2010 Trip to Spain
St. Benedict High School students will spend 11 days over Easter break touring Spain. After touching down in Madrid, students will spend three days touring the capital city, visiting the Royal Palace, the world renowned Prado museum and taking a a walking tour of Madrid.
Our group will then continue to Seville where we will visit one of Spain's oldest and most popular bullrings as well as the grave of Christopher Colombus. The sixth day of the journey will bring us to sunny Costa del Sol and an optional trip through the Strait of Gibraltor to visit the African country of Morocco.
Next on the itinerary is a guided sightseeing tour of Granada as we will have an opportunity to your Spain's most celebrated building, the 14th-century Alhambra, where Columbus discussed with the king his plans for sailing to India. After arriving in Valencia, rumored 15th-century home of the Holy Grail- we will visit the largest aquarium in Europe, which houses more than 500 species of animals.
The final stop of our Spanish Fiesta is the country's second-largest city, Barcelona. We will visit the site of the 1992 Olympics, view works by Gaudi, Miro, Picasso and Dali and travel Las Ramblas, a tree-lined pedestrian boulevard once described as "the most beautiful street in the world." Students will depart for Chicago from Barcelona to conclude their exhilarating journey.