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T Select AATORURISM & HERITAGE cultural tourism “Culture is dialogue, the exchange of ideas and experiences, apreciation for other values and traditions, which is exhausting and dying in isolation ” AART SELECT www.aartselect.com World conference about cultural politics, mexico D.F 1982 Cover Photo: Detail of casement. Ancient aljama almohad mosque door, actually Puerta del Perdon (Forgiveness Door) Seville Cathedral. Photography: Alameda de Hércules (Seville) Stefania Scamardi Dear Travelers In collaboration with El legado andalusí Andalusian Public Foundation, we have the pleasure of presenting our catalogue: AL ANDALUS SELECT. Through a selection of itineraries, we have wanted to guide you on the pursuit of an attractive touristic and cultural Andalusian experience. Our desire is to share the beauty of an exclusive heritage, testimony of a common historic period, to allow you to get to know and live our present and, in some way, contribute in respecting diversity and an enrichening gathering. A journey through heritage capitals considered symbolic references of cultural values and territories that have been adapted to a contemporaneity without forgetting the memory of a shared history. A select an exclusive programme, with a personalised service to cater your requirements and show the ability of reception and excellent services ANDALUSIA has to offer. In Colaboration: TEXTURES in ART OMAYYAN CORDOBA – ALMOHADE SEVILLE – NASRID GRANADA We will engage in an itinerary through the three biggest al–Andalus capitals and we will offer a vision through history, Arts and Science DAY 4/ Seville After breakfast, we will keep getting to know our vast tangible and intangible heritage which enhances this magical city. Majestic palaces, unique boroughs, traditions… TEXTURES This last night, we will share a very special evening, with a farewell panoramic visit and afterwards an evening meal and flamenco show as ¨grand finale in ART ‘to our visit. DAY 5 / Seville - Granada Breakfast and we will travel on towards an ancient DAY 1/ Cordoba DAY 3 / Cordoba - Seville Nasrid capital: Granada. A city which awaits us to show us the present day of what was the epilogue of Our itinerary will start in Cordoba, a city which Breakfast and we will resume our trip. We have the history of Islam in the Peninsula Iberica, which lives its present day without forgetting the memory visited one of the three greatest andalusi capitals, it keeps with pride, the memory of the splendor of of its glorious andalusi past. We will welcome Omayyad Cordoba, our itinerary will continue on to such great reign of al-Andalus. Evening meal and and accompany you to your chosen hotel and we an intermediate historic period, with the city which night visit. will begin our cultural touristic experience with was an Almohade capital of al-Andalus: a lovely visit to the historical area of this ancient caliphal city, led by a local expert guide who will On this day, led by a local tour guide, we will get to set us up for this first part of the journey. Evening know one of Spain´s most important historic city DAY 6 / Granada meal in restaurant. centers ; we will visit its impressive Gothic cathedral Breakfast and we start our day with a visit to the and Real Alcazar, two important monuments that incredible Alhambra, led by an Islamic art and will allow us to visualize its historic becoming and culture guide. After lunch we will enjoy a walk DAY 2/ Cordoba the styles development and transformations, great through the city, visiting part of its rich historic memories of a shared past. Evening meal in hotel. Breakfast and visit to Mezquita -Cathedral, one of and artistic heritage that leads us into the present. the most important artworks of all time, an example Evening meal at hotel and lodging. of the splendor of the Omayyad architecture. After an interesting visit we will have free time to walk around till lunch. In the afternoon we will visit the caliphal city of Medina azahara and we will return DAY 7/ Granada to our hotel where evening meal will be offered. Breakfast and transfer to railway station or airport. Here our services end. Granada AL-ANDALUS Universe Alhendin The Routes of El legado andalusí Cultural Route of the Council of Europe Padul Nigüelas Mendújar From Granada, we suggest you continue your route Lecrín and carry out one of the stages of The Route of al-Idrisi, through a unique experience which will take you to the Al-Andalus universe. Vélez de Benaudalla It involves an exclusive route designed in Málaga Frijiliana collaboration with Azimnth company specialized Torrox Salobreña in education and astroturism activities in which Art, Science, Nature and history come together to Nerja Motril Almuñécar offer unforgettable memories Mapping of the Route of al-Idrisi El legado andalusí