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5 Day Spain Arts Tour
offered by supplier M19330 (view this supplier profile)
Key Information:
Tour Duration: 5
day(s)
Group Size: 2
- 12
people
Destination(s):
Spain
Specialty Categories:
Cultural Journey
Season: January - December
Airfare Included: No
Tour Customizable: Yes
Minimum Per Person Price: 1300 Canadian Dollar (CAD)
Maximum Per Person Price: 1300 Canadian Dollar (CAD)
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Your Itinerary:
Day 1: We arrive in Barcelona and settle into our hotel close to the Gothic Quarter. Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain and it's most vibrant. Tapas bars, clubs, and wine bars are abundant and the night starts later than in most of Spain.
Day 2: After breakfast we start by walking along the waterfront to the imposing column devoted known as Colomb or in English Christopher Columbus. Close by is the Barri Gotic, the old Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, with some buildings dating to Roman times. We wander the ancient streets, visit the Catedral de la Santa Creu i Santa Eulalia, the main Gothic cathedral in Barcelona and one of the more important Picasso museums. If we have time afterwards we will tour the Basilica de Santa Maria del Mar. We will walk north-west so that we can see the gaudy Arc de Triomf and the Torre Agbar, a modern building that resembles a huge pickle.
The rest of the afternoon is spent visiting the main sites where we can find Gaudi architecture. Antoni Gaudi, the architect of fantastic buildings, is the man most closely associated with Barcelona. Like his contemporaries who painted surrealism, Gaudi defied conformity, and we will find most of his architecture in Barcelona's Golden Square where Barcelona's best Modernista buildings can be found. We will search out his Casa Mila and Casa Batlo in the Passeig de Gracia district. The roofs of both buildings resemble dripping wax. The final stop for the day will be the Sagrada Familia, universally famous, a cathedral started by Gaudi, but still unfinished. We'll have dinner in a tapas bar and perhaps a glass of Cava, the Spanish champagne grown and bottled south of the city.
Day 3: We spend the morning in the Parc Guella, a housing project started at the beginning of the last century by Gaudi. It is massive, with a great number of stylistic Gaudi works: a sea serpent, colonnaded pathways, bird nests, a roadway like an aqueduct. It will take the morning for us to see the park. Before we leave Barcelona we will tour the Fundacio Miro (Miro Museum). In the afternoon we drive along the Costa Brava, to the first city in what is known as the "Dalinian Triangle", Girona. The House-Museum Gala Dali Castle is dedicated to Dali's wife. A medieval building Dali restored to serve as a refuge for his wife, which in time became her mausoleum, it is now open to the public. It is typically Dali, with waves, squiggles, slanting floors, elongated shapes, in which the senses seem to fall away. We continue on to Figueres where we spend the night.
Day 4: We begin this morning by touring the Teatre-Museu Dali (Dali-Theater Museum) in Figueres. It is pure theater of the absurd. Art as effect and the entire museum is the statement. For instance Dali has put a Cadillac out for display - put a coin in the machine and it begins to rain inside the car. Gala's butt cheeks become face cheeks. The Mae West room is furniture placed in such a way that visitors looking from above will instantly see the face of the Hollywood actor. In the afternoon we tour a second Dali museum in Figueres, the Dali-Jewels. In this museum we will find some Dali drawings and paintings of jewelry and a number of jewelry pieces put together by Dali. We stay the night in Figueres.
Day 5: This morning we travel to Cadaque, on the Cap de Creus, one of the most beautiful places on earth. It is the last stop before the French border, and we descend to the water along snaking road, past olive groves. The wind, the Traumatano, blows hard against the coast and its wavy nature found its way into the art of Miro, Dali and Picasso. Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d' Avignon at Cadaque. In Cadaques itself we will tour the Perrot-Moore Museum, which houses Spanish and French masters from the 18thC to the present and then the Museum of Contemporary Art that has works of Dali and Picasso. In the afternoon we visit the Casa Museu Salvador Dali (Salvador Dali House) where Dali lived when in Spain and where he was most productive. Once again the whole is representative of who Dali was as an artist. Dali was a man with a fertile imagination, who had a unique way of seeing the world, and produced art from everyday objects. In the afternoon we will have free time to explore Cadaque. Of particular interest is the cathedral with its beautiful Baroque.
Member discount:
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Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Price Includes:
- 4 star hotel
- Transportation
- Guide
- Museum fees.
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