67th NACDS Annual Meeting

Full day tour to Ronda and visit to a breeding farm of fighting bulls

Arrive in Ronda and meet your top local guide to begin your visit of the city. Ronda, built on an isolated ridge of the sierra, it’s split in half by a gaping river gorge, el Tajo, which drops sheer for 130 meters on three sides. The gorge is spanned by an eighteenth-century arched bridge, the Puente Nuevo with tall whitewashed houses leaning from its precipitous edges.

Visit Ronda’s beautiful monumental bullring, which it is the oldest stone bullring in Spain.

Across the bridge is the old Moorish town where you will visit one of the towns palaces, perhaps Don Bosco which is a modernist palace built at the beginning of the 20th century. It is located at the Tajo’s edge, at the heart of the historical city quarter of Ronda. It is decorated with Arab style and regional ceramics.

Continue for a visit of a breeding farm of fighting bulls (just outside of Ronda), a Unesco protected biosphere reserve. This dehesa (wooded pastureland), dotted with centenary holm oaks, serves as setting to the breeding area of the bravest of its dwellers: The Bull. During the visit your guide will point out both the bulls as well as the horses being bred on these lands… as we learn the story of this special place.

Paella Lunch

Malaga Clinic Visit

Morning walking tour for spouses and guests in the Old Quarter where we will see the cathedra and the Alcazaba, a restored Moorish fortification dating from the 8th century although much of it was built around the middle of the 11th century for King Badis of Granada and served as the palace of the governors of the city. Next to the entrance to the Alcazaba are the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre dating to the 2nd century.

Afternoon at leisure

President’s Dinner at Museo Picasso

Transfer to Grenada and check-in to Hotel AC Palacio Santa Paula for 2 nights

Walking and Tapas Tour

Time at Leisure

Dinner and Flamenco Show

Enjoy a guided visit of the Alhambra complex. The Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage site, and Spain’s single biggest attraction. This hilltop fortress-palace of the Nasrid kings, the last Muslim rulers in Spain, is the most remarkable monument to Moorish art in Spain. The harem gardens of the Generalife, the summer palace of the Sultans, are lush and vibrant.

Lunch overlooking the Alhambra

Afternoon and evening at leisure

Grenada Clinic Visit

Transfer to Sevilla with lunch enroute

Check-in to Hotel Alfonso XIII for 3 nights

Walking tour of Andalusia’s capital. Begin with a visit to the Reales Alcázares (Royal Palace) which is one of the purest and greatest examples of Mudejar (Christian-Muslim) architecture containing Moorish, Gothic and Renaissance elements.

Afterwards visit the magnificent Cathedral. Seville’s Cathedral rises up on the site of the great twelfth century mosque that nowadays only retains its minaret, known as the Giralda. Finish your tour with a stroll through the Barrio de Santa Cruz which was the old Jewish Quarter.

Dinner

Sevilla Clinic Visit

Day at leisure to explore and enjoy Sevilla

Arrive in Cordoba for a visit the incredible Mosque-turned-Cathedral. Then continue your walking tour in one of the most important Jewish quarters in Spain, between the walls of the city and the Mosque. The Almodovar Gate leads to the old Jewish quarter with it narrow, serpentine alleys.

Farewell Dinner

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