Excursion to Toledo, El Escorial and Valley of the Fallen

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SCHEDULE	Check availability and schedules on the calendar. Departures: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday TIME: 09:00 hrs NOT OPERATING: December 24, 25, 31 and January 1, 5 and 6
PRESENTATION	Enjoy a panoramic bus tour and a guided walk in Toledo, a World Heritage city Learn the history of the Kings of Spain Enjoy the Monastery of El Escorial, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO Admire the enormous Basilica of El Valle de los Caidos
DURATION	11 hrs
MEETING
RELEASE
CANCELATION
CLOSING SALES
LANGUAGE	Spanish and English bilingual tour

Highights

We begin the Excursion to Toledo from Madrid on a bus with all the comforts accompanied by our guide ;a bilingual. Upon arriving at the imperial city of Toledo we will enter the interior of its wall accompanied by an expert local guide who will lead us through the city. through the city through its history and legends, with explanatory stops at its main monuments and places of interest such as the grandiose Toledo Cathedral or the Jewish Quarter >, a valuable cultural treasure in the form of a labyrinth made up of streets, alleys, walkways and sheds, etc.
We continue our journey towards El Escorial and its imposing Royal Monastery declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, as well as the such as the monumental complex of the Valley of the Fallen located a few kilometers away, in another beautiful enclave of the Madrid mountains.
We begin the tour to El Escorial with the guided tour to the Royal Monastery of Escorial that Philip II ordered. build as a Residence and Royal Pantheon. A symbol of the greatness of the Spanish Empire, the palace-monastic complex is an impressive construction of great historical-artistic and architectural value that houses jewels such as the Basilica, the Pantheon with the tombs of almost all the Kings of Spain since Emperor Charles V, the Royal Library or the palace rooms occupied by the different reigning dynasties.
After the guided tour of El Escorial we will have free time before continue the route to the nearby Cuelgamuros Valley where the highest Christian cross in the world (150 meters) announces the location of the Valley of the Fallen, an extraordinary and controversial work of architecture, sculpture and engineering erected in honor of those who fell in the Civil War that gave way to a long period of dictatorship in Spain. We visited the interior of the basilica excavated in the rock and admired the grandeur of the monumental complex and the natural setting that houses it, a protected natural space of great ecological value and singular landscape beauty.

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Long description

This tour from Madrid to Toledo, El Escorial and Valle de los Caidos is one of the essential tours near Madrid . An unforgettable experience in a place unique in architecture, history and landscape!

Included

Please note that this tour is bilingual, combining English and Spanish
Tour duration includes round trip travel

Not Included

Round trip Madrid-Toledo-El Escorial-Valley of the Fallen-Madrid by air-conditioned bus.
Accompanying guide on the Bus.
Panoramic visit in Toledo
Spanish and English guided tour in Toledo
Entrance and guided tour of the Monastery of El Escorial
Entrance to the Valley of the Fallen and guided tour inside the Basilica.

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