İZMİR – BARCELONA
We arrive at İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport International Terminal 3 hours before our flight and, after completing baggage drop-off, ticket, and passport control procedures, we fly to Barcelona on Pegasus Airlines’ scheduled flight PC1527 at 11:15. Upon our arrival in Barcelona at 12:40 local time, we set off on a panoramic Barcelona city tour with our private bus waiting for us at the airport. On our tour, we first go up to Montjuïc Hill, where we can enjoy panoramic views of the entire city. After a photo break here with the city’s unique and breathtaking view, we will see the Christopher Columbus Monument, Plaza de España, and Port Olímpic (the marina). After arrival at the hotel, room assignment 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 to Carmel Hill, where we can enjoy the city’s magnificent view, and visit Park Güell, designed and built by Antoni Gaudí. “Entrance fee included” We offer free time for photos and a surrounding walk in Park Güell, which was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1984 and takes visitors into a fairy-tale world with its vibrant colors and figures inspired by nature. Then we will see Casa Milà, one of Gaudí’s most important works contributing to the city’s architecture (Gaudí’s House), and complete our tour with a walk around La Sagrada Familia. After the Barcelona Icons Tour, we begin the second part of our tour, the Girona & Figueres - Dali Museum program. In our tour, we set off toward Figueres. After a short orientation tour in Figueres, where Salvador Dalí was born and which houses the museum he designed from a theatre building to place his works while he was still alive, we will visit the Dali Museum “entrance fee included” and, in the museum that houses 4,000 works by Dalí, we will embark on an art tour with 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 visitors with its museums, galleries, Gothic architectural works, and walls rising around its cobbled narrow labyrinthine streets. In our visit in Girona, we will see and photograph the colorful houses lined along the banks of the Onyar River that divides the city into two, and we will walk in Libertat Street, a traffic-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 seeing Girona Cathedral panoramically. After the tour, we return to our hotel.
BARCELONA – VALENCIA – ALICANTE
After breakfast, after completing check-out procedures, we set off for Valencia. Upon arrival in Valencia, on our panoramic city tour, the Gothic Cathedral, Valencia Cathedral, the medieval walls surrounding the old city, Torres de Serranos, Reina Square, Marques de dos Aguas Palace, and Town Hall Square are among the places to be seen. After the tour, we complete the tour with free time and head to Alicante, one of Spain’s most important tourism cities with its mild climate for 12 months, famous for its beaches and promenade. Upon arrival and after a surrounding tour, we reach our hotel in the Alicante region. Room assignment and free time to rest.
ALICANTE – GRANADA – (Alhambra Palace Tour) – (Sacromonte & Gypsy Show)
After breakfast and 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 was largely influenced by the Romans and the Umayyads throughout its rich history and hosts the Alhambra Palace, among the remains from the Umayyad and Abbasid periods on the historic Andalusian/Granada streets are the Christopher Columbus Monument, Gran Via, La Rambla, and City Hall Square. Free time after the city tour. Guests who wish may join our extra Alhambra Palace Tour (65 Euro) program. We see the Alhambra Palace, one of the most extraordinary memories not only of Andalusia but of the entire Islamic history, famous for its Arabesque architecture, pools, and gardens, and included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List. (It is carried out depending on the palace’s availability, and advance guaranteed pre-reservation is recommended at the time of package tour registration. Entrance fee is included in the extra tour price and excludes the harem entrance). After our visit to the Alhambra, transfer to our hotel in the Granada region. Room assignment and free time to rest. In the evening, we organize our extra Sacromonte & Gypsy Show (45 Euro) program with guests who wish. Across from the Alhambra, in Sacromonte, one of Granada’s oldest settlements with its white houses and labyrinth-like, winding, steep, and stair-filled streets, where we can watch and photograph the red walls of the Alhambra Palace from afar through every opening, we watch the Gypsy Show. After the tour, we arrive at our hotel in the Granada region. Room assignment and free time to rest.
