Allendale Columbia's Spain Trip, Spring Break, 2017
Itinerary *
Days 1 - 2
• Board your overnight flight to Spain and arrive in Sevilla on the following day • Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader at Sevilla's airport and transfer to the city • Meet host families. During the homestay program, breakfast and dinner will be with the host family. Box lunch will be prepared by family daily. Day 5
• Visit a traditional farmers market, located on the remains of an ancient castle • Spanish tapas cooking workshop • Stroll along the historic banks of the Guadalquivir river, followed by a sightseeing river cruise, admiring the city’s monuments from a different perspective • Have some time to explore Sevilla's historic city center at your leisure • Return to host families Day 8
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader
• Say good-bye to your host family and travel to Aracena State Park. • Check in at your cabins in the mountains • Visit local organic farm for your first day of activities. Learn about sustainable farming and environmental protection through a series of fun group activities. • Visit free roaming Iberian pigs in their natural habitat • Spend some time at the farm at your leisure before dinner • Back to accommodations in the evening |
Day 3
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader • Visit and and attend classes at a local school. You will meet with your Spanish buddy, accompanying them in their classes • Have some time to explore Sevilla's historic city center at your leisure • Visit the Museum of Flamenco and then attend a live performance on site • Return to host families after the show Day 6
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader
• Board bus and travel to Doñana National Park • Explore this UNESCO World Heritage natural reserve, visit its lagoons, woodlands, marshlands and sand dunes. • Return to host families Day 9
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader
• Second day of activities at the farm • Engage in hands-on culinary activities at the farm: picking vegetables from the garden, cheese making, baking local pastries and bread. • In the early evening, visit Gruta de las Maravillas (Cave of Marvels), a spectacular natural landmark. Explore chambers of stalagmites and stalactites, limestone ceilings and interior lakes. • Have some free time to enjoy a stroll along the streets of the village or to do some shopping • Back to the cabins for a closing group activity |
Day 4
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader • After lunch, you will have a sightseeing tour that includes Sevilla’s cathedral, the Alcazar (Europe’s oldest active royal palace), and Santa Cruz historic Jewish quarter. • Free time to stroll through the historic city center and do some shopping • Return to host families in the evening Day 7
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader • Board bus and travel to Cordoba. The students will visit the Mezquita, an impressive 10th-century mosque, famous for its red and white candy cane style arches, that curiously houses a 16th-century Renaissance cathedral. They will explore the historic Jewish quarter, which has been preserved for centuries, and visit one of three original synagogues remaining in Spain. Day 10
• Meet your Tour Director and Team Leader
• Transfer to Sevilla airport • Board your flight back home |
Other day trips / options
Portugal
Day trip to Lagos, a beautiful beach town 2 hours away from Sevilla.
Mountains Day Camp
Spend a day at a youth day camp in the mountains near Aracena. Your students will engage in fun outdoors activities, such as orienteering, raft-building and archery
Muelle de las Carabelas Wharf of the Caravels
Its most prominent exhibits are replicas of Christopher Columbus's boats for his first voyage to the Americas, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María. These were built in 1992 for the Celebration of the Fifth Centenary of the Discovery of America. The replica caravels were built between 1990 and 1992, put through shakedown voyages and then, in 1992, sailed the route of Columbus's voyage. Visitors can board the replicas and learn about life during the trips to America. At the interpretative center on site, students can visit, through rotating modules, an exhibit about 15th century society and numerous exhibits related to Columbus's voyage of discovery: replicas of maps, arms, treaties such as the Tratado de Tordesillas and the Treaty of Alcáçovas.[8] The upper part of the building holds an exhibit of Pre-Columbian art. After visiting this outdoor museum, the students will go on a camelback ride and spend some time at the local beach.
Animal Rescue Center
Visit an animal rescue center near Doñana National Park, an important migrating birds hub. At this center, the students will learn about environmental protection and about migrating birds in particular. There may be an opportunity for the students to collaborate with this center with one of their daily routines.
Day trip to Lagos, a beautiful beach town 2 hours away from Sevilla.
Mountains Day Camp
Spend a day at a youth day camp in the mountains near Aracena. Your students will engage in fun outdoors activities, such as orienteering, raft-building and archery
Muelle de las Carabelas Wharf of the Caravels
Its most prominent exhibits are replicas of Christopher Columbus's boats for his first voyage to the Americas, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María. These were built in 1992 for the Celebration of the Fifth Centenary of the Discovery of America. The replica caravels were built between 1990 and 1992, put through shakedown voyages and then, in 1992, sailed the route of Columbus's voyage. Visitors can board the replicas and learn about life during the trips to America. At the interpretative center on site, students can visit, through rotating modules, an exhibit about 15th century society and numerous exhibits related to Columbus's voyage of discovery: replicas of maps, arms, treaties such as the Tratado de Tordesillas and the Treaty of Alcáçovas.[8] The upper part of the building holds an exhibit of Pre-Columbian art. After visiting this outdoor museum, the students will go on a camelback ride and spend some time at the local beach.
Animal Rescue Center
Visit an animal rescue center near Doñana National Park, an important migrating birds hub. At this center, the students will learn about environmental protection and about migrating birds in particular. There may be an opportunity for the students to collaborate with this center with one of their daily routines.
* suggested itinerary, subject to change.
