Tour Code: IT0IBMADCUL
Day 1 - Departure
Evening departure. Dinner and breakfast served on board.
Day 2 - Madrid - Churros and Chocolate - Walking Tour
Upon arrival, you will be met by a Bravo representative and
transferred to your hotel. While you wait for your room, you will
go out for churros y chocolate. After
your hotel check-in and a little rest, you will go for a bocadillo
lunch at el museo de jamón. After
lunch your walking tour will cover the following: Plaza
de Espana - Plaza de Oriente - La catedral de nuestra senora de
la Almudena - Plaza Mayor - La Puerta del Sol - La Iglesia de San
Ginés - El monasterio de las Descalzas Reales - Gran Via - Plaza
de Cibeles - La Puerta de Alcalá - El parque del Retiro. You
will return to your hotel by metro for dinner and
lodging.
Day 3 - Madrid - El Rastro - Plaza Mayor - La Corrida
Breakfast. You will go to El Rastro,
Spain's greatest flea market. On the way back to your hotel, you
will stop at the Plaza Mayor to see the
philatelic market. In the afternoon you will go to see la
corrida de toros. This day assumes a Sunday
schedule. When la corrida is not in
season, we will substitute another outdoor event. Dinner and
lodging in your hotel.
Day 4 - The Shopping Market - The
Cooking Class - The Zarzuela
Breakfast. Then you will go to the market to buy
the ingredients that you will use in your cooking class. Your
professional chef will teach you how to cook a typical Spanish
meal. You'd better pay attention and follow instructions because
after the class you must eat what you've made. In the evening you
will attend La Zarzuela -
Spain's comic opera. You need not understand the words to feel
the music's beauty. La Zarzuela, when
not in season, will be replaced by another theatrical event.
Dinner and lodging in your hotel.
Day 5 - El Paseo De Arte
Breakfast. Today you visit the three museums which
comprise Madrid's art triangle: the Prado,
the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen.
You will see some of the greatest works of Velázquez, Goya, El
Greco, Dalí, and Picasso. In the afternoon you will see a
Spanish movie. Dinner and lodging in your hotel.
Day 6 - Lecture - Casa Mingo - La
Ermita de San Antonio
Breakfast. Then you will be given a one-hour
conference on Madrid's cultural reality. Afterwards, you will
lunch at Casa Mingo, a restaurant which
is over one hundred and fifty years old and which is noted for
its pollo asado y sidra. After lunch
you will stop in La Ermita de San Antonio
to see the frescoes of Francisco Goya. After dinner at your
hotel, you will go to a tablao to see a Flamenco show.
Day 7 - Museums - El Corte Inglés -
Local Dining
Breakfast. Then, you may choose to visit up to
three different museums, depending on your group's interests. In
the afternoon, you will visit the famous department store, el
Corte Inglés, for your last-minute gift shopping.
In the evening you will have dinner in a local restaurant.
Day 8 - Departure
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport for your return
flight.
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