPAIN ANDALUSIA CLASSIC HIGLIGHTS OF SOUTHERN SPAIN VIA DE LA PLATA - THE SILVER ROUTE PYRENEES - CULTURE AND CURVES NEW YEARS TOUR - WALTZING THE CURVES ANDALUSIA ESPECIAL MOUNTAINS AND NATURE PARKS For booking please call +34 952.172.172 or visit www.hispania-tours.com for further information. ANDALUSIA Official Partner of BMW Motorrad CLASSIC TOUR TESTCENTER SPAIN CORDOBA 8 DAYS The Tour HIGHLIGHTS TOUR HIGHLIGHTS - ANDALUSIA CLASSIC SEVILLA SEVILLE ANDALUSIA Seville, everything that’s quintessentially THE BIKER PARADISE ANDALUSIEN Andalucian! Here in the region’s capital, the AMAZING VIEWS TOWARDS Sierra Nevada Andalucian way of life is felt with its purest SIERRA NEVADA GRANADA and most intense form. With its Semana Santa (Holy Week), the romantic annual feria (fair), the Sierra Grazalema best tapas bars and nightlife, Seville has nearlly TOURRATES 2014 everything. The huge Cathedral with the famous Giralda is an absolute must for every visitor. In the Price per rider 1980 € RONDA South of the Cathedral rises the Alcázar (Moorish ARCOS palace), a magnificent building, which is closely Pillion 1880 € MALAGA linked with the lives of several famous rulers. The Single room surcharge 300 € Barrio Santa Cruz, the former Jewish quarter of the city, offers delightful places that are lushly planted Your own motorcycle 0 € MARBELLA with flowers and orange trees. CORDOBA BMW F 700 GS 570 € Cordoba is a city for strolling. It is a pleasure to BMW F 800 GS 630 € walk through the maze of the old town, where Andalusia Classic - The Highlights of Southern Spain. the Mezquita is located in its center. With its BMW R 1200 GS 720 € The fascinating motorcycle tour to the highlights of Andalusia. You discover the most gorgeous, red-yellow arches the Mezquita is one of the most sublime Islamic monuments. Or you BMW R 1200 R 720 € beautiful towns in this region along the exciting routes through the motorcycle paradise stroll through the narrow streets of the Judería of Southern Spain. When the Moors left back to Africa, they had build splendid palaces, (the former Jewish quarter) with its little squares BMW R 1200 RT 870 € gardens and mosques, founded universities and established important markets. All to be and flower-filled patios. The Medina Azahara explored on bike during this motorcycle tour in Andalusia. is also worth visiting, it is the most impressive Tourdates 2014: 12 Apr - 19 Apr 2014 archaeological site of Andalusia approximately 8 17 May - 24 May 2014 This tour leads you initially from take your breath away, before you reservoirs of the Guadalquivier km west of Córdoba. It was built between 936 and 04 Oct - 11 Oct 2014 Malaga along the coast to the reach the elegant and welcoming river towards the next Moorish 945 by Abd ar-Raman III. The excavations have so fashionable village of Marbella capital of Seville. Here you rest Pearl of this tour in Córdoba, that far opened only 1/10 of the site. from where you climb the moun- for one day and stroll through awaits us with its unique atmos- GRANADA INCLUDED SERVICES tain roads of the Sierra de Ronda. narrow streets, small squares for phere. You visit Granada and its Granada is famous for the amount of historic Soon you may find out, that the a breather in the bars of the old Alhambra and enjoy sheer riding Transfer, Ferries and Tolls streets of Andalusia are among town, to enjoy delicious tapas or pleasure in the mountain roads buildings from Moorish, Gothic and Renaissance periods. The city is world renowned for its nume- Rental bike incl. comprehensive the most spectacular and impres- a glass of wine to drink. of the Sierra Nevada, before you insurance sive you have known. The beauty return along the Mediterranean rous guitar makers. The most remarkable buildings You continue on the roads of the