Andalusian Public Foundation AL-ANDALUS UNIVERSE AL-IDRISI ROUTE The Routes of El legado andalusí, Cultural Route of the Council of Europe From stars names to celestial coordinates and planetarium monuments, andalusi astronomy legacy lives on in modern science, and in the territories where the main characters inhabited. On this route we will revise said legacy and we will be amazed with the wonders in our Universe. A spectacular journey which will take us from the Nasrid Palaces of La Alhambra to the modern telescopes of Calar Alto observatory. In the cosmologic vision which radiates from the stars and their cycles you can see reflected in the building of the palace of la Alhambra… DAY 1/ Granada Breakfast and start of our day with an interesting visit to la Alhambra. Accompanied by a specialized guide in Art history and expert in Astrophysics, we will discover the relationship between our Universe and the architecture of this unique space. Lunch and we move on to get to know the relationship between the sky and the everyday world of the andalusi period through some of its most important testimonies. Evening meal and lodge. Following in the footsteps of the Arabic philosopher Ibn Tafayd and his novel “The Self-Taught Philosopher” we will remove our actual knowledge and draw a clean slate on us to get into the skin of the prehistoric settlers of the highlands. We will get near the stars from a personal perspective, nearly intimate, to return to the medieval cosmology. DAY 2/ Granada Breakfast. Today we will delight ourselves with the amazing landscapes and get to know the beautiful and historic towns of Guadix, Baza and Galera. Lunch during the route. To end the day we will offer and unforgettable interpretation of the sky at the Alicun Spa. Evening meal and return to hotel. Medieval astronomy still lives on in todays astrophysics. Astronomers from Calar Alto Observatory scrutinize the sky with huge telescopes and up-to-date scientific instruments with the same purpose; discover the secrets of the Cosmos. The future of humanity will be written in other worlds, in other suns. To reach them and prosper in them we need all our science, past, present and future. DAY 3/ Granada - Almeria - Granada After our interesting visit, we will move on to the city of Almeria. There we will have lunch; afterwards we will enjoy a walk through its historic center. Return to Granada. Our itinerary will finish in Granada, or if you wish to, we will move on towards Malaga, as “The Route of al-Idrisi. The Routes of El legado andalusí” suggests to us. Navas de Tolosa La Carolina Baños de la Encina Bailén Linares Andújar From Granada Úbeda TO JAEN Baeza Mengibar The Routes of El legado andalusí Arjona Cultural Route of the Council of Europe Porcuna Jimena Jódar Jaén Mancha Real Torredonjimeno Torredelcampo La Guardia de Jaén Cambil Martos Or we can discover one of the stages Huelma on The Route of the Nasrids, heading towards the province of Jaen to know its richness in History, Art, Nature and the Guadahortuna production of one of our most important culinary treasures: Olive oil. Piñar Iznalloz Deifontes Albolote Maracena Granada Mapping of the Route of the Nasrids. El legado andalusí Andalusian Public Foundation FROM GRANADA to JAEN THE ROUTE OF THE NASRIDS The Routes of El legado andalusí Cultural Route of the Council of Europe On this vast tour that this route offers, we have chosen the part that will take us from the province of Granada to Jaen. You can feel the dense artistic history that this tour offers, admiring the old towns that are testimonies of the past, the remnant of their andalusi past, the beauty of its renaissance splendor, its natural areas, and its crops. Jaen’s ‘land is intimately united to the presence of one the Mediterranean’s most characteristic element: the olive tree. An incredible landscape that shows the depth of the olive oil tradition in this Andalusian land. “Heading south and sailing in its sea of olive trees, Martos appears…. villa in which you can already feel the graceful bright touch and the white magical scent of Andalucia” Camilo José Cela Primer Viaje Andaluz DAY 1/ Granada - Jaen DAY 2 / Jaen - Ubeda - DAY 3 / Jaen - Martos - Breakfast and start of our trip. Before leaving the province of Granada we will visit the Monastery Baeza - Jaen Granada of La Cartuja, founded at the beginning of Breakfast and we leave to the monumental city of This landscape wouldn’t be understood without the XVI century in the old setting of what was Ubeda, affixed to a sea of olive groves opposite considering its bond with the olive world; because known as Aynadamar, we will enjoy the beautiful the solid range of mountains of Magina and of that we will stop off in Martos, were we will surroundings of the Grenadian La Vega and then Cazorla.

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