GRANADA – MALAGA – (Ronda Tour) – SEVILLE – (Flamenco Show Tour)
After breakfast and check-out, we head to Malaga. Panoramic city tour upon arrival in Malaga. Malaga, the 2nd most populous city in Andalusia and the 6th 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 the panoramic city tour we will carry out in Malaga, which also houses the Picasso Museum, Malaga Cathedral, built as a sign of the end of Muslim rule and still partially unfinished to this day, Plaza 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 move toward Seville. On the way, guests who wish may join the extra Ronda Tour (50 Euro) program. Ronda, with its narrow winding streets and whitewashed houses, is famous for being built on a sandy hill and is divided into two by the El Tajo Canyon. At the bottom of the canyon, 120 meters deep, flows the Guadalevín River. Puente Nuevo (New Bridge), where we can photograph the river’s most beautiful views, Plaza de Toros, the Old Town, Santa Maria 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 organize 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 discover Seville accompanied by beautiful and magnificent cathedrals, squares, palaces, museums, towers, and churches. During our tour, Plaza de España, where some scenes of Star Wars 2 were filmed, Torre del Oro, an octagonal tower originally built for defense and later also used as a prison, Seville Cathedral and the Giralda Bell Tower, the 3rd largest Gothic cathedral in the world and on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1987, and Maria Luisa Park are among the panoramic sights. After our tour, during the free time to be 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, transfer to our hotel in the Seville region. Room assignment and free time to rest.
SEVILLE – (Córdoba Mosque and Cathedral Tour) – CORDOBA – (Toledo Tour) – MADRID
After breakfast and check-out, we depart for Córdoba. Upon arrival in Córdoba, we discover Córdoba, founded during the Roman Empire and in the 10th century the largest city in Europe under the protection of the Islamic state. In our city tour in the city center, which still shows Islamic influences today and was included in the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1984, among the sights with a history of 1000 years are the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, the Roman Bridge, St. Nicola Church, and the Jewish Quarter. During the free time to be offered at the end of the tour, guests who wish may join our extra Córdoba Mosque and Cathedral Tour (45 Euro) program with our local guide. “Entrance fee included” After our panoramic city tour in Córdoba, we set off toward Madrid. On the way, guests who wish may join the extra Toledo Tour (60 Euro) program. Founded by Jews in 590 BC, and today one of Spain’s most important cities in historical and tourist terms, where people belonging to three major religions live together peacefully, Toledo is also known as the “City of Knights.” The Tagus River, 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 protected. Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, was born in this city. Toledo Cathedral, which took about 270 years to build, was formerly a mosque and is now the world’s 3rd most important cathedral and the main cathedral of Spain, containing some of the world’s most expensive works of art. San Martin Bridge, Damasquinos (Damascene work), workshops and shops where gold handcrafting is done are among the places to be seen panoramically during our city tour. At the end of the Toledo Tour, we continue our journey toward Madrid and, upon arrival, transfer to our hotel in the Madrid region. Room assignment and free time to rest.
MADRID – (Salamanca Tour) – PORTO
After breakfast and check-out, we set off to take 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 political, economic, and cultural center of the country. During the city tour we will carry out in Madrid, where statues, monuments, and natural beauty blend with modern architecture, Plaza Mayor, Paseo de la Castellana, the bullring, Gran Via, Plaza de España, the Royal Palace, and Puerta de Alcalá are among the places to be seen panoramically. At the end of the Madrid city tour, after the free time to be offered, we set off for Porto. On the way, guests who wish may join the extra Salamanca Tour (50 Euro) program. Salamanca is a vibrant culture, trade, and tourism city in northwestern Spain, established on the banks of the Tormes River and home to the Salamanca University, the first in Spain and one of Europe’s oldest universities, with its ancient historical riches stretching from the Carthaginians to the Romans. Together with its historical and cultural riches, after the surrounding tour we will carry out in Salamanca, which was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in 1988, and the short free time we will offer at Plaza Mayor, one of Europe’s most beautiful squares, we continue toward Porto. Upon arrival at our hotel in the Porto region, room assignment and free time to rest.
