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- 5 days of touring in a luxury, air-conditioned bus + 1 day
walking tour (in Seville) with local tour escort and licensed,
English- speaking local tour guides as needed
- All site entrance fees and program fees as per
itinerary
- Da'at tour educator accompanying the group from arrival to
departure
- Meals: daily breakfast & 3 dinners
- Porterage at the hotels
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| Day One: Monday DEPARTURE Overnight: Flight Day Two: Tuesday ARRIVAL IN MADRID - Arrive at Madrid International Airport.
- Transfer to the hotel on your own. (Transfers can be arranged at
additional cost.)
- 7:00 p.m. Meet your tour educator and other group members in the hotel
lobby.
- LaDa'at Focus The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry: Welcome
dinner and orientation dialogue with your tour educator at a
restaurant.
Overnight: Madrid Day Three: Wednesday EXPLORING MADRID - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Begin with a walking tour of the city, stopping at various sites,
including:
- Plaza de España, which features a monument dedicated
to Spanish novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes
Saavedra.
- A visit to the Royal Palace.
- Plaza Mayor to bear witness to the many auto-da-fé's
that took place here.
- Lunch on own, en route.
- Visit the Prado, one of the world's most renowned art
museums.
- Free time to explore the city on your own.
- Dinner on own and evening at leisure.
Overnight: Madrid Day Four: Thursday TOLEDO - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Depart for Toledo, which remains much as it was in the
16th century, and begin with a panoramic tour of the city.
- LaDa'at Focus Toledo - A City of 3 Religions
and Cultures with your tour educator.
- Guided visit to the Old City of Toledo, including the Jewish
Quarter; the Samuel Halevi Abulafia Synagogue,
which was turned into a church, known as Nuestra Señora del
Tránisito; the Sephardic Museum; and the
Santa Maria La Blanca Church (formerly the Grand Synagogue).
- Lunch on your own, en route.
- Time permitting: Visit the El Greco Museum, dedicated to
the painter and the influence his work and personality had on early
17th-century Toledo.
- Visit the Grand Toledo Cathedral.
- Return to Madrid.
- Dinner on your own and evening at leisure.
Overnight: Madrid Day Five: Friday CORDOBA - SEVILLE - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Check out of the hotel and drive to Córdoba, the capital
of the Moorish Kingdom of al-Andalus.
- LaDa'at Focus Great Jewish Figures of Cordoba
- Ibn Shaprut, Yehuda HaLevi and Maimonedes with your tour educator.
- Visit Córdoba's famous Cathedral-Mosque with its 1,000
colored columns.
- Visit the Jewish Quarter, including Plaza Tiberias and
the Yehuda Halevi Square. View the Statue of Maimonides
and visit the small Moorish-styled building known as the Maimonides
Synagogue.
- Lunch on own, en route.
- Special program at Casa de Sefarad, dedicated to the
history of the Sephardic Jews in Córdoba and Spain prior to the Inquisition
and the expulsion of 1492. Meet with the people responsible for the
creation of this private historical venture in the Jewish Quarter.
- Continue to Seville, a city shaped by both Renaissance
and Arabic influences. Ancient texts place Jews in Seville at the time of
the destruction of the first Temple (586 B.C.E.).
- Check into the hotel and prepare for Shabbat.
- Shabbat dinner.
Overnight: Seville Day Six: Saturday SHABBAT IN SEVILLE | walking
tour - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Visit the Santa Cruz neighborhood, formerly Seville's
Jewish Quarter, once known as La Juderia, with its winding alleyways and
remnants of Jewish life found within the contemporary city.
- Lunch on own.
- Free afternoon to explore Seville on your own.
- Dinner on own and evening at leisure.
Overnight: Seville Day Seven: Sunday SEVILLE - GRANADA - Breakfast at the hotel
- Check out of the hotel.
- LaDa'at Focus Christianity & Islam: A Dual
Relationship and Mutual Influences with your tour educator.
- Tour the beautiful Alcazar Palace, followed by a visit
to the Great Cathedral, the burial place of Christopher
Columbus, and La Giralda, built in the 12th century, whose
bell tower became the symbol of the city.
- Depart Seville for Granada, the last stronghold of the
Moors before it fell to Isabella and Ferdinand in 1492.
- Lunch on own, en route.
- Visit the Albaycn, the old Moorish neighborhood, with
cozy narrow streets and charming white houses full of local color (now a
UNESCO world heritage site). Guided visit to the Realejo,
the former Jewish Quarter and the site of the original town bearing the
name Garnata al-Yahud. Explore the meandering streets and
traditional neighborhood, which have no tangible remains of the Jewish
community, but a wealth of stories.
