Region · Spain · 6 tours
In Andalusia, Spain's Islamic, Jewish and Christian centuries sit close together, often inside the same building. In Córdoba a cathedral grows through the middle of the great mosque. In Seville a Christian king built his palace in Islamic splendor. In Granada the Albaicín was the first capital, walled by the Zirid kings two centuries before the Alhambra palace across the valley was begun.
The Seville tour follows the money the American trade brought up its river. In Ronda the route goes down the cliff the way its water came up. The Cádiz tour crosses an island city that has spent almost three thousand years changing what its walls were for, and the Málaga tour looks at the buildings that survived by changing jobs.
Each tour takes about 125 to 150 minutes over 10 to 12 stops. Stop 1 of every tour is free to hear before you buy.
Andalusia, Spain
Seville is an inland river port where, for over two centuries, the Crown registered every cargo of the American trade — and the city is what that monopoly built, then left behind.
11 stops · 2.9 km (1.8 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Around the year 950, Córdoba was the seat of a caliphate that built itself to rival Constantinople, Damascus and Baghdad — and then tore itself apart within a lifetime.
11 stops · 3.2 km (2 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Everyone climbs the Albaicín to look at the Alhambra.
12 stops · 2.9 km (1.8 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Ronda sits on the flat top of a rock, and for most of its history its water was a hundred metres below.
11 stops · 2.7 km (1.7 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Cádiz began as Gadir — an enclosure on a small Atlantic island — and has spent almost three thousand years changing what its walls were for.
11 stops · 3.2 km (2 mi) · about 150 min
Andalusia, Spain
Málaga's centre is full of structures that survived by changing jobs.
10 stops · 2.3 km (1.4 mi) · about 125 min