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4 Day Food and Wine Private Tour of Galicia
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4 Day Food and Wine Private Tour of Galicia

Juanjo leads this tour and can be adapted to your specific needs. We will visit the main wine regions of Galicia, enjoy their wines, visit their cities monuments, and hidden corners, taste the typical meals and obtain an off-the-beaten-track experience, rest in the best hotels, monasteries, old castles or manor houses. An exclusive experience hard to forget.
Solo travellers will have to pay a double occupancy fee of 600 €

Itinerary

Day 1: From Santiago to Cambados

Stop At: Bodegas del Palacio de Fefinanes, Praza Fefinans s/n, 36630, Cambados Spain
We will visit Cambados, Europan Wine Capital 2017, and one of its main and most prestigious wine cellars in the Pazo de Fefiñanes
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Bodegas Granbazan, Lugar Igrexa (a)-Tremoedo 46, 36628 Vilanova de Arousa Spain
Visit this very nice chateau style cellar where you will be able to taste their very reputed wines.
Duration: 50 minutes

Stop At: Isla de la Toja, Isla de la Toja, O Grove, Province of Pontevedra, Galicia
Visit La Toja, famous for its thermal medicinal spring waters, now a luxury resort, The Saint Caralampio church all covered with scallop shells, to after go to El Grove to embark in a catamaran that will take us to the mussel farms while we enjoy mussels and wine.
Duration: 2 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch: Seafood lunch at the Island of Arosa
• Dinner: We will visit a typical furancho. Furanchos are private homes in a typical rural environment that serve homemade wine.
Accommodation included: Parador del Albariño, Cambados.
Paradores are usually historical manor houses, castles or monasteries.

Day 2: Pontevedra - Vigo - Tuy - Valença

Stop At: Casco antiguo de Pontevedra, Casco antiguo, 36002 Pontevedra Spain
Visit Combarro a very picturesque fishing town and its (horreos) by the sea. We then go to Pontevedra, the most monumental city of Galicia after Santiago,, to the move along the coastal Portuguese Camino de Santiago to stop In Oia and have lunch with local products while overlooking by the waterfront monastery,
Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Baiona, Baiona, Province of Pontevedra, Galicia
Baiona a fishing town where the news of the new world fist arrived, with its impressive castle of Monterreal, from there we will continue through the coastal Portuguese Camino de Santiago to Oia where lunch will be taken while contemplating the Atlantic and the waterfront XII century Oya monastery.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: A Guarda, A Guarda, Province of Pontevedra, Galicia
La Guardia is the last town on the Atlantic coast neighbouring with Portugal. We will go Up to Mount Santa Tecla to see the prehistoric Celtic settlements and the stunning views of The Atlantic, Portugal and The Rosal valley.
Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Valenca, Valenca, Viana do Castelo District, Northern Portugal
After visiting Tuy and Its cathedral, we will go across the river to Portugal to visit and dine in Valença do Minho and its triple fortified walls.
Duration: 2 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch: Mercado de la Piedra, Vigo
• Dinner: Dinner a typical Portuguese meal in Valença inside the walled city.
Accommodation included: Parador de Tuy, located overlooking the Miño river and Valença in Portugal.

Day 3: Orense - Ribera Sacra

Stop At: Ourense Thermal Springs, Rua das Burgas s/n, 32005 Ourense Spain
Orense, capital of the same province and the holder of 4 of the 5 appellations of origin of Galician wines. We will visit its thermal water springs, and magnificent cathedral.
Duration: 50 minutes

Stop At: Parada de Sil, Parada de Sil, Province of Ourense, Galicia
San Pedro de Rocas a VI century is the oldest monastery in Galicia placed on top of rocs. After we will be heading to Castro Caldelas with its castle and nices views over the Ribeira Sacra.
Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Ribeira Sacra, O Bolo Spain
After lunch, we will start our decesent towards the Sil river, The Ribeira Sacra is a wine region with a long winemaking tradition with all the vineyards placed in the steepest slopes of the Sil river canyon stopping in some of the wineries in the area where we'll taste their "heroic wines". Visit some stunning viewpoints.
Duration: 2 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch: Lunch at a local restaurants with local food and wines
• Dinner: Dinner at the Parador of Monforte de Lemos
Accommodation included: Parador de Monforte de Lemos, high on a hilltop on a historic monumental fortified monastery.

Day 4: Valdeorras wine region

Stop At: Museo Casas de Munecas Monforte, Praza Estacion S/N Edificio ADIF, 27400 Monforte de Lemos Spain
The last day of our trip will take us to the Valdeorras wine region, famous for its excellent Godello and Mencia wines, we will pass by Montefurado an old Roman tunnel to divert the Sil river and obtain its gold.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Las Medulas Natural Monument, Las Medulas Spain
We will go off the road to take you the biggest Roman open-air gold mine in the world, a World Heritage site with fantastic views of the red colour mountain that remained. We will then have lunch and start heading back to Santiago
Duration: 1 hour

Meals included:
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.



Duration:4 days
Commences in:Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Country:Spain
City:Santiago de Compostela

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