Travel to Santiago like the Kings and Bishops of the Middle Ages:
Sleep in convents and palaces, dine like Royalty.

Sample tour
14 days / 13 nights • (Dates by arrangement)

For 1100 years, pilgrims have taken up staff, gourd and cockleshell for the journey to Santiago de Compostela. Now you can follow in their sandaled footsteps, to one of the last great places. This tour features comfortable transportation and exceptional accommodation in historic hotels, paradors, palaces, and convents. Meals feature fine regional cuisine and select Spanish wines.

Saturday
MADRID • SIGÜENZA
Pick up Madrid airport; El Cid's Spain; the plains of Castile.
Overnight: Parador Sigüenza D

Sunday to Tuesday SIGÜENZA • LEYRE • UJUÉ • RONCESVALLES • PAMPLONA • OLITE
The Province of Navarre-a patchwork of cornfields, pastures, vineyards; Gregorian chant in an ancient monastery; 100-mile Pyrenean views; Hemingway's Pamplona, the Pilgrim's Way.
Overnight: Parador Olite B L/D

Wednesday to Thursday
OLITE • ESTELLA • HARO • SANTO DOMINGO
Arches and pillars, wineries and vineyards; Estella's Romanesque treasures; Irache's wine on tap; Haro, wine capital of La Rioja; Santo Domingo's famous cockerel.
Overnight: Parador Santo Domingo B L/D

Friday
LAGUARDÍA • BURGOS
Burgos, birthplace of El Cid; medieval Spain's stone treasures.
Overnight: Palacio la Merced B L/D

Saturday
BURGOS • LEÓN
León's Cathedral of glass and Inn of the Suckling Lamb.
Overnight: Parador San Marcos B L D

Sunday
LEÓN • VILLAFRANCA
DEL BIERZO
Palace of the Knights Templar; sweet peppers, rich cakes, Bierzo wines, Door of Forgiveness.
Overnight: Parador Villafranca B L D

Monday to Tuesday
VILLAFRANCA • CEBREIRO • BAIONA
Cebreiro, highest pass of the Camino-Celtic huts and a 9th century church with relics of a miracle; Baiona's fortress hotel on the Atlantic, where Columbus' Captain Pinzón landed in 1493; the Arousa peninsula-golden beaches, ancient Celtic shrine sites, fishing villages festooned with drying nets.
Overnight: Parador Baiona B L D

Wednesday to Thursday
BAIONA • SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Santiago, the Holy City—a World Heritage Site, in spirit part Spanish, part Celtic, and one of Spain's loveliest towns.
Overnight: Hotel Los Abetos B L D

Friday
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA • USA
After breakfast transfer to Santiago airport for return to Madrid. B

INCLUDED: Hotels or similar based on double occupancy, with buffet breakfast Daily lunch or dinner, sampling fine regional cuisine and select Spanish wines Fully escorted tour with English-speaking guide All admissions and gratuities All land transfers, including airport transfers Flight, Santiago to Madrid Porters Pre-trip information PRICE: Varies with date and group size. Contact us with your requirements for a customized bid.