Payment of bespoke program of private tours 7th and 10th of March 2022. 5 and 6 pax.

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Description and schedule of services
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7th of March: private day trip from Madrid to Toledo.
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9am: meet your personal driver at your accommodation and be transferred in a modern and comfortable Mercedes vehicle to Toledo old town.

10am: upon arrival to Toledo, meet your personal local host to start a private walking tour of the city with a special focus on its Jewish history, from its origins and maximum splendor under the Hispanic-Muslim rule until the Christian conquest of the city. Along your tour you will visit the synagogue of Santa María la Blanca, which is an extraordinary example of the Jewish-Sephardic heritage of the city.
Your tour will also allow you to learn about the presence of the Hispanic-Muslim culture in the city while you are shown some selected samples (civil, religious and defensive) of a particular crossover between Hispanic-Muslim and Christian architecture styles called Mudéjar and which you will later re-encounter in Seville. Halfway along your tour, you will take a stop to sample the local marzipan and get some energies to keep discovering the city.

You will then visit the church of Santo Tomé, which treasures one of the most important paintings by El Greco. Finally, to top up your tour you will visit the Cathedral of Toledo, which is one of the most important ones ever erected in Spain.

1pm: end of your private walking tour of Toledo and free time for lunch and shopping at leisure before your return to Madrid, so you can sample the local gastronomy and check the knife and sword shops. Recommendations of shops and of restaurants will be given and a table will be booked for you if you wish.

4pm: private transfer in a modern and comfortable Mercedes vehicle with dedicated driver from Toledo back to your hotel in Madrid stopping along the way at mirador del valle for excellent panoramic views of the city.

5:15pm: arrival to your accommodation in Madrid and rest of the day at leisure.

Price of this day trip for a private group of 5 people: 168 Euros per person.

This price includes
– Private transportation in a modern and comfortable Mercedes minivan with a dedicated driver throughout the day.
– Personal local host from Genuine Andalusia for your 3h walking tour of Toledo (a fully licensed, knowledgeable, personable, flexible and interactive guide).
– All entrance tickets and admissions (Cathedral, Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca and Church of Santo Tomé).
– Tasting of Marzipan.
– All taxes.

This price excludes
– Lunch (Genuine Andalusia will recommend restaurants suited to your preferences but the cost of lunch is not included).

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10th of March: Seville World Heritage Sites in the morning and Triana flamenco and tapas tour in the evening
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10am: be met by your personal local guide at your accommodation in Seville to start a private walking tour that will take you to the most impressive World Heritages Sites of the city (the Alcazar and the Cathedral with its Giralda tower) and to the quarter of Santa Cruz.

You will start your discovery journey by visiting the Alcazar, which is a massive complex of palaces erected in different periods and of breath-taking gardens of different styles. The Alcazar has stunning historical constructions featuring a very particular crossover between Hispanic-Muslim and Christian architecture styles, called Mudejar. This style became very fashionable in Spain in the 14th and 15th centuries amongst the Christian nobility and it reached its maximum splendour in Seville. Another essential part of the Alcazar is the famous house of Trade, which once hosted the offices from where all the commerce with the new world was managed. After enjoying these inner areas, you will be taken to the gardens, which are an exquisite sample of European landscaping from the 16th until the 20th centuries.

Then you will be taken to visit the Cathedral, which is the largest gothic temple in the World and where Christopher Columbus is buried. The Cathedral of Seville was built on a vast extension of land where previously a Mosque had been erected. An important part of the Mosque was preserved and it is now a part of the Cathedral. This makes it a unique construction featuring styles as diverse as Hispanic-Muslim, Gothic, Renaissance, Neoclassical and Baroque. A most important part of the Cathedral is its bell tower known as la Giralda. During your tour you will be taken to the top in order to enjoy the wonderful views of Seville that one can admire from there.

To finish you will visit the quarter of Santa Cruz, with its countless quaint corners, narrow streets, cosy squares, houses of traditional Southern Spanish architecture and Moorish urban planning. It is in this quarter where an important part of the Jewish Sephardic community of Seville lived in the medieval times and you will learn about what life in the quarter was like then and how it has evolved until becoming what it is today.

1:30pm: after your tour, you may want to be escorted back to your hotel or be given some orientation to enjoy lunch at leisure.

Price of this walking tour for a private group of 6 people: 72 Euros per person.

This price includes
– Personal local host from Genuine Andalusia throughout the tour (a fully licensed, knowledgeable, personable, flexible and interactive guide).
– All entrance tickets and admissions (Cathedral, Giralda and Alcazar).
– All taxes.

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6:30pm: reconnect with your personal local host at your accommodation to start a guided walk towards a selected flamenco venue in the quarter of Triana. This walk is aimed at learning about the origins of flamenco music in South West Spain and also about its evolution throughout the centuries. This will set the context for (and enhance your appreciation and enjoyment of) the flamenco performance in a small and intimate venue that will follow, with 4 people on stage (one singer, one guitarist and two dancers).

7:30pm: start of the flamenco performance.

8:30pm: after your flamenco performance, enjoy a tapas tasting tour through Seville old town. Along the journey, you will learn about and enjoy this genuinely Spanish approach to enjoying a meal. Your tour will take you to 2 – 3 selected tapas bars where locals like to gather with family and friends and where you will taste a selection of 6 – 9 local dishes to share and up to 4 drinks per person (wine, beer, refreshments, water).

10:30pm: after your tapas and wines adventure, be escorted back to your hotel stopping along the way for a sweet local treat.

11pm: arrival to your accommodation and end of services for the day.

Price of this walking tour for a private group of 6 people: 113 Euros per person.

This price includes
– Personal local host from Genuine Andalusia throughout the tour (a fully licensed, knowledgeable, personable, flexible and interactive guide).
– Entrance tickets to a selected flamenco venue in Triana.
– A selection of 6 – 9 dishes to share and up to 4 drinks per person (wine, beer, refreshments or water) as well as a sweet local treat during the tapas tour.
– All taxes.

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Grand total
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The grand total of this bespoke tour program is 1950 Euros.

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Confirmation and payments
In order to confirm any of these tours we require a 25% of the grand total no later than the 1st of February 2022 via credit/debit card. The final 75% must be paid via the same method no later than 7 days prior to the start of the tour program.

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25% deposit needed no later than the 1st of February to confirm the tour program: 487,5 Euros.

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Final 75% needed no later than 7 days prior to the star of the tour program: 1462,5 Euros.

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Cancellation policy
(*) If the travel restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic didn’t allow for a tour to happen we’ll give you a full refund. Please note that the restrictions we will take as official will be the ones imposed by the corresponding government/s on the general vaccinated traveler coming to Spain from the Us and not your specific personal circumstances.
– If you cancel a tour more than 7 days prior to scheduled departure, we’ll charge the deposit only.
– If you cancel a tour between 6 and 5 days prior to scheduled departure, we’ll charge 50% of the full cost of the tour.
– If you cancel a tour between 4 and 3 days prior to scheduled departure, we’ll charge 75% of the full cost of the tour.
– If you cancel a tour 2 days or less prior to scheduled departure, we’ll charge 100% of the full cost of the tour.