PORTO – (Porto Masterpieces Tour) – (Obidos Tour) – LISBON
After breakfast and check-out, we set off toward Lisbon. On the way, guests who wish may join the 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 texture and landmarks. On our tour, we first proceed along Avenida dos Aliados. This avenue, one of Porto’s widest boulevards, is among the areas to be seen panoramically with its historic granite buildings and the view of the city hall. Then we will see São Bento Railway Station from the outside. The blue-and-white azulejo tiles on the station’s interior walls present scenes from Portuguese history. On our route, Porto Cathedral (Sé do Porto) will be seen panoramically from the outside. The cathedral area, located on one of the city’s highest points, is one of the stops where a short break will be given to photograph Porto’s historic center. Then we continue panoramically along 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 creates one of the city’s most recognized silhouettes. From here we reach Clérigos Tower and the 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 toward Lisbon. On the way, guests who wish may join the extra Obidos Tour (50 Euro) program. In the medieval town of Obidos, surrounded by walls on a hill and with its cobblestone streets conveying Renaissance, Baroque, and Gothic architectural characteristics to visitors, the Obidos Castle of Roman origin, St. John the Baptist Church, and Rua Direita, which attracts the most visitors as the town’s main street, are among the main places to be seen. After the Obidos Tour, we arrive at our hotel in the Lisbon region. Free time offered for room assignment
LISBON – (Lisbon Masterpieces Tour) – (Atlantic Shores Tour) – (Lisbon Evening Tour with Dinner) – (Fado Show)
After breakfast, we offer a full day of free time. 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 2 sides, is also Europe’s 6th most visited city by 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 stretching back to 1200 BC. During the tour we will carry out in Lisbon, the historic part of the city where Rossio Square and St. George’s Castle are located, and the Santa Justa Lift are among the main places to see. After the city tour, we offer free time in the city center. Continuing our city tour, Belem Tower and the Monument to the Discoveries, built during the Age of Discoveries and symbolizing Portugal, will be seen and free time will be given for a photo break. Then Avenida de Liberdade, known as Lisbon’s Champs-Élysées, famous for its cafes, quality shops, and restaurants, is among the places to be seen, and we will have the opportunity to explore Lisbon from different angles. At the end of the tour, we offer free time. During this free time, guests who wish may join the extra Atlantic Shores 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 led to the town being included in the UNESCO World Heritage List is its architectural monuments and buildings from the Romantic Period. After our Sintra tour 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 to take photos of the ocean and the famous beaches frequented by surfers, we continue our tour with a panoramic surrounding tour in the fishing town of Cascais. At the end of the tour, we return to our hotel in the Lisbon region and free time to rest. After the free time offered for room assignment, guests who wish may join our extra Lisbon Evening Tour with Dinner (55 Euro) program. On our tour, first we proceed along the banks of the Tagus River and follow the Cais do Sodré and Ribeira das Naus line panoramically. The illuminated coastal road presents Lisbon’s modern face with a pleasant view in the evening hours. Then we will panoramically see the outer surroundings of the Alfama slopes, which are historical but not included in our daytime tour. The illuminated silhouette of the narrow streets allows us to observe the city’s traditional texture in the evening. Afterwards, we panoramically see the evening ambiance of Praça do Comércio from the outside. The square’s yellow arcades and the lighting by the river create one of Lisbon’s most impressive evening scenes. 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 the extra Fado Show (45 Euro) program. On our tour, we join a Fado Show where we listen to Fado music, unique to Portugal and made world-famous by the emotional and sorrowful laments of sailors’ wives. After the tour, we return to our hotel in the Lisbon region.
LISBON – OUTLET – İZMİR
After breakfast and check-out, we set off for Lisbon Airport for our return flight to İzmir. On the way, 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 with Pegasus Airlines’ direct scheduled flight PC1562. Arrival at İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport at 19:20 local time and the end of our tour.