MADRID, LA RIOJA & SAN SEBASTIAN - Culinary and Wine Experience
NOTE: Minimum 4 participants required.
DAY 1, MADRID
Arrival to Madrid airport or rail station and transfer to your superior category, centrally located boutique hotel. Balance of the day is at your leisure to get acquainted with Spain’s capital city. This evening enjoy a walking tapas tour of Madrid. Meet your private guide in your hotel in the early evening. (Taxi, if necessary, from your hotel to the tour starting point is not included). Madrid is a delightful place to set out on a tapas tour. This tour aims at understanding and enjoying the informal yet sofisticated way in which Spaniards approach a tapas counter to order their drink and food. You will be in the company of an expert local guide who will help you navigate through the maze of bars and taverns to choose just the right spot for a tempranillo red and some acorn-fed Iberian ham or those incredible garlic shrimps paired with a local wines and beer. And that's s one of the advantages of having a guide with you, let them know about your preferences and they will do the hard work of choosing and picking! Duration: 3 hours. Includes: Private guide, Tapas and Drinks
DAY 2, MADRID: PRIVATE WALKING TOUR OF MADRID WITH PRADO MUSEUM
Breakfast at your hotel. Meet your guide at the designated meeting point for today’s walking tour. Bring your most comfortable walking shoes as the most authentic Madrid deserves to be visited on foot. Meet your local guide at the designated time and meeting place to begin this walking tour. You’ll see the Puerta del Sol in Old Madrid, the Gran Via, Cibeles Fountain, Palace of Comunicaciones, the Plaza de Neptuno, the Spanish Congress building and finally a visit to the world famous Prado Museum with its superb collection of Wester Art including the works of Spanish masters such as Goya and Velazquez, including entrance fees. After the tour, return to your hotel on your own. Afternoon is at leisure.
DAY 3, MADRID – BURGOS – LA RIOJA - LAGUARDIA
Breakfast. Early this morning meet your English speaking driver for departure to historical Burgos, birthplace of Spanish folk hero “El Cid”, perhaps this beautiful city’s most famous citizens along with his wife Doña Ximena, and the magnificent Gothic cathedral where they are entombed. Free time to stroll through Burgos and perhaps to try some local tapas before continuing to La Rioja wine region (we try the famous “morcilla” (blood sausages). We arrive in La Rioja in the early afternoon and check-in to our hotel for the night. In the afternoon visit Laguardia, he most important town in La Rioja of Alava, and one of the most beautiful. The region is famous all around the world because of its wines, and because it was the birthplace of fabulist Samaniego. Included is a guided regular tour of a traditional wine cellar with tasting.
DAY 4, LA RIOJA – WINE tastings – SAN SEBASTIAN
Breakfast. Meet your driver for departure this morning to San Sebastian. On the way, we’ll stop at two local wineries in the town of Elciego or surroundings and the city of Haro for accompanied regular tour including wine tastings. Free time will be included in Haro for lunch at a local restaurant recommended by your escort (lunch is a-la-carte and not included). After lunch we depart north to the Basque Country and the province of Guipuzcoa and its picturesque capital, the resort city of San Sebastian. Check-in and accommodations at your hotel. Afternoon free in San Sebastian so you can experience the local "Pintxos" (what they call Tapas in this region) on your own in the city's Old Town.
DAY 5, SAN SEBASTIAN
Breakfast at your hotel. This morning meet your English speaking local guide at your hotel for today’s half day walking guided tour around San Sebastian to see the most iconic places in the city. This tour also includes a panoramic view from the top of Igeldo Mountain, which you access on cable car (tickets to access to the Igeldo Mountain on cable car included). Duration: 4 hours. Afternoon free in San Sebastian, to explore this amazing city on your own.
DAY 6, SAN SEBASTIAN
Breakfast at your hotel. Meet your driver in the hotel lobby, at the designated time, for your private transfer to San Sebastian airport. End of services.
