Day 1 · Madrid
Arrive in Madrid
Collect your hire car at Madrid airport and drive to your hotel. The rest of the day is free for the city’s boulevards, parks and plazas.
7 days · 6 nights
From the capital’s galleries to the Moorish south, one city at a time.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesTwo 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.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Madrid
Day 1 · Madrid
Collect your hire car at Madrid airport and drive to your hotel. The rest of the day is free for the city’s boulevards, parks and plazas.
Day 2 · Madrid
See the Paseo de la Castellana, Plaza de Cibeles and the Gran Vía, then visit the Royal Palace, the largest in Europe, with works by Caravaggio, Velázquez and Goya on its walls and the Almudena Cathedral and Campo del Moro gardens beside it. In the afternoon, the Reina Sofía holds Miró, Dalí, Gris and Picasso’s Guernica.
Córdoba
Day 3 · Córdoba
Drive south into Andalusia to Córdoba, once capital of the caliphate of Al-Andalus, and settle in for the evening near the old town.
Córdoba and Granada
Day 4 · Córdoba and Granada
Spend the morning in the Great Mosque, now the cathedral, among hundreds of marble columns and two-tone arches, then the Patio of the Orange Trees. Walk the flower-filled lanes of the old town to the former synagogue before driving on to Granada.
Granada and Seville
Day 5 · Granada and Seville
Visit the Alhambra on Sabika hill, seat of the last Moorish emirs in Spain, then cross the Darro ravine to the lanes of the Albaicín and their lookouts towards the Sierra Nevada. In the afternoon, drive on to Seville.
Seville
Day 6 · Seville
Explore the Royal Alcázar, a palace begun in the 10th century and added to in every style since, and the cathedral beneath the Giralda. Wander Santa Cruz, the former Jewish quarter, then cross to María Luisa Park for the tiles and canals of Plaza de España and the palaces around Plaza de América.
Day 7 · Seville
Breakfast, then drive to Seville airport to return the car before your flight.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Madrid · 2 nights
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Córdoba · 1 night
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Granada · 1 night
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Seville · 2 nights
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Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
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.
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.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
Other ways to see Spain, closest in length first.
Self-drive | 8 days | Málaga · Granada · Seville
Self-drive | 8 days | Seville · Jerez de la Frontera · Córdoba
Self-drive | 6 days | Madrid · Salamanca · Cáceres
Self-drive | 6 days | Seville · Granada
