Luxury holidays in Spain
Drive through the white villages of Andalucía and dine in Seville long after nine. Tell us how you like to travel, and we plan the drivers, guides and hotels around it.
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Spain asks you to give up on early dinners. Lunch runs long, the afternoon is for a siesta or a shaded courtyard, and the streets fill again once the heat lifts. Settle into that rhythm and the country opens up, over tapas in a Seville bar or flamenco in a small Triana tablao.
Andalucía holds the Moorish heart of the country, with the Alhambra above Granada, the great mosque-cathedral of Córdoba and Seville's Alcázar a few hours apart. Madrid has the Prado and grand plazas, and the north brings green hills and the pintxos bars of San Sebastián. A car gives you the white villages and Ronda's gorge on your own schedule.
Spain
8 days · 7 nights
Málaga → Granada → Córdoba → Seville → Málaga
Collect your car at Málaga airport and drive a loop through the great cities of Andalusia: two nights in Granada for the Alhambra and the Albaicín, a night in Córdoba, then two in Seville. The drive back to the coast can take in Jerez on the way.
Spain
6 days · 5 nights
Seville → Granada → Seville
A compact loop from Seville airport: two nights in Seville for the Alcázar and the cathedral, a day in Córdoba on the drive east, two nights in Granada for the Alhambra and the Albaicín, then a last night back in Seville.
Spain
6 days · 5 nights
Madrid → Salamanca → Cáceres → Madrid
Collect your car in Madrid and head west to the university city of Salamanca, then south into Extremadura for two nights near Cáceres. A day trip along the old Silver Way reaches Roman Mérida before you drive back to Madrid for a last night among its galleries.
Spain
8 days · 7 nights
Seville → Jerez de la Frontera → Ronda → Granada → Córdoba → Seville
A week-long loop from Seville airport that adds the countryside to the cities: through the white villages to Jerez, inland to Ronda on its gorge, then two nights in Granada and one in Córdoba before a last night in Seville.
Spain
8 days · 7 nights
Costa del Sol → Seville → Lisbon → Huelva → Costa del Sol
Pick up your car on the Costa del Sol and drive by way of Ronda to two nights in Seville. Cross into Portugal through Évora for two nights in Lisbon, then return along the coast to Huelva and the Costa del Sol for your last night.
Portugal
6 days · 5 nights
Madrid → Porto → Fátima → Lisbon → Madrid
A guided coach journey that leaves Madrid for two nights in Porto, with a river cruise and a port cellar tasting, then a night at Fátima after Coimbra. Two nights in Lisbon follow a day among the monasteries and fishing towns of the coast, and the drive back to Madrid stops at Roman Mérida.
Spain
10 days · 9 nights
Madrid → El Escorial → Cuenca → Valencia → Palma → Sóller
You start with three nights in Madrid for the Royal Collections Gallery, a tapas walk and El Escorial. The hanging houses of Cuenca lead to Valencia, its cathedral and a paella class at a rice farm across the Albufera Lagoon. You fly to Mallorca for Palma, Sóller and a final day of your choosing.
Spain
3 days · 2 nights
Madrid
A short stay in the Spanish capital with the logistics taken care of: a transfer to your hotel on arrival, a full day on the hop-on hop-off bus to see the city, a flamenco show that evening, and a free morning before your transfer back to the airport.
Spain
7 days · 6 nights
Madrid → Córdoba → Granada → Seville
Two nights in Madrid for its palace and galleries, then the drive south to Córdoba and its Great Mosque, a night in Granada for the Alhambra and the Albaicín, and two nights in Seville. The car is returned at Seville airport, so there is no drive back.
Spain
2 days · 1 night
Seville → Osuna → Seville
A short break an hour from Seville: arrive in Osuna in time to wander its noble streets, spend the night, then join a local guide for a four-hour morning through the carved quarry known as the Andalusian Petra and the town’s monumental centre.
Portugal
11 days · 10 nights
Faro → Lagos → Grândola → Évora → Cáceres → Seville → Tavira → Faro
Collect your car at Faro and follow the Algarve coast west to Lagos and Cape St Vincent, then north up the Vicentine Coast into the Alentejo and on to Évora. Cross into Spain for Roman Mérida and Cáceres, settle into Seville for three nights, and return to the Algarve by way of Huelva and Tavira.
Guided moments in Spain's cities and wine country, arranged around your days.
Learn the basics of Seville's own dance with a teacher who covers its three parts: the dance, the song and the guitar.
Drive into the Rioja Alta to visit cellars in Haro and the hill villages around them, tasting the reds the region is known for.
Walk the hilltop city south of Madrid, once the Visigothic capital, and see El Greco's Burial of the Count of Orgaz in Santo Tomé.
Visit the museum in Getaria, the designer's home town, to see Cristóbal Balenciaga's finest pieces and how they were made.
Tour Casa Vicens, Gaudí's first major work, with its green and white tiles, painted ceilings and garden, now a UNESCO-listed museum.
Ride an easy route past the Royal Palace, the opera house and Plaza de Oriente's statues of kings to the 17th-century Plaza Mayor.
Visit three local favourites with a guide and learn how Granada's free-tapas tradition works, plate by plate.
The south is about Moorish palaces and heat, and the north is about food and Atlantic coastline.
The cathedral and Giralda tower, the Alcázar's gardens and flamenco in the Santa Cruz quarter, the city most of our trips return to.
The Moorish palaces of the Alhambra above the city, with the white Albaicín quarter facing it across the valley.
The great Mezquita with its forest of arches, flower-filled patios and the Roman bridge over the Guadalquivir.
The Prado and the Royal Palace, wide boulevards and late dinners, with Toledo and Segovia a short train ride away.
Ronda's bridge over its gorge, the white villages of the hills and the beaches and old town of Málaga below.
Golden sandstone university buildings in Salamanca and the walled medieval old town of Cáceres in Extremadura.
Spain suits self-drive and small group touring, with city breaks, expedition cruises and a private jet journey for something different.
See Seville, Córdoba and Granada with a small group and a guide who brings the Moorish past alive.
Drive Andalucía's white villages and Ronda's gorge at your own pace, with hotels booked ahead.
Sail Spain's coasts and islands, with Mallorca and Barcelona seen from the deck.
Seville's Easter week and April Fair book out early, so we secure hotels months ahead.
Mild and sunny in Seville and Málaga, cold nights in Madrid and Granada.
Almond blossom in the south and quiet days at the Alhambra.
Spring in Andalusia, orange blossom scenting the streets of Seville.
Holy Week processions and the Seville Fair, book early for both.
Córdoba's patio festival and warm, clear days across the south.
Hot afternoons inland, the Costa del Sol warm and lively.
Seville and Córdoba are very hot, the north coast is cooler.
Peak heat in Andalusia, many Spanish on holiday at the coast.
Warm seas, the sherry harvest in Jerez and softer heat inland.
Golden light, comfortable driving days and quieter sites.
Mild in the south, a calm time for Granada and Seville.
Christmas lights in Madrid and Seville, cool nights inland.
Expect one connection on the way, then a fast train or a short flight south to Seville.
Lisbon makes a natural last stop, and Morocco is a short flight or ferry across the strait.
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