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Day 1 Start Tour
Day 2 Hola Barcelona
Meet your Tour Director
Barcelona city walk
Flowers, pedestrian boulevards, and decorative pavement make Barcelona a great walking city, and your Tour Director will show you where to stroll. See the Mercat de la Boquería, where the bright colors of fruits and vegetables, spices, fresh seafood and meat -- not to mention about a hundred different types of cheese -- vie for space in the market stalls. In the city center you'll see the Monument a Colom, a towering statue of Christopher Columbus. Gaze at the city stretched out before you, the mountains in the distance, and the Mediterranean Sea at your back. Then it's on to the best walk in the city, Las Ramblas, a mile-long pedestrian street that offers up the carnival of urban Barcelona. Have your palm read or browse through the strip's famous open-air shops. Enough walking for one day? Pull up a chair, order a café con leche, and watch the parade of street performers from your seat.
, Mercat de la Boquería, Las Ramblas, Columbus Monument
Tapas dinner in Las Ramblas
Tapas purportedly originated when bartenders set a small plate ("tapa") over patrons' glasses of sherry and wine to keep the flies out. The bartenders starting piling the plate with cold cuts, olives, or salad, and the bite-size snack was born. (We're unsure how they kept the flies out of the cold-cuts... maybe that's how the sandwich was invented?) Over time these working-class snacks have become more elaborate, with each region adding its own specialties and cooking techniques to create unique tastes and combinations.
Travel to Costa Brava
In the winter, fierce winds sweep up the jagged cliffs of "The Brave Coast”. But in the summer, the winds disappear, leaving the beautiful beaches blissfully tranquil. This extreme combination has inspired artists such as Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí (a Costa Brave native). Spend two days relaxing on the beach. Feeling inspired yourself?
Day 3 Costa Brava
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Day 4 Barcelona
Excursion to Barcelona
Barcelona guided sightseeing tour
See brilliant Barcelona, a city of graceful Gothic churches, wrought-iron balconies and wide, grand avenues filled with outdoor cafés. Throughout the city, daringly innovative buildings sit side-by-side with the medieval past. A licensed, local guide will show you some of the high points of this architectural showcase. First stop: the pointy spires of the La Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family), a half-finished church complex that became the obsession of Barcelona's famously eccentric architectural genius, Antoni Gaudí. Continue to the Spanish Village, where you'll view replicas of famous buildings and sights from every region of Spain. Then step back to the past with a journey up to Montjuïc (Hill of the Jews). See the fortress built atop an ancient Jewish cemetery. Site of numerous battles to control Barcelona, this hill was also the location of the 1992 Olympics.
, See Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia, Visit Parque Güell, Montjuïc Hill
Paella dinner
Travel to Costa Brava
In the winter, fierce winds sweep up the jagged cliffs of "The Brave Coast”. But in the summer, the winds disappear, leaving the beautiful beaches blissfully tranquil. This extreme combination has inspired artists such as Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí (a Costa Brava native). Spend two days relaxing on the beach.
Day 5 Costa Brava
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Day 6 Costa Brava
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Day 7 End Tour