Days 1-2: Home - Madrid Arrival transfer Tour director-led walking tour to Plaza Mayor

Ole, Spain! Group Organizer: Ms. Katie Austin Tour Includes Investment Departure Date Meals May 28, 2019 Overnights All breakfasts. All dinners. Flamenco dinner and show on Day 3. Cochinillo dinner on Day 7. Madrid 2 Toledo 1 Salamanca 2 Segovia 1 Barcelona 3 Tour Director Accommodations Accommodations in centrally-located three-star or four-star hotels. Rooming on a triple basis. Double rooms: $360 per person. Transportation Round-trip transportation on scheduled airline. Deluxe touring motorcoach. passports.com Tour Cost $5389 -$200 Early Enrollment Discount Total $5189 E-Z Payments Services of a specially-trained passports Tour Director throughout. Travel Protection passports provides and pays for a PostDeparture Travel Protection Plan that provides coverage for Trip Interruption, Trip Delay, Baggage Loss or Delay, Medical Expense and Evacuation and more. $318 monthly after $95 deposit Early Enrollment Discount expires March 15, 2018. Final payment is due 2/7/2019 or, with E-Z Pay, 4/28/2019. Tour cost is based on enrollment of 20 participants. Departure from Mobile, AL. Adults 24 years or older are automatically charged for double rooms. With doubles, total price is $5,549. Enroll Today! 1 Visit our website passports.com/enroll 2 Enter Tour ID KAUSTIN2019-2 7 Midstate Drive 102, Auburn, MA 01501 800 332 7277

Ole, Spain! Departs: May 28, 2019 Days 1-2: Home - Madrid Arrival transfer Tour director-led walking tour to Plaza Mayor Day 3: Madrid Half-day city sightseeing: Local Guide, Prado Museum, Prado headset Casa de Campo Amusement Park: Teleférico de Madrid cable car ride Flamenco dinner and show Day 4: Madrid - Toledo Guided walking tour in Toledo: Toledo Cathedral, Synagogue, El Greco's painting at the Santo Tomé Church, Damascene demonstration Day 5: Toledo - Salamanca Sightseeing stop in Ávila, Los Cuatro Postes viewpoint above Ávila Day 6: Salamanca Guided walking tour in Salamanca: Salamanca University's Historic Center, Old Cathedral, New Cathedral Orchard of Calixto and Melibea Day 7: Salamanca - Segovia Guided walking tour: Segovia's Alcázar, Segovia Cathedral Cochinillo dinner Day 8: Segovia - Barcelona AVE train Madrid-Barcelona, Arrival transfer Day 9: Barcelona Barcelona City Sightseeing: Local Guide, Montjuïc Hill, Sagrada Familia Basilica, Parc Güell Tour director-led walking tour down Las Ramblas Day 10: Barcelona Excursion to Montserrat: Montserrat Basilica, Montserrat Funicular Tour director-led walking tour to Montjuïc's Plaza de Las Cascadas Magic Fountain of Montjuïc Day 11: Departure Departure transfer

Detailed Itinerary Tuesday 5/28 - Wednesday 5/29 Home - Madrid Arrival transfer Tour director-led walking tour to Plaza Mayor Meals included: Dinner Overnight: Madrid Days 1-2: Arrival, Plaza Mayor Walking Tour A dream comes true as your wide-bodied jet thunders off the airstrip, Europe-bound! Watch the sun rise up to meet your airplane, after a short night. Spain glides by beneath your airplane, in shades of sienna, as you head towards Madrid's Barajas Airport. Get settled in your madrileño hotel and explore your surroundings. For lunch, why not duck into a sidewalk mesón for a sopa de pescado or some calamares? Tour director-led walking tour to Plaza Mayor Follow your tour director on a stroll to Plaza Mayor, the heart of the Old City. Thursday 5/30 Madrid Half-day city sightseeing: Local Guide, Prado Museum, Prado headset Casa de Campo Amusement Park: Teleférico de Madrid cable car ride Flamenco dinner and show Meals included: Breakfast, Flamenco dinner and show Overnight: Madrid Day 3: Madrid City Sightseeing, Casa de Campo Amusement Park, Flamenco Dinner and Show On a tour of the city, you will be introduced to the sights and the city grand squares: Plaza Mayor, Puerta del Sol, Plaza de España with the Cervantes Monument, Gran Vía, Calle Alcalá, Plaza de Colón, and Plaza de Cibeles with its fountains. A half-day local guide, well-educated and specially-trained on the history and culture of Madrid and its surroundings, will accompany your group. Prado Museum View world-famous paintings by El Greco, Goya, and Velázquez, and much. much more, at the magnificent Museo del Prado. Casa de Campo Amusement Park Visit the Parque de Atracciones, the amusement park that's located in Casa de Campo, Madrid's largest public park. Rides, arranged in four zones, feature star attractions such as Fjords, with aquatic thrills, as well as Top Spin and Vertigo, known for their spectacular dives. Enjoy a ride on the teleférico that goes up to Casa de Campo, the largest public park in Madrid. Flamenco dinner and show Tonight, enjoy dinner and an evening of traditional entertainment, flamenco! The poet Federico García Lorca called it "the most gigantic creation of the Spanish people." You will long remember its complex and insistent rhythms, castanets, guitars and clacking heels as the highlight of your trip to Spain.

