İZMİR – BARCELONA
We arrive at İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport International Terminal 3 hours before our flight to complete baggage drop-off, ticketing, and passport control procedures, then fly to Barcelona at 11:15 on Pegasus Airlines’ scheduled flight PC1527. After arriving in Barcelona at 12:40 local time, we take our private bus waiting at the airport and arrange our panoramic Barcelona city tour. On our tour, we first go up to Montjuic Hill, where we can enjoy a panoramic view of the entire city. After a photo break with the city’s unique and breathtaking view, the Statue of Christopher Columbus, Plaza de España, and Port Olímpic (marina) are among the places to be seen. Upon arrival at the hotel, check-in and free time to rest.
BARCELONA – (Barcelona Icons & Girona & Figueres - Dali Museum Tour – BARCELONA
After breakfast, free time for the whole day. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Barcelona Icons & Girona & Figueres - Dali Museum Tour (105 Euro) program. First, on our tour, we go up Carmel Hill, where we can enjoy the magnificent view of the city, and visit Park Güell, designed and built by Antoni Gaudí. “entrance fee included” In Park Güell, which was included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1984 and takes its visitors to a fairy-tale world with its vibrant colors and nature-inspired figures, we offer free time for photos and sightseeing. Then we will see Casa Milà, one of the most important works that Gaudí added to urban architecture (Gaudí’s House), and complete our tour with a walk around La Sagrada Família. After the Barcelona Icons Tour, we begin the second part of our tour, the Girona & Figueres - Dali Museum program. In our tour, we will set off towards Figueres. After a short sightseeing tour in Figueres, where Salvador Dalí was born and where the museum he designed from a theater building to house his works while still alive is located, we will visit the Dali Museum “entrance fee included” and go on an art tour in the museum, which houses Dalí’s 4,000 works, accompanied by our guide. After the tour, we depart to organize our Girona city tour. Our visit point on the tour will be Girona, the largest city in Catalonia, which enchants its visitors with its museums, galleries, and Gothic architectural works, and its walls rising around its cobblestone narrow labyrinthine streets. On our tour in Girona, we will see and photograph the colorful houses lined along the banks of the Onyar River, which divides the city into two, and walk along Libertat Street, a car-free street in the old town square surrounded by walls, with each exit leading into narrow labyrinth-like streets. In the city where Christians, Catalan Jews, and Muslims lived together throughout history, we complete our city tour by viewing Girona Cathedral panoramically. After the tour, we return to our hotel.
BARCELONA – VALENCIA – ALICANTE
After breakfast, we complete check-out and depart for Valencia. Upon arrival in Valencia, on our panoramic city tour we will see, in order, the Gothic Cathedral, Valencia Cathedral, the medieval walls surrounding the old city, Torres de Serranos, Reina Square, Marqués de Dos Aguas Palace, and Town Hall Square. After the tour, we complete our program with free time, then depart for Alicante, one of Spain’s most important tourism cities with its 12-month mild climate, famous for its beaches and promenade. After the sightseeing tour we will do upon arrival, we reach our hotel in the Alicante region. Check-in and free time to rest.
ALICANTE – GRANADA – (Al Hambra Palace Tour) – (Sacremento & Gypsy Show)
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we depart for Granada. Granada, established on fertile lands at the foot of the Sierra Nevada 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 historical Andalusian/Granada streets, among the works from the Umayyad and Abbasid periods are the Statue of Christopher Columbus, Grand Via, La Rambla, and the Town Square. Free time after the city tour. Guests who wish may join our extra Al Hambra Palace Tour (65 Euro) program. We see the Al Hambra Palace, one of the most extraordinary memories not only of Andalusia but of the entire history of Islam, famous for its Arabesque architecture, pools, and gardens, and listed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. (It is carried out subject to the palace’s availability, and advance guaranteed reservation is recommended at the time of package tour booking. Entrance fee is included in the extra tour price and excludes the harem entrance.) After our visit to Al Hambra, transfer to our hotel in the Granada region. Check-in and free time to rest. In the evening, with guests who wish, we organize the extra Sacremento & Gypsy Show (45 Euro) program. On the opposite slope of Al Hambra, in Sacramonte, one of Granada’s oldest settlements with its whitewashed houses and its labyrinth-like, winding, steep, and stair-filled streets, we watch the Gypsy Show, where we can see and photograph from afar the red walls of Al Hambra Palace through every opening. After the tour, we arrive at our hotel in the Granada region. Check-in and free time to rest.
