Galicia 4-day Food & Wine Private Tour
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- Private Tour
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Juanjo leads this tour and can be adapted to your specific needs. We will visit the main wine regions of Galicia, enjoy their wines, visit their cities monuments, and hidden corners, taste the typical meals and obtain an off-the-beaten-track experience, rest in the best hotels, monasteries, old castles or manor houses. An exclusive experience hard to forget.
Itinerary Details
Operated by: Tours of Galicia
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Day 1 From Santiago to Cambados
Stop At: Bodegas del Palacio de Fefinanes
We will visit Cambados, Europan Wine Capital 2017, and one of its main and most prestigious wine cellars in the Pazo de Fefiñanes
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bodegas Granbazan
Visit this very nice chateau style cellar where you will be able to taste their very reputed wines.
Duration: 50 minutes
Stop At: Isla de la Toja
Visit La Toja, famous for its thermal medicinal spring waters, now a luxury resort, The Saint Caralampio church all covered with scallop shells, to after go to El Grove to embark in a catamaran that will take us to the mussel farms while we enjoy mussels and wine.
Duration: 2 hour
Day 2 Pontevedra - Vigo - Tuy - Valença
Stop At: Casco antiguo de Pontevedra
Visit Combarro a very picturesque fishing town and its (horreos) by the sea. We then go to Pontevedra, the most monumental city of Galicia after Santiago.
Duration: 2 hour
Stop At: Baiona
Baiona a fishing town where the news of the new world fist arrived, with its impressive castle of Monterreal, from there we will continue through the coastal Portuguese Camino de Santiago to Oia where lunch will be taken while contemplating the Atlantic and the waterfront XII century Oya monastery.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: A Guarda
La Guardia is the last town on the Atlantic coast neighbouring with Portugal. We will go Up to Mount Santa Tecla to see the prehistoric Celtic settlements and the stunning views of The Atlantic, Portugal and The Rosal valley.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Valenca
After visiting Tuy and Its cathedral, we will go across the river to Portugal to visit and dine in Valença do Minho and its triple fortified walls.
Duration: 2 hour
Day 3 Orense - Ribera Sacra
Stop At: Ourense Thermal Springs
Orense, capital of the same province and the holder of 4 of the 5 appellations of origin of Galician wines. We will visit its thermal water springs, and magnificent cathedral.
Duration: 50 minutes
Stop At: Parada de Sil
San Pedro de Rocas a VI century is the oldest monastery in Galicia placed on top of rocs. After we will be heading to Castro Caldelas with its castle and nices views over the Ribeira Sacra.
Duration: 3 hour
Stop At: Ribeira Sacra
After lunch, we will start our decesent towards the Sil river, The Ribeira Sacra is a wine region with a long winemaking tradition with all the vineyards placed in the steepest slopes of the Sil river canyon stopping in some of the wineries in the area where we'll taste their "heroic wines". Visit some stunning viewpoints.
Duration: 2 hour
Day 4 Valdeorras wine region
Stop At: Museo Casas de Munecas Monforte
The last day of our trip will take us to the Valdeorras wine region, famous for its excellent Godello and Mencia wines, we will pass by Montefurado an old Roman tunnel to divert the Sil river and obtain its gold.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Las Medulas Natural Monument
We will go off the road to take you the biggest Roman open-air gold mine in the world, a World Heritage site with fantastic views of the red colour mountain that remained. We will then have lunch and start heading back to Santiago
Duration: 1 hour
Day 1 From Santiago to Cambados
Stop At: Bodegas del Palacio de Fefinanes
We will visit Cambados, Europan Wine Capital 2017, and one of its main and most prestigious wine cellars in the Pazo de Fefiñanes
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Bodegas Granbazan
Visit this very nice chateau style cellar where you will be able to taste their very reputed wines.
Duration: 50 minutes
Stop At: Isla de la Toja
Visit La Toja, famous for its thermal medicinal spring waters, now a luxury resort, The Saint Caralampio church all covered with scallop shells, to after go to El Grove to embark in a catamaran that will take us to the mussel farms while we enjoy mussels and wine.
Duration: 2 hour
Day 2 Pontevedra - Vigo - Tuy - Valença
Stop At: Casco antiguo de Pontevedra
Visit Combarro a very picturesque fishing town and its (horreos) by the sea. We then go to Pontevedra, the most monumental city of Galicia after Santiago.
Duration: 2 hour
Stop At: Baiona
Baiona a fishing town where the news of the new world fist arrived, with its impressive castle of Monterreal, from there we will continue through the coastal Portuguese Camino de Santiago to Oia where lunch will be taken while contemplating the Atlantic and the waterfront XII century Oya monastery.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: A Guarda
La Guardia is the last town on the Atlantic coast neighbouring with Portugal. We will go Up to Mount Santa Tecla to see the prehistoric Celtic settlements and the stunning views of The Atlantic, Portugal and The Rosal valley.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Valenca
After visiting Tuy and Its cathedral, we will go across the river to Portugal to visit and dine in Valença do Minho and its triple fortified walls.
Duration: 2 hour
Day 3 Orense - Ribera Sacra
Stop At: Ourense Thermal Springs
Orense, capital of the same province and the holder of 4 of the 5 appellations of origin of Galician wines. We will visit its thermal water springs, and magnificent cathedral.
Duration: 50 minutes
Stop At: Parada de Sil
San Pedro de Rocas a VI century is the oldest monastery in Galicia placed on top of rocs. After we will be heading to Castro Caldelas with its castle and nices views over the Ribeira Sacra.
Duration: 3 hour
Stop At: Ribeira Sacra
After lunch, we will start our decesent towards the Sil river, The Ribeira Sacra is a wine region with a long winemaking tradition with all the vineyards placed in the steepest slopes of the Sil river canyon stopping in some of the wineries in the area where we'll taste their "heroic wines". Visit some stunning viewpoints.
Duration: 2 hour
Day 4 Valdeorras wine region
Stop At: Museo Casas de Munecas Monforte
The last day of our trip will take us to the Valdeorras wine region, famous for its excellent Godello and Mencia wines, we will pass by Montefurado an old Roman tunnel to divert the Sil river and obtain its gold.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Las Medulas Natural Monument
We will go off the road to take you the biggest Roman open-air gold mine in the world, a World Heritage site with fantastic views of the red colour mountain that remained. We will then have lunch and start heading back to Santiago
Duration: 1 hour