Accommodation in first class 4* and 5* of the white villages of Andalusia back to Malaga. of Granada from the Moorish period belong to the fortress of Alhambra (from Al-hamra-u: „The red Hotels, Riads one“). It is a set of palaces, the largest secular Breakfast and Dinner facility of its kind in Spain, that were used as English/Spanish speaking tour guide the residence of the Moorish Kings in the 13th Chase vehicle and 14th century. The Alhambra is famous for its Information package / Maps stucco ceiling and the lion fountain. Alhambra and Souvenir Albaicín, the former Moorish residential area, are world cultural heritage of UNESCO. BULLFIGHTS AND TRADITION IN RONDA THE MEZQUITA THE WHITE VILLAGES IN CORDOBA 6 OF SOUTHERN SPAIN For booking please call +34 952.172.172 or visit www.hispania-tours.com for further information. SPAIN TOUR Official Partner of BMW Motorrad TESTCENTER SPAIN Sierra de Gredos PLASENCIA 8 DAYS Yuste VIA DE LA PLATA TOUR HIGHLIGHTS - THE SILVER TRAIL The Tour Monfragüe SILVER ROUTE CACERES YUSTE MONASTERY GUADALUPE Yuste Monastery is hidden by the southern flank of the Sierra de Gredos. Yuste Monastery, founded Merida Alcocer by Iberian Hieronymites, was the last refuge of the Emperor Charles V, who was at the time the most Alcantara powerful man in the world, Holy Roman Emperor ENJOY YOUR PERFECT ROADS of German nations and King of the Spanish world RIDE IN THE NATURE ON TOUR SPAIN empire in which the sun never set. He spent the ZAFRA Sierra Morena last years of life here from his arrival in November 1556 to his death in September 1558. TOURRATES 2014 CORDOBA ZAFRA Montemolín Like many other villages in Extremadura, Zafra Price per rider 1650 € also contributed its share to the „conquest“ of the Pillion 1550 € Via De La Plata - The Silver Route . Via American continent. We know the names of 221 people that were involved with Lope de Aguirre in Single room surcharge 250 € SEVILLE his Amazon campaign, that can trace their roots , PORTUGAL via Zafra, to their Roman origins. Granada Your own motorcycle 0 € CACERES The Ibero-Celtic settlement was founded in about BMW F 700 GS 570 € Sierra Nevada 54 BC by the Romans under the name of Norba BMW F 800 GS 630 € Caesarina. In 1165 the city was made an inde- Ronda pendent principality by Geraldo the Fearless, a BMW R 1200 GS 720 € MALAGA Portuguese adventurer.. Alfonso IX. finally pre- vailed in 1229, and took the city for the Kingdom BMW R 1200 R 720 € of León. Besides Istanbul, the Aljibe in Caceres On this tour you ride along an old trade route that dates back to the times of ancient is the largest rock-carved cistern in the world. In BMW R 1200 RT 870 € 1986 Caceres received the status of a UNESCO roman emperors. Today it makes up an important trail of great cultural heritage known World Heritage site. Tourdates 2014: 07 Jun - 14 Jun 2014 as la Ruta de la Plata, the Silver Route. Discover the roads into the heart of Spain, full of ALCOCER (EL CID) 18 Oct - 25 Oct 2014 historic cities, hospitable people and delicious cuisine. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid, was a Castilian Once a link between the Atlantic coast and the Riding through this magnificent scenery, our route knight from the time of the Reconquista and a lands of southern Spain, for many centuries The takes us via Ronda to Seville, the capital city of Spanish national hero. Just as the fabled Atlantis INCLUDED SERVICES Silver Route was a main communications route Andalusia. From here we explore the Extremadura was never found, this place was discovered in the from North to South. Originally it served the spread region, one of the last miracles of nature in 80‘s to be was one of the sites of the „Cidliedes“ - Transfer in Andalusia of Roman culture, later, during the Middle Ages, it Europe.