GRANADA – MALAGA – (Ronda Tour) – SEVILLE – (Flamenco Show Tour)
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we depart for Malaga. Upon arrival in Malaga, panoramic city tour. Malaga, the 2nd most populous city in Andalusia and the 6th most populous city in all of Spain, is located on the Costa del Sol coastline. Thanks to this advantageous location, it is one of the important holiday routes of the Mediterranean. During our panoramic city tour in Malaga, which is also home to the Picasso Museum, the Malaga Cathedral, commissioned as a sign of the end of Muslim rule and still partially unfinished to this day, Palaza de la Merced, and Torre de la Vela, which has become the symbol of Malaga, are among the main places to see. At the end of the Malaga city tour, we depart for Seville. En route, guests who wish may join our extra Ronda Tour (50 Euro) program. Ronda, with its very narrow winding streets and lime-white houses, is famous for being built on a dune hill and is divided into two by the El Tajo Canyon. At the bottom of the canyon, 120 meters deep, the Guadalevin River flows. Puento Nuevo (New Bridge), where we can photograph the river’s most beautiful views, Plaza de Toros, the Old Town, Santa María la Mayor Church, and Mondragon Palace are among the places we can see panoramically during our city tour. After the tour, we continue our journey to Seville. Upon arrival in Seville, we arrange our city tour. Seville, the most populous and most developed city in Andalusia, owes its exotic and rich cultural history to the period of rule by the Moors, North African Muslims, throughout its history. We explore Seville accompanied by beautiful and magnificent cathedrals, squares, palaces, museums, towers, and churches. During our tour, Plaza de España, where some scenes from Star Wars 2 were filmed, the octagonal Torre del Oro (Golden Tower), built for defense but later also used as a prison, the Seville Cathedral and Giralda Bell Tower, the 3rd largest Gothic cathedral in the world and listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1987, and Maria Luisa Park are among the panoramic sights. After our tour, during the free time offered in the city center, guests who wish may join our extra Flamenco Show (60 Euro) program. After the world-famous Flamenco performance, known as the cry of the lower class to the upper class and where dance comes to life, we transfer to our hotel in the Seville region. Check-in and free time to rest.
SEVILLE – (Mosque and Cathedral of Cordoba Tour) – CORDOBA – (Toledo Tour) – MADRID
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we depart for Cordoba. Upon arrival in Cordoba, we explore Cordoba, founded during the Roman Empire period and in the 10th century the largest city in Europe under Islamic rule. In our city tour in the city center, which still reflects Islamic influences and was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1984, the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, with a history spanning 1,000 years, the Roman Bridge, St. Nicola Church, and the Jewish Quarter are among the places to be seen panoramically. During the free time offered after the tour, guests who wish may join our extra Mosque and Cathedral of Cordoba Tour (45 Euro) program accompanied by our local guide. “entrance fee included” After our panoramic city tour in Cordoba, we set off for Madrid. En route, guests who wish may join our extra Toledo Tour (60 Euro) program. Founded by Jews in 590 BC and today home to people belonging to three major religions living together peacefully, Toledo, which is among Spain’s most important cities in historical and touristic terms, is also known as the “City of Knights.” The Tagus, the largest river on the Iberian Peninsula, passes through the city. The city was the capital of the Kingdom of Spain for a long time. Because it is one of the largest medieval cities in the world, it has been included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List and taken under protection. Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, was born in this city. The Toledo Cathedral, which took about 270 years to build, was formerly a mosque and is now the world’s 3rd most important and Spain’s principal cathedral, containing some of the world’s most expensive works; San Martin Bridge, Damasquinos (Damascene work), workshops and shops where gold handicrafts are made, are among the places to be seen panoramically during our city tour. At the end of the Toledo Tour, we continue our journey to Madrid and after arrival transfer to our hotel in the Madrid region. Check-in and free time to rest.
MADRID – (Salamanca Tour) – PORTO
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we set off to conduct our Madrid city tour. Madrid, the capital of the Kingdom of Spain and also the third largest city in the European Union, is regarded as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center. During the city tour we will conduct in Madrid, where statues, monuments, and natural beauty blend with modern architecture, Plaza Mayor, Paseo de la Castellana, the bullfighting arena, Gran Via, Plaza de España, the Royal Palace, and Puerto de Alcalá are the places to be seen panoramically. After the free time offered at the end of the Madrid city tour, we depart for Porto. En route, guests who wish may join our extra Salamanca Tour (50 Euro) program. Salamanca, in northwestern Spain, established on the banks of the Tormes River and home to the Salamanca University, the first university in Spain and the oldest in Europe, with its ancient historical riches stretching from the Carthaginians to the Romans, is an active cultural, trade, and tourism city. Together with its historical and cultural riches, after the sightseeing tour in Salamanca, which was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1988, and the short free time we will give in Plaza Mayor, one of the most beautiful squares in Europe, we continue towards Porto. Upon arrival at our hotel in the Porto region, check-in and free time to rest.
