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Spain & Portugal CityBreaks Combined Train Tours SPAIN & Themed Tours PORTUGAL Fly & Drive www.premiumincoming.com Cibeles Palace and City Hall (Madrid) CityBreaks Spain & Portugal Madrid, the Royal Capital CityBreak & Day Trips 4 days / 3 nights The tour includes 4 Private transfers, Madrid Airport - hotel - Madrid Airport. 4 Overnight Accommodation including Buffet Breakfast, 3 nights in Madrid in the chosen hotel or similiar. SPAIN 4 Sightseeing Hop on-Hop Off tour (24 hours) in Madrid. 3 Introducing Madrid Madrid Madrid is a fantastic, cosmopolitan city and one of the greatest cultural hubs in the world. Discover the myriad of cultural cen- tres including world clase museums, art galleries, auditoriums, theatres and foundations open to the public. Also Madrid has an exceptional live music scene with fiestas and events all your around. Fine restaurants and tapas bars are plentiful around the city to give you a real taste of Spain including hundred-year-old establishments and Michelin-star restaurants for a real romantic dinner. Day 1 | Origin - Madrid and business, and the “Paseo del Arte” jewel in the crown is the Royal Palace, Day 3 | Madrid (Option: Day trips to Upon arrival to Madrid Airport you will art route - whose name derives from an imposing building dating from the the Surroundings) be welcomed by our driver and then the world class museums, palaces and 17th century featuring a mixture of Buffet Breakfast Day at leisure to transfer to hotel. Check-in and rest of gardens located in the area. If anything Baroque and classicist styles. Besides continue discovering Madrid. Option: the day free to explore the capital of characterizes Madrid is a deep, conta- it, is the Plaza de Oriente square, the Also you can enjoy one of the day trips Spain, a cosmopolitan city that com- gious passion for life that is reflected in Teatro Real Opera house, and the ca- to visit: Toledo, known as the “City of the bines modern infrastructure with its the friendliness of its people. Find con- thedral of Almudena. There is also a three cultures”; Avila, whose historic cen- status as an economic, financial and certs, exhibitions, ballets, as well as, a tempting array of shops and busines- tre and churches outside the city walls administrative with immense cultural select theatrical offering, the latest film ses featuring both traditional establi- have been awarded the World Heritage and artistic heritage. The city has more releases and the opportunity to savour shments and leading stores offering designation by the UNESCO; Aranjuez, a than 60 museums covering all human the charms of bars and taverns where top brands and international labels. Historic-Artistic Site, with its royal palaces, knowledge. Madrid has many artis- you can enjoy a wide range of the best Madrid’s lively nightlife is another key and gardens on the banks of the Tagus tic attractions, thanks to the different Spanish and international gastronomy. attraction of Spain’s capital, due to its which was declared a World Heritage Site styles that have left their imprint in Overnight in Madrid. variety and the exciting atmosphere to by UNESCO; or El Escorial, where you will the city over the centuries. The histo- be found in its bars, pubs, clubs and find a UNESCO World Heritage designa- ric centre, also known as the “Madrid Day 2 | Madrid flamenco halls. Thanks to the exce- ted monastery, home to the secrets of de los Austrias” and the spectacular Buffet Breakfast Today you will have llent seafood, Iberian ham and cold Spanish history, as well as a charming Plaza Mayor square - inaugurated in the opportunity to experience the meat, a variety of pickled vegetables, town in beautiful natural surroundings. 1620 being one of the most popular city on your own with the sightseeing typical dishes such as prawns in bat- Overnight in Madrid. sites in Spain - are a living example of Hop on-Hop off tour, where you will ter, tripe or snails, excellent cheese, the splendour of the city in the 16th be able to get on and off the bus at “pinchos” and casseroles, and all types Day 4 | Madrid - Origin and 17th centuries. The Puerta del Sol different stops as you desire. Near of wine from all over the country, Ma- Buffet Breakfast Check out at the hotel. square, the very center of the city, is su- the plaza Mayor is the area known as drid is the capital of tapas. Overnight Private transfer to Madrid airport for your rrounded by an extensive area of shops the “old aristocratic center” where the in Madrid. return flight and end of our services. Madrid de los Austrias District The Madrid of the Austrians or the Habsburgs, is a name used for the old centre of Madrid, built during the reign of the Habs- burg Dynasty, known in Spain as “Casa de Austria”. The area is located south of the Calle Mayor, in between the Metro stations of Sol and Opera. Madrid first became the capital in the 16th century, a