Departure and a day on the road

Departure from Torrevieja at 07:00. A day of travel with short stops where you can grab a snack (at your own expense). In the evening, arrival at the hotel, check-in and dinner.

Vigo – Cambados – O Salnés valley

Vigo

Breakfast at the hotel and departure for Vigo, one of the main cities of southern Galicia: relatively young, cosmopolitan and industrial. The Del Castro viewpoint offers a panorama of the city and port, a great spot for photos. Then back to the hotel for lunch.

Cambados and Albariño wine

After lunch, the picturesque O Salnés valley and the town of Cambados, rich in architectural heritage and home of the famous Albariño wine. A tasting takes place at the Rías Baixas winery (included in the tour price), and you can buy wine there too. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

A Coruña: optional excursion

A city on a peninsula between two bays: one holds the port, the other the Orzán and Riazor beaches. María Pita Square, the city hall, the Méndez Núñez gardens and the Tower of Hercules, the oldest working lighthouse in the world and a World Heritage Site since 2009. You can drop into one of the museums: the archaeological and history museum in San Antón Castle, or the clock museum.

The optional excursion costs €50. If you'd rather not go, you can explore the town where your hotel is located.

O Grove, La Toja, Pontevedra, Combarro

O Grove

Breakfast at the hotel, then the morning in O Grove, known as the seafood capital. If you wish, you can take a cruise on a tourist boat around the Ría de Arousa to see how mussels, oysters and scallops are grown. On board, there's a tasting of mussels and Albariño wine. The boat trip is extra: €18 per person.

La Toja island

A picturesque early twentieth-century bridge links the O Grove peninsula to La Toja island, perfect for stunning photos. Back to the hotel for lunch.

Pontevedra

Legend has it the city was founded by Teucer, a hero of the Trojan War. Today Pontevedra is one of the richest towns in Galicia for Romanesque heritage. We'll see the eighteenth-century Peregrina church, almost round in shape, with a Baroque façade and neoclassical touches, the fourteenth-to-fifteenth-century church of San Francisco and the sixteenth-century basilica of Santa María.

Combarro

A fishing village with historic Galician hórreo granaries: there are around 30 of them here, and they are protected as architectural monuments. Beside the houses stand stone crucifixes, the cruceiros, placed to ward off evil spirits; the oldest dates from 1727. And a lovely view of the port. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Santiago de Compostela

Breakfast and a full-day excursion to Santiago de Compostela. People come here from all over the world to walk the Way of St James, touch holy places and reflect on life. It's the place Paulo Coelho wrote about in his book. The city is full of architectural masterpieces, and its cathedral of the same name was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.

A walk to the ocean

In the afternoon, a walk to the ocean: the untamed spirit of the elements and the most romantic photos. There's no time to get back to the hotel for lunch: you'll be given a light snack to take along, though many prefer to have lunch at their own expense in a café in Santiago, and there will be free time for that.

Return

Breakfast at the hotel and departure. Short stops along the way where you can grab a snack (at your own expense). Back in Torrevieja at 22:00.