PORTO – (Porto Masterpieces Tour) – (Obidos Tour) – LISBON
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we depart for Lisbon. En route, guests who wish may join our extra Porto Masterpieces Tour (65 Euro) program. Porto is a historic city located in northern Portugal on the banks of the Douro River. On our panoramic city tour, we will see the city’s UNESCO-protected historical fabric and iconic structures. On our tour, we first proceed along Avenida dos Aliados. As one of Porto’s widest boulevards, this avenue is among the panoramic sights with its historic granite-stone buildings and city hall view. Next, we will see São Bento Train Station from the outside. The blue-and-white azulejo tiles on the station’s interior walls depict scenes from Portuguese history. On our route, Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto) will be seen panoramically from the outside. Located on one of the city’s highest points, the cathedral area is one of the spots where a short break will be given to photograph Porto’s historic center. Then we continue panoramically along the Ribeira District, which stands out with its narrow streets and traditional houses. Afterwards, the UNESCO-listed Luís I Bridge will be seen panoramically. The bridge’s iron structure forms one of the city’s most recognizable silhouettes. From here, we reach the Clérigos Tower and Livraria Lello area; the tower will be seen panoramically from the outside and Lello’s exterior can be photographed. We complete the tour by seeing Bolhão Market and the surrounding commercial axis. This area, where local products are sold, is one of the places where we can observe Porto’s daily life. At the end of the Porto Masterpieces Tour, we continue our journey to Lisbon. En route, guests who wish may join our extra Obidos Tour (50 Euro) program. In the medieval town of Obidos, surrounded by walls on a hill and making visitors feel the architectural features of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Gothic periods through its cobblestone streets, the Roman-origin Obidos Castle, St. John Baptist Church, and Rua Direita, which attracts the most visitors as the town’s main street, are among the main sights. After the Obidos Tour, we arrive at our hotel in the Lisbon region. Free time for check-in.
LISBON – (Lisbon Masterpieces Tour) – (Atlantic Coasts Tour) – (Lisbon Night Tour with Dinner) – (Fado Show)
After breakfast, we offer free time for the whole day. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Lisbon Masterpieces Tour (55 Euro) program. Lisbon, the capital of Portugal and, like Istanbul, a city with two sides, is also the 6th city in Europe attracting the most tourists throughout the year. Lisbon, ruled throughout history by the Phoenicians, Romans, North African Muslims, and finally the Portuguese, hosts many historical works with this history dating back to 1200 BC. During the tour we will conduct in Lisbon, the historical section of the city where Rossio Square and St. George’s Castle are located, and the Santa Justa Lift are among the main sights. After the city tour, we offer free time in the city center. As the continuation of our city tour, Belem Tower and the Monument to the Discoveries, built during the Age of Discoveries and carrying symbolic significance for Portugal, will be seen and free time will be given for a photo break. Then, Avenida da Liberdade, known as Lisbon’s Champs-Élysées and famous for its cafés, quality shops, and restaurants, is among the places to be seen, and we will have the opportunity to discover the city of Lisbon from different angles. At the end of the tour, we offer free time. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Atlantic Coasts Tour (85 Euro) program. The first stop of our tour will be the town of Sintra. Sintra will welcome us with its boutique shops, colorful and ornate houses resembling castles, and cobblestone streets. However, the most important feature that earned the town a place on the UNESCO World Heritage List is its architectural monuments and buildings from the Romantic period. After our Sintra visit, during which we will walk through streets and avenues surrounded by palaces and churches, our next stop will be Cabo da Roca, called “the End of the World” and the westernmost point of the European Continent. After a short break for you to take photos of the ocean and the famous beaches frequented by surfers, we continue our tour with a panoramic sightseeing tour in Cascais, a fishing town. At the end of the tour, we return to our hotel in the Lisbon region and free time to rest. After the free time for check-in, guests who wish may join our extra Lisbon Night Tour with Dinner (55 Euro) program. In our tour, we first proceed to the banks of the Tagus River and panoramically follow the Cais do Sodré and Ribeira das Naus line. The illuminated waterfront road offers Lisbon’s modern side with a pleasant view in the evening. Then, we will panoramically see the outer surroundings of the historic Alfama hills, which are not included in our daytime tour. The illuminated silhouette of the narrow streets allows us to observe the city’s traditional fabric in the evening. Next, we panoramically see the evening ambiance of Praça do Comércio from the outside. The square’s yellow arcades and riverfront lighting create one of Lisbon’s most impressive evening views. After the night tour, we complete our tour with dinner at a local restaurant and offer free time. During this free time, guests who wish may join our extra Fado Show (45 Euro) program. In our tour, we attend the Fado Show, where we listen to Fado music, unique to Portugal, which emerged from the emotional and sorrowful laments of sailors’ wives and became world-famous. After the tour, we return to our hotel in the Lisbon region.
LISBON – OUTLET – İZMİR
After breakfast and hotel check-out, we depart for Lisbon Airport for our return flight to İzmir. En route, after free time for quality and affordable shopping at the outlet center, which hosts stylish stores of world-famous prestigious brands, cafes and restaurants, and personal activity areas, we complete our outlet tour and continue our journey to the airport. After the baggage drop-off, check-in, and passport control procedures to be completed upon arrival at the airport, we fly to İzmir at 14:55 on Pegasus Airlines’ direct scheduled flight PC1562. Arrival at İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport at 19:20 local time and the end of our tour.