- Check into the hotel.
- Attend a Flamenco performance.
- Dinner on own.
Overnight: Granada Day Eight: Monday GRANADA - Breakfast at the hotel.
- The Kaleidoscope that is Spain: Tour of the Alhambra
Palace and Generalife Gardens.
- Lunch on own, en route.
- Free time for last-minute shopping, packing or to relax.
- Festive farewell dinner and group reflection at a
restaurant.
Overnight: Granada Day Nine: Tuesday DEPARTURE - Breakfast at the hotel.
- Check out of the hotel.
- Transfer on your own to the Granada International Airport. (Transfers can
be arranged at additional cost.)
- Departure flight to the U.S.A., arriving the same day.
| | Need to Know | - Tour rates
are per person based on double occupancy and a minimum of 15
full paying participants.
- Tour prices
are per person in U.S. dollars. All hotel accommodations,
motor coach transportation, special dinners, sightseeing,
admissions, luggage handling and the services of local
guides, drivers and the tour educator are
included.
- Hotels are
subject to confirmation. If the hotels listed cannot be
confirmed, we will use other hotels on the same level.
- Hotel
Accommodations: The tour price includes all hotel accommodations,
in hotel rooms with private baths. Our standard is to
provide the best available hotels while considering value.
Although the level of the accommodations may differ
slightly from hotel to hotel, we are committed to your comfort.
Two-bed rooms are reserved in most hotels. Triples are two-bed
rooms with a rollaway cot where available and are not
recommended when considering the comfort of those in the
room. King-size beds are not available in most hotels; what is
considered king-size usually consists of two single beds
pushed together and made up separately, but with one headboard.
Some two-bed rooms may have two twin (not full- or
queen-size) beds.
- Meals are
included as specified in the itinerary.
- Tour
Educator: All trips are conducted by our tour educators or local
guides who remain with the group throughout the
tour.
- Gratuities
included for restaurant and hotel staff only (for guides and
drivers, see below).
- Baggage: All
tour packages / group tours allow one piece of luggage per
person and one carry-on bag. Excess luggage will be subject
to a charge of up to $100 per piece. The Travel Agent
and/or Tour Operator, shall not be held responsible for
any damage to or loss of luggage/personal items. All damage/loss
must be reported at time of the incident and documented in
writing by local authorities for submission to the insurance
company. With regard to airline baggage allowance, different
carriers have different regulations for business and coach.
Please check with your individual carrier with regard to
permitted number of pieces, weights and dimensions. The tour
operator is not responsible for fees levied by any air
carrier for the transport of personal belongings of any
kind.
Not Included
- Airfare
to the tour departure point and from the tour ending point
is not included. Airfare may be purchased from us for
travel originating in the United States.
- Supplemental cost
for Bar/Bat Mitzvah ceremony (to be advised upon
request).
- Personal Expenses: All personal expenses such as laundry, valet
service, cables, telephone calls, Wi-Fi usage and postage
are not included.
- Guide
and Driver Gratuities (recommended guidelines vary based on
number of participants):
- For
a group of 15-19 passengers:
$10 per
participant per day for the Da'at tour
educator, $6 per participant per day for the local
tour escort, $5 per participant per day for the
local guide & $3 per participant per day for
the driver - For a group of 20 passengers and
more:
$8 per participant per day for
the Da'at tour educator, $6 per participant per
day for the local tour escort, $5 per
participant per day for the local guide & $3 per
participant per day for the driver
Additional Information
- Airline
Security Measures: In the U.S., you must provide
identification in the form of a passport at the time of
airport check-in for travel to international destinations.
Your passport name must match the name on your tour reservation
and airline ticket or you may be denied
boarding.
- If you
are traveling from an airport outside the jurisdiction of
the U.S., you will need to determine what travel
documentation and identification is required for that
particular airport.
- Due to
heightened security regulations, certain items such as a
metal nail file, pocketknife, cigarette lighter or tweezers,
and some liquid, gel, or aerosol items may not be
permitted in your carry-on luggage. Please call your airline
prior to departure to obtain current information on
non-permissible carry-on items and recommended airport
check-in times. You may also wish to visit the Transportation
Security Administration website at www.tsa.gov to obtain more information on
acceptable identity documentation and prohibited luggage
items.
- Holidays and Museum Closures: Museum visits and personal shopping
time may be disrupted due to unforeseen circumstances or the
many religious, state and local holidays locally observed in
the destinations being visited.
- Photography During Tours: We will occasionally use photographs taken
by fellow guests or your trip director for promotional
purposes. If you prefer that your photo not be used in any
marketing activities, please notify us at the start of your
tour.
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