Madrid to Porto tour

A custodian of some of Europe’s finest art collections, Madrid is a cultural heavyweight. Alongside the neoclassical museum façades, you’ll find the public parks dotted with gallery-worthy statues and the cathedral-like greenhouses of the botanical gardens. 

Historic streets lined by golden sandstone buildings in Gathis, Renaissance and Baroque style are the hallmark of Salamanca. The city also houses one of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious universities, an ornate cathedral and a central square to rival any in Spain.

The steep slopes of the Douro Valley have been painstakingly carved into terraced vineyards for centuries. Here, you can explore the wineries that not only produce the region’s renowned port wine but a number of fresh, young vintages and take in the scenery and whitewashed towns along the river’s banks.

Portugal’s second city, Porto is synonymous with the fortified wine port. Here, you can discover the houses where barrels of port age, cruise under the six bridges of the Douro River and admire the hand-painted azulejos (tiles) inside the city’s main train station.