Friday 5/31 Madrid - Toledo Guided walking tour in Toledo: Toledo Cathedral, Synagogue, El Greco's painting at the Santo Tomé Church, Damascene demonstration Overnight: Toledo Day 4: Travel to Toledo Guided Walking Tour It's off to Toledo! The city is surrounded on three sides by the Río Tajo, which has cut a deep gorge out of the encircling mountains. Christianity, Judaism and Islam coexist on the tiny streets of this ancient city, which was once the capital of Spain. Indeed, the entire panorama of Spanish history is embodied in its churches, synagogues, Moorish mosques and fortifications. Guided walking tour in Toledo Your guided walking tour starts at the main square, Plaza de Zocodover. Toledo Cathedral You will visit the cathedral, one of the most venerated in the country. It took almost 300 years to build and was completed in 1492. Its treasury contains an impressive display of gold and silver vessels and alabaster sculpture. Synagogue Enjoy a visit to one of the city's two remaining medieval synagogues. El Greco's painting at the Santo Tomé Church Visit the Church of St. Thomas to view El Greco's Burial of the Count of Orgaz, a fresco commissioned in honor of a Spanish nobleman who was known for his generosity and charitable deeds. Damascene demonstration For centuries, Toledo has excelled in the manufacture of swords and damascene artifacts made of steel inlaid with gold and silver. Skilled artisans carry on the tradition, as you will see during a damascene manufacturing demonstration. Free time in Toledo In the evening, when the day-trippers have gone back to Madrid, Toledo's centuries-old charm is more vivid, the local color more palpable. Join the locals on a paseo (stroll) through the city center and feel the history.

Saturday 6/1 Toledo - Salamanca Sightseeing stop in Ávila, Los Cuatro Postes viewpoint above Ávila Overnight: Salamanca Day 5: Ávila, Salamanca Travel to the "Town of Stones and Saints," which stands on an abrupt spur above the Adaja River, in the middle of a windswept plateau overlooked by the dramatic Sierra de Gredos. Sightseeing stop in Ávila Enter through one of the nine gates in the intact medieval walls, which date back to 1090. "Ávila of the Knights" was a city of importance in the Middle Ages, with many Romanesque churches and a great cathedral with a castellated apse that was also a bastion in the city walls. Two of Christianity's greatest mystics, St. Teresa of Ávila and St. John of the Cross lived there in the 1500s. Los Cuatro Postes viewpoint above Ávila Stop at a small hilltop shrine located a mile from Ávila. Back in 1522, the future Saint Teresa of Ávila, at the age of seven, was caught there by her uncle as she was running away with her equally young brother to seek martyrdom at a battle waged against the Moors. The site of Los Cuatro Postes affords one of the best panoramic views of the walled city. Travel to Salamanca Proceed to the showpiece of Spanish Renaissance that inspired the poet Miguel de Unamuno. Salamanca rises from the banks of the Tormes River, adorned with turrets and spires, old houses and golden sandstone walls. Welcome to one of Spain's most architecturally beautiful cities!

Sunday 6/2 Salamanca Guided walking tour in Salamanca: Salamanca University's Historic Center, Old Cathedral, New Cathedral Orchard of Calixto and Melibea Overnight: Salamanca Day 6: Salamanca Guided Walking Tour, Orchard of Calixto and Melibea Today, explore Salamanca on a walking tour led by local guide. You will see landmarks such as the Casa de las Conchas with its shell decorations, the Roman bridge and the Plaza Mayor, a former bullfight enclosure which is now one of the most elegant squares in Spain. It has been said of Salamanca's Plaza Mayor that "mere mortals cannot achieve anything greater." Salamanca University's Historic Center Walk through the core of the campus of the eminent Universidad de Salamanca. Founded in 1218 by King Alfonso IX of Léon, it's Spain's oldest university and Europe's third oldest in continuous operation. Your visit includes admission to the Escuelas Mayores, built between 1411 and 1533, which house the University Library and the University Chapel, and the Archbishop Fonseca College, built in 1538 with an arcaded courtyard known for its medallions of Uomini Famosi. Old Cathedral You will visit the Catedral Vieja, a most interesting example of Spanish Romanesque architecture that dates back to the 12th-century. New Cathedral Enter the Nueva Catedral, whose architecture combines Gothic and Baroque features as it was built from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Orchard of Calixto and Melibea Walk through the public park known as Huerto de Calixto y Melibea, a romantic oasis set within the city walls which is often used for weddings. It's named after the heroes of La Celestina, a 1499 novel by Fernando de Rojas that's a jewel of early Spanish literature. It tells the tragic story of a Christian Romeo and his Jewish Juliet that has inspired Spanish writers and lovers ever since. The park, restored to recapture its medieval look, stands on the site where Calisto and Melibea are said to have met.

