Luxury Spanish Art, Wine and Design Tours
For food and wine lovers as well as culture vultures, Spain is an outstanding country to visit. For design and architecture, Spain is experiencing a Renaissance and an atmosphere of creativity and investment has attracted superstar architects from around the world to build design wineries including Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Philippe Mazières as well as local celebrity architects like Santiago Calatrava and Rafael Moneo. We have created this gourmet tour with an extra special focus on painting, sculpture and architecture – a luxury tour for wine lovers who also love art and design.
This tour commences in Madrid where you will stay in a chic boutique hotel located in the art triangle (Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofia museums) facing the lovely Retiro Park and Gardens. You´ll explore Madrid with your own private art guide who will show you around the Picasso and Salvador Dali collections of the Reina Sofia, and the Velazquez and El Greco galleries of the Prado. A Spanish Wine Masterclass food and wine extravaganza will be organized for your arrival night, taking you on a wine flight of Spain and concluding with gourmet Basque tapas.
The prestigious wine regions of Ribera del Duero and Rioja are next and you will taste wines in a 13th century Romanesque Abbey, visit one of Europe’s most beautiful Gothic Cathedrals, and stay in an outrageous ultra modern hotel designed by Frank Gehry in a small medieval hamlet. While in Rioja, one of Spain´s prettiest wine regions, you´ll take in some excellent restaurants with up-and-coming chefs such as at the stylish La Galeria in Logroño. The scenery changes dramatically over the next couple days as you travel into Basque Country, with lush hills, pine forests and dramatic coastlines along the Atlantic. You´ll visit aristocratic San Sebastian with its postcard-perfect, tidy half-moon bay and charming old town. San Sebastian is gourmet paradise and has more Michelin starred restaurants per inhabitant than Paris. We’ll organize a gastronomic tasting menu for you at our favorite three Michelin starred eatery Akelarre- expect an amazing lunch overlooking the ocean!
Frank Gehry´s tremendous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is on the agenda, before flying to bohemian Barcelona. You´ll enjoy a special private wine tour to the high-end boutique cellars of Priorat, and private guided art tours in Barcelona’s best contemporary art museums such as the Picasso museum and Joan Miró foundation. You´ll stay in the most glamorous designer hotel in Barcelona, right on the elegant Passeig de Gracia and conclude this unforgettable art, wine and design tour with a farewell dinner in a very romantic venue. If you want a luxury tour in Spain with a taste of both cities and countryside; food and wine; art and architecture; than contact us for more information on this sample tour info@cellartours.com