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Traveling Well Includes… • Sightseeing by bicycle in Seville, a fabulous tour of the city, old and new • Guided, kid-friendly visit to Museo del Prado in Madrid, one of the world’s great art museums • Tour of a soccer stadium, home to Real Madrid, & a visit with a retired player from this elite club • Hands-on workshop in papier mache molding and puppet-making • Visit to a hacienda to learn about rejoneo, the art of bullfighting on horseback • An exclusive cooking class in Spanish cuisine and the art of making tapas • Airport transfers on arrival and departure as noted
• 15 meals, all gratuities to Tauck Director, local guides & drivers, service charges, admission fees, taxes & porterage
2. PRADO, PUPPETS AND FUTBOL Madrid is a backdrop of stunning Baroque palaces and wonders of modern design, one of which is sure to floor you on your guided walk this morning: a vertical garden, four stories high, clinging to a wall of the CaixaForum Museum. 15,000 plants watered by an invisible irrigation system create a landscape (and a living sculpture) that defies gravity. More traditional (but no less amazing) works of art await you on a kid-friendly tour of the Museo del Prado, a palace housing more than 7,600 paintings, many by Spanish masters like Velázquez, Goya, and El Greco. Leave the Prado for another cultural treasure, the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu, home of Real Madrid, the most successful team in futbol history. Lunch in a café with sweeping views of the field, then get a tour of the stadium, including a visit with a retired player who’ll share personal stories about his life with the club. Later, get your hands on some classic literary characters (literally) and learn about storytelling at a puppet-making workshop. Kids will create papier mache characters from Cervantes’ classic novel Don Quixote (about an eccentric old knight who wanders the countryside in search of giants to fight and damsels to rescue) while adults mold characters based on paintings in the Prado. Meals BL
3. HOW TO BE A MADRILEÑO “If you’re in Madrid, you’re from Madrid” is a common saying here, reflecting the city’s easy, welcoming attitude towards visitors. Get a taste of life as a Madrileño, starting with a bike tour of El Retiro Park, a 350-acre retreat full of lakes, sculpture, and palaces, where Madrileños come to escape the heat and hustle of the city. From El Retiro, it’s not far to a hidden place (which every local knows), the Chocolateria de San Gines, where you can lose yourself in rich, thick Spanish-style hot chocolate, with churros, long thin donuts made for dunking. Later, ride out to the colorful Chueca district, famous for its gourmet food market, El Mercado de San Antón. Make your selection and dine in the café, on a terrace overlooking the neighborhood. How Madrileño-like can you get? Meals BD
Call your travel agent or Tauck Bridges at 877-519-1035
4. SEVILLE: SUN, TAPAS & AMAZING STORIES This morning, leave Madrid by high-speed train and arrive in Seville before noon. Your luxury digs are at the Hotel Alfonso XIII, whose ornate design echoes the influence of the Moors who ruled Spain for centuries: extravagant arches, ornamental towers, hand-painted tiles, and rich marble. Enjoy a barbecue lunch, poolside, then take a walk through the historic district. This evening, you have a date with the soul of Spanish cuisine, a hands-on cooking class where you’ll master the art of tapas, a ubiquitous hors d’oeuvre, wildly popular in the U.S., that originated centuries ago in this part of Andalusia. Meals BLD
Learn how horses are trained in the bullfighting art of rejoneo
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