In the event that 4 minimum passengers aren’t reached, Petrabax will provide an option to purchase the tour with an additional supplement based on the actual number of travelers if under 4 passengers.
MADRID
The capital of Spain is made up of people from all over Spain and open to new social trends. The Madrid of the Austrias, the Bourbons, the romantic, the popular, the sophisticated and the modern are some of the faces that the city will show us during our visit. Characterized by its lively nightlife, Madrid is not lacking in distractions after a day of walks and discoveries. This city has a lot to offer and not only for its important art galleries like the Prado Museum or the Reina Sofía but also for its churches, convents, alleys, squares, gardens, and skyscrapers. A wide range in which to choose what we like most. Madrid enjoys around 2,800 hours of light a year and an average temperature of 17 degrees Celsius.
Burgos
Burgos, a city in Castilla-Leon situated in the Pilgrim's Road to Santiago de Compostela, still preserves important vestiges of its medieval splendor. The city, which was the capital of the unified kingdom of Castilla-Leon for five centuries, boasts a
LA RIOJA
A small municipality of Los Molinos is located in La Rioja Province, Northwest area of Argentina. The town with the population close to 12,000 people is located in highlands near the first high chains of the Appalachian mountains. The town is a typical local settlement with the lifestyle heavily related on agriculture and farming
SAN SEBASTIAN
What is not to love about this majestic city on the Cantabrian Sea? San Sebastián, or Donostia as it is called in Basque, has a circular bay with pristine white sand beaches that have long attracted wealthy beach-goers in search of sun and sophistication. This is what made the city famous during the Belle Époque era and it is also where Queen Maria Cristina established her royal summerhouse. The evidence of San Sebastián’s glamorous past can still be seen throughout the city. La Concha, the most beautiful urban beach in Europe, is adorned by luxurious beachside mansions as well as the famous spa called La Perla (The Pearl). Its boardwalk is lined by an ornate white railing that has become a symbol of the city. There are, however, two other beaches in the city both of which are less posh and more relaxed: Ondarreta and Zurriola. Zurriola is also popular with surfers. In more recent years, San Sebastián has gained significant press for its cuisine. The city alone has 15 Michelin stars spread across 7 restaurants and famously boasts more stars per capita than anywhere else in the world other than Tokyo. Restaurants Mugaritz and Arzak have been ranked numbers 6 and 17 in the world (2015 World’s 50 Best Restaurants). It is in many ways like a mini Paris, except in Basque style. San Sebastián is also famous for its pintxos. And the best place to go to try some of them is the Parte Vieja (Old Part). This charming old city center is famous for having the highest concentration of bars in the world. This is where the pintxo is king and the food is taken very seriously. Despite its relative small size (186,000 inhabitants), international events are also held here. The most famous of these is the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Hotel or Similiar
HOTELS SUPERIOR
Hotel De Londres y De Inglaterra, San Sebastian
Hotel Mayorazgo, Madrid
Hotel Viura, La Rioja
- Accommodation with buffet breakfast daily: 2 nights in Madrid, 1 night in La Rioja and 2 nights in San Sebastian
- Arrival transfer from Madrid Airport to Hotel in Madrid
- Private guided tapas tour in Madrid (Max. 3h)
- Private guided walking tour in Madrid (Max. 4h)
- Prado Museum entrance tickets
- Day 3: Private vehicle with driver for full day for transfer Madrid - Burgos - Rioja
- Private guided walking tour of Burgos (Max. 4h)
- Burgos Cathedral entrance tickets
- Regular guided tour to a winery in the Laguardia area with wine tasting
- Day 4: Private vehicle with driver for full day transfer Rioja - San Sebastian
- Regular guided tour to Marqués de Riscal with wine tasting
- Regular guided tour to a traditional winery in Haro with wine tasting
- Private guided walking tour in San Sebastian (Max. 4h)
- Round trip tickets to Monte Igeldo tram
- Private departure transfer from Hotel in San Sebastian to San Sebastian Airport
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