Monday 6/3 Salamanca - Segovia Guided walking tour: Segovia's Alcázar, Segovia Cathedral Cochinillo dinner Meals included: Breakfast, Cochinillo dinner Overnight: Segovia Day 7: Travel to Segovia Segovia Guided Walking Tour Cochinillo Dinner Today's coach journey takes you to Segovia, where Isabella, Christopher Columbus' sponsor, was proclaimed Queen of Castile. During the Middle Ages, a large textile industry created such wealth and influence that, by the 17th century, Segovia was almost a city-state and minting its own coins, the largest coins in Europe at the time! Guided walking tour On a walking tour led by a local guide, you will see why Segovia is said to resemble a "living museum," replete with ancient houses, splendid courtyards, a well-preserved Roman aqueduct and an imposing cathedral crowned by crenellated towers. Segovia's Alcázar Visit the most-photographed of all the Spanish castles, Segovia's Alcázar, whose perfectly-proportioned features symbolize the medieval heritage of Spain. Segovia Cathedral You will visit the cathedral, la dama de las catedrales españolas, which is located in the main square of the city, Plaza Mayor. It was built in 1527 in the Gothic style by Juan Gil de Hontanon. Cochinillo dinner Dinner at the famous restaurant Mesón de Cándido features cochinillo, a typical dish with roasted suckling pig served on a clay platter. Tuesday 6/4 Segovia - Barcelona AVE train Madrid-Barcelona, Arrival transfer Overnight: Barcelona Day 8: Madrid, Train to Barcelona Travel over the sierras to Madrid. An Alta Velocidad train takes you at high speed across the semi-deserts of northern Spain, from the dusty plains of Castile to palm-fringed Mediterranean shores. Enjoy a free evening in this Mediterranean town of parks and fountains.

Wednesday 6/5 Barcelona Barcelona City Sightseeing: Local Guide, Montjuïc Hill, Sagrada Familia Basilica, Parc Güell Tour director-led walking tour down Las Ramblas Overnight: Barcelona Day 9: Barcelona City Sightseeing, Las Ramblas Walking Tour A tour will introduce landmarks such as the wide avenues called Las Ramblas, the medieval Gothic Quarter around the cathedral, Modernist landmarks such as the Basilica of the Sagrada Família, and Plaça de Catalunya, the lively heart of Catalonia's capital city. A half-day local guide, well-educated and specially-trained on the history and culture of the region, will accompany your group. Montjuïc Hill You'll go up Montjuïc Hill for a panoramic view of the city, the the colorful harbor district, and the Mediterranean coast. Sagrada Familia Basilica Visit the extraordinary-looking basilica whose construction was planned in the 1870s. Antonio Gaudí worked for more than forty years to create a unique and huge sanctuary still far from completion. The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia combines elements of Gothic architecture and the tenets of the Modernista movement associated with Gaudí. Parc Güell Enjoy a visit to Gaudí's most colorful creations on exhibit in Parc Güell, notably the mosaic-decorated pavilions and the cavernous Room of a Hundred Columns. Tour director-led walking tour down Las Ramblas Get acquainted with the string of shaded avenues stretched from the elegant Plaça de Catalunya to the Columbus Monument, which marks the spot on the waterfront where the explorer stepped ashore in 1493 after his voyage of discovery. Landmarks along the way include elegant palaces such as Palau Güell (designed by Gaudí in the 1890s and now a UNESCO Cultural Heritage site as one of the first Modernist buildings), the Opera House (Gran Teatre del Liceu, inaugurated in 1848), and Plaça de la Boquería, with the city's most colorful market.

Thursday 6/6 Barcelona Excursion to Montserrat: Montserrat Basilica, Montserrat Funicular Tour director-led walking tour to Montjuïc's Plaza de Las Cascadas Magic Fountain of Montjuïc Overnight: Barcelona Day 10: Excursion to Montserrat, Plaza de Las Cascadas Walking Tour, Magic Fountain Enjoy a visit to Catalonia's holiest place, the Monastery of Montserrat, located amidst the serrated peaks of the Montserrat mountain range. Montserrat has served as a place of pilgrimage since the 12th century. After being destroyed by the French in 1811, the monastery complex was rebuilt and repopulated in 1844 and now includes quaint shops and cafés. Montserrat Basilica You will enter the Basilica to view La Moreneta (Black Virgin). This revered statue, said to have been carved out of wood by St. Luke around 50 AD, has been on the mountain since it was rediscovered in 880 AD after being hidden from the Moors. Montserrat Funicular Enjoy a funicular ride for the last leg up the mountain, which affords stupendous views stretching from the Pyrénées Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea. Tour director-led walking tour to Montjuïc's Plaza de Las Cascadas Head to Plaça de les Cascades, set below Montjuïc Hill. Magic Fountain of Montjuïc View the illuminated fountain in front of the National Palace, at the foot of Montjuïc Hill. Designed by Carles Buigas for the 1929 World Exhibition, the Font màgica provides a spectacular display of sprays and cascades programmed to flow in harmony with music and a multicolored light show. Friday 6/7 Departure Departure transfer Meals included: Breakfast Day 11: Departure Adios España! Barcelona's airport recedes, and you're 500 miles closer to home with each hour in the air. You'll be back! For now, race the sun westward, arriving home later today, eager to share your experiences with family and friends.