Excursion to Barcelona

Meeting at the Airport for the Excursion to Barcelona. Flight from Athens to Barcelona. Arrival and first introduction to the city through a panoramic ride on our bus. We start from Montjuic and the Olympic Stadium and make a stop to enjoy an amazing panoramic view over the city, at MNAC. Then we pass by Plaza España, the Gran Via and the famous Passeig de Gracia with the Square of Discord where Gaudi's Casa Batlló is located and a little further up we will also see the same architect's Casa Milá. We then head to visit Gaudi's Park Güell designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. After the visit, we continue towards the Olympic Port and Barceloneta where Port Vell is located, today's marina for luxury yachts. Arrival at the hotel and check-in. Afternoon free.

After breakfast at the hotel, departure for today's tour. Today we will visit two typical examples of Catalan Modernism from its two main exponents, Both UNESCO World Heritage Sites. We will start first with the Hospital de la Santa creu i Sant Pau by Lluís Domènech i Montaner, the largest complex of Catalan modernist buildings which until a few years ago continued to function as a hospital and is now undergoing renovation with most of the buildings already renovated.
Then on foot and through Gaudi Avenue we will end up visiting Gaudi's masterpiece, which is still under construction but at the same time functions as a temple and can be visited, the Sagrada Familia.
Return to the hotel and free afternoon.

Breakfast and we start for Figueres, the birthplace of the great Catalan painter! After a beautiful ride almost 2 hours, crossing pine and white forests, we reach the theater museum of the eccentric painter Salvador Dali. The most visited museum in Catalonia and the third in the whole of Spain contains the largest collection of Dali works in the world! In a dream building we will admire paintings from the first years of his life until his death! Leaving the museum also enjoy the permanent jewelry exhibition consisting of 37 unique jewelry designed by the multi-talented painter! After a coffee in the historic center of Figueres departure for the city of Girona where we will admire the Panagia Cathedral and walk through the Jewish quarter of Coll, one of the best preserved in Europe, where the Sephardim lived, the Jews of Spain until the 1492! Girona with its river Oniar and the beautiful painted houses on the banks of the river reminiscent of Florence! Return to Barcelona. For the evening, we suggest you watch Flamenco in its homeland and indulge in its intense and passionate rhythm!