Discover Al-Andalus

Arrive in Madrid, settle in, and prepare for the journey south. The capital serves as the gateway — a meeting point before the route descends into the historic heart of Al-Andalus.

The road out of Madrid climbs to Toledo, the imperial city above the Tagus gorge, where Christian, Jewish, and Muslim layers sit within one walled hill. A guided day among its monuments, then the road turns into Castilla La Mancha — the Don Quijote route of windmills and fortress towns — before the descent into Córdoba.

Two days in the Umayyad capital. The Great Mosque, the old quarters, the caliphal memory. This is where the journey begins to understand what Al-Andalus was — not ruins, but a living city that still carries its foundations.

Three days in Granada, the last Muslim kingdom of the peninsula. The Alhambra, the Albaicín quarter from the mirador, and a workshop day in the city's living craft tradition — time to work with the hands, not only to look.

Up into the Sierra Nevada's southern face, where white villages are terraced into the mountainside above the Poqueira gorge. Two nights at mountain pace among Pampaneira, Bubión, and Capileira — the valleys that held out as the last Morisco stronghold, where flat roofs and water channels still carry that memory.

West over the mountain roads to Ronda — one of the places where Tariq and Musa passed through in 711–712. A guided walk through the old medina, the Arab baths, the bridge over the gorge, then the road continues down towards Seville.

Three days in the capital of Andalusia today. Guided visits in the historical center: the Alkasr Royal Palaces & Gardens, the Cathedral of Seville and the Giralda, the Torre del Oro, the Jewish quarters, the old medina and city walls, the Parque de Maria Luisa and the Plaza de España — with time for rest, leisure, and the farewell evenings of the journey.

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Eleven nights, Spain only, by road — the premium long route through the whole of Al-Andalus.

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