Payment of bespoke tour program of Andalusia. 26th – 30th of November 2021. 3pax
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Description and schedule of services
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Friday the 26th of November. Seville most iconic World Heritage Sites and quarter of Santa Cruz. Walking tour
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9:30am: be met by your personal local guide at the door of Hotel Doña María 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.
1pm: after your tour, you may want to be escorted back to your hotel or be given some orientation to enjoy lunch at leisure.
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Price of this private walking tour for a group of 3 people: 115 Euros per person
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This price includes
– Personal local host from Genuine Andalusia throughout the tour.
– All entrance tickets and admissions.
– All taxes.
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Saturday the 27th of November. Seville flamenco and tapas walking tour
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6:30pm: meet your personal local host at the door your accommodation in Calle San Vicente to start a guided walk towards a selected flamenco venue, 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 hotel and end of services for the day.
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Price of this private walking tour for a group of 3 people: 167 Euros per person
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This price includes
– Personal local host from Genuine Andalusia throughout the tour.
– Tickets for a selected flamenco performance in Seville old town.
– A selection of 6 – 9 local dishes to share and up to 4 drinks per person during the tapas part of the tour (beer, wine, refreshments, water).
– All taxes.
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Monday the 29th of November. Jerez old town for food and wine lovers. Walking tour
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9:30am: meet your personal local host at the lobby of your hotel (Casa Palacio María Luisa) to start a private walking tour of the old town with a special focus on its Hispanic-Muslim origins and on the transformations that it experienced (architecture, urban-planning, social composition and overall character) with the Christian conquest in the 13th century and later in the 18th and 19th centuries when the local wines (sherries) became probably the most fashionable drinks in the world. Your tour will also include a private visit to the local market in order to learn about the ingredients that shape the local gastronomy and also about how Jerez has been able to preserve such an important resource for its local community.
11:15am: end of your introductory walking tour in a selected sherry bodega and private visit aimed at learning about the ageing process of the different types of sherry. This will be followed by the corresponding tastings of Sherry and by some basic notions about the art of pairing food and sherry.
12:45pm: end of the visit to the sherry bodega and short walk to a selected sherry and tapas bar.
1pm: arrival to the sherry and tapas bar and tapas and sherries lunch there. Further notions about the art of pairing food and sherry will be given through a pairing lunch including a selection of 5 – 8 dishes to share and up to 4 sherries per person.
2:45pm: end of lunch and walk back to your hotel.
3pm: arrival to your hotel and end of services for the day.
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Price of this private walking tour for a group of 3 people: 197 Euros per person
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This price includes
– Personal local host from Genuine Andalusia throughout the tour.
– Private visit to a selected sherry bodega with the corresponding sherry tastings there.
– A selection of 5 – 8 local dishes to share and up to 4 drinks per person during the tapas part of the tour (beer, wine, refreshments, water).
– All taxes.
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Tuesday the 30th of November. Culture and gastronomy walking tour of Cadiz old town
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9:30am: meet your personal local host at the outdoor car park of Cadiz train station to start a private walking tour of the inner parts of the old town with a special focus on the foundation of the city by the Phoenicians 3000 years ago on the period when the city held the monopoly of all trade with America. You will start this tour seeing incredibly well preserved evidences of the Phoenician past of the city. This will allow you to understand who the Phoenicians were, where they came from, why the based themselves in Cadiz 3000 years ago and the impact that their arrival had in the present history, culture, gastronomy and wines of Southern Spain.
Later, you will travel forward in time to the 18th century, when the city held the monopoly of all trade with the Americas, formerly established in Seville. The bourgeoisie that settled down in Cádiz in this period transformed the city completely into a refined and cosmopolitan colonial hub. These new inhabitants of the city brought to Cádiz not only gold, silver, mahogany and other precious materials but also new ideas that transformed the mentality of the city and later of the whole of Spain. Along this second part of the tour you will visit some selected buildings that will reveal the wealth, refinement and change of mentality that the city enjoyed in this colonial period.
11:45pm: end of your introductory walking tour in the local market of Cádiz. Explanations about the ingredients that shape the local gastronomy of Cádiz and also about the important role that the market plays in the social fabric of the city. This will be followed by some tastings of selected local produce in hand-picked stalls.
12:30pm: end of your tour of the market and small walk to a selected local tavern to learn about the famous fortified wines that traveled from Cádiz to América. Tasting of selected local fortified wines there.
1pm: end of the wine tasting and short walk to a selected family-owned and family-run tapas bar.
1:15pm: arrival to the tapas bar and tapas and wines lunch there including a selection of 6 – 9 dishes to share and up to 3 wines per person.
2:45pm: end of lunch and rest of the day at leisure. Alternatively, you may want to be escorted back to where you parked your car.
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Price of this private walking tour for a group of 3 people: 182 Euros per person
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This price includes
– Personal local host from Genuine Andalusia throughout the tour.
– Tastings of selected local produce in the local market of Cádiz.
– Wine tasting in a selected local tavern.
– A selection of 6 – 9 local dishes to share and up to 3 drinks per person during the tapas part of the tour (beer, wine, refreshments, water).
– All taxes.
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Pricing of the whole tour program
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The price of this bespoke tour program for a private group of 3 people is 1983 Euros in total.
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Confirmation and payments
In order to confirm this tour program we require a 30% deposit of the grand total (594,9 Euros) no later than the 6th of November 2021 via credit/debit card. The remaining 70% (1388,1 Euros) must be paid no later than 7 days prior to the start of the tour program.
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30% deposit of the grand total to be paid no later than the 6th of November 2021: 594,9 Euros.
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Final 70% to be paid no later than 7 days prior to the start of the tour program: 1388,1 Euros
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Cancellation policy
– If you cancelled your tour program more than 7 days prior to its start: we’d charge the 30% deposit only.
– If you cancelled your tour program between 7 and 5 days prior to its start: we’d charge 50% of the full cost of the tour program.
– If you cancelled your tour program between 4 and 3 days prior to its start: we’d charge 75% of the full cost of the tour program.
– If you cancelled your tour program 2 days or less prior to its start: we’d charge 100% of the full cost of the tour program.
*If the travel restrictions related to the pandemic didn’t allow for the tour program to happen, we’d give you a full refund.
**Please note that the travel restrictions we would take as official would be the ones imposed by the corresponding government/s for the general vaccinated traveler coming to Spain from your country of origin and not your specific personal circumstances.