period in which Spain experienced its Golden Age. The Habsburgs commissioned a variety of buildings and infrastructure projects, in order to represent their power and wealth through their shaping of public space. El Madrid de los Austrias subsequently took the name of its builders, the Spanish Habs- burgs or “the Austrians”. Its typical architectural style ranges from the late Renaissance through the early Baroque. The most notable Habsburg construction and the essential part of the “Madrid de los Austrias” is the Plaza Mayor, in the middle of which stands a statue of its builder, King Philip III. Laid out in 1619, the Plaza Mayor is a large, rectangular plaza with arcades and nine entrances. This magnificent square was the scene of bullfights, executions, and coronations. Several important buildings are also located in the Plaza de la Villa, one of the oldest squares in Madrid where the oldest building is the Torre de los Luja- nes (15th century). Another important building, is Casa de Cisneros (1537), alongside to the Ayuntamiento, the old town hall. 2 Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) CityBreaks Spain & Portugal Barcelona, Modernism & Culture CityBreak & Day Trips 4 days / 3 nights The tour includes 4 Private transfers, Barcelona Airport - hotel - Barcelona Airport. 4 Overnight Accommodation including Buffet Breakfast, 3 nights in Barcelona in the selected hotel or similar. 4 Sightseeing Hop on-Hop Off tour (24 hours) in Barcelona. 3 Barcelona Introducing Barcelona SPAIN Catalonia - and Barcelona - has become one of the first tourist destination of Spain. It knows how to please the visitor with its old history being a capital city which never sleeps and an inland full of charm with beautiful beaches, artistic treasures, Romanesque churches and great names in modern art and architecture, like Dalí, Gaudí, Miró and Picasso. Sited between the sea and the mountains, Barcelona has found a formidable balance: a foot in tradition and the other in the modernity. Day 1 | Origin - Barcelona nal handmade cakes and pastries and thedral. The Plaça del Rei is a beautiful Day 3 | Barcelona (Option: Day trips Upon arrival to Barcelona Airport you sparkling wines (Cava) are some of the square and in the Plaça de Sant Jaume to the Surroundings) will be welcomed by our driver and other highlights of the city’s gastrono- you can find the City Hall. One of the Buffet Breakfast Day at leisure. Option: then transfer to the hotel. Check-in and mic culture. Strolling around the streets best places to catch the rhythm of the You can visit: Artistic Barcelona: Gaudí, rest of the day free to explore this cos- of the city will bring surprises at every city is La Rambla, one of the main arte- Modernism & Gothic: discovering Gaudi’s mopolitan and Mediterranean city with turn. Pedestrian streets in the old quar- ries of the historic quarter, which leads famous buildings such as Casa Batlló & La Roman remains, medieval quarters and ter, green spaces, and a splendid sea- to the Mediterranean Sea. On the way, Pedrera, the Gaudi’s Park Güell and the the most beautiful examples of 20th front are a reflection of its multi-faceted you can see the bird and flower stalls, Sagrada Familia (Holy Family), Gaudi’s century Modernism and avant-garde. character. Overnight in Barcelona. nice examples of Baroque and Renais- Cathedral; Montserrat: You will be able The constructions by the Catalan archi- sance architecture, the Boquería Market to visit the incomparable setting of the tects Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Doménech Day 2 | Barcelona and the Liceu Opera House. Barcelona mountain of Montserrat. Also you can visit i Montaner have been declared World Buffet Breakfast Today you will have is like a large shop whose main axis of the Royal Basilica of Montserrat, which Heritage Sites by the UNESCO. The city the opportunity to experience the city shops, known as the Shopping Line, con- holds the famous 12th century Romanes- offers visitors museums, exhibitions, on your own pace with the sightseeing sists of five-kilometre pedestrian area que carving of the Black Virgin; Girona, open-air sculptures… and many con- Hop on-Hop off tour, where you will with wide pavements which can satisfy Figueres & Dali Museum: Visiting Figueres, certs, plays and dances. This beautiful be able to get on and off the bus at di- the most demanding visitors. Municipal with its landmark Teatre-Museu of Dalí, city is full of what European cities are fferent stops as you desire. The city’s markets, art galleries and antique shops and Girona, a monumental city, which is known for (outdoor markets, restau- original site, which was surrounded by can be found in Barcelona alongside home to one of Europe’s best-preserved rants, shops, museums and churches) walls in the Roman period, is today the crafts shops, fashion shops and open- Jewish quarters.
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