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- Need to buy:
- charger adapter
- Duration: 3 weeks
- START: Barcelona or Madrid?
- TOTAL: $2700 (including airfare) is doable
- Regions I most want to visit:
- Andalusia
- Castile-León and Castile-La Mancha
- Extremadura
- Cities
- Madrid
- Aranjuez: <30min away, strawberries&cream
- Caceres?
- Cuenca?
- Toledo?
- Cordova?
- Seville
- Granada
- 3 days in Morocco?
- Valencia?
- Barcelona
- Madrid
- currencies, exchange rates, when to exchange money
- use ATM when you get there
- make sure ATM does not charge fee
- make sure your bank does not charge fee
- capitol one card doesn't charge fees?
- have about $200 on you for backup
- never use credit card to get cash
- use ATM when you get there
- less than $80/day (total $1600/20 days)
- food budget
- hotel budget
- Hostels (require sleep sheet)
- flights
- flight ATL to START: under $900
- is it cheaper to do round-trip or multi-city?
- fly vueling from Granada to Barcelona
- trains
- book 2 1/2 months in advance
- other transportation (subways) : $2/ticket
- student discount cards
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Madrid
- Site-seeing:
- Museo Nacional del Prado
- 9am-8pm Tue-Sun.
- €6; Free to all Sun.
- Paseo del Arte ticket €14.40.
- includes: Prado, Thyssen & Reina Sofía.
- Palacio Real (Royal Palace)
- 9am-6pm Mon-Sat; 9am-3pm Sun.
- €9 with guided tour; €8 without
- Parque del Oeste (near Royal Palace)
- Bruin (old fashioned ice cream parlor)
- see sunset
- rose garden
- see Templo de Debod (egyptian temple)
- Bruin (old fashioned ice cream parlor)
- Caixa Forum
- optional free art exhibit
- Shopping: Puerta del Sol, Plaza Mayor
- Hermitage of San Antonio de la Florida
- Free
- Museo Nacional del Prado
- Hotels: Hostel Bergantin (€22)
- Food:
Caceres
- guide
- Site-seeing:
- Palacio de los Golfines de Abajo
- Guadalupe Monastery (1 hr away)
- Hotels:
- Food:
Toledo
- Site-seeing:
- City Pass: €8
- Includes: Santa Maria la Blanca Synagogue , Mosque Cristo de la Luz , burial of Lord Orgaz , El Salvador Church , Jesuit Church , Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes.
- Cathedral
- €7
- Monasterio de San Juan de los Reyes
- ~€2? (very pretty!)
- Iglesia de San Ildefonso (Jesuitas)
- ~€2? (nice view from towers/walkway)
- Alcazar - Museo del Ejercito
- €8? - don't need to go inside.
- Consuegra (Windmills)
- farther from city (worth it?)
- Puerta Nueva de Bisagra
- City Pass: €8
Cordova
- Mezquita (Mosque)
- * Entrance fee €5
- 10.00h - 18.30h Monday to Saturday
- 13.30h - 18.30h Sunday
- 09.00 and 10.45 there are services on Sundays where there is free entrance to Cathedral only.
- Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos
- Closed Mondays
Adm €4.00 (free Fridays)
- Medina Azahara
- 1,50 €
- Ruins
- Twice a day a Consorcio de Turismo de Córdoba tour bus makes a journey to the Citadel. Leaving Cordoba in the morning, with two collection points: the Avenida del Alcazar and the Paseo de la Victoria. The bus returns to Cordoba one and a half hour after its arrival in Medina Azahara. The bus ticket price is 6,50 €
- Tuesday to Saturday: from 10h to 20h30
Sundays and public holidays: from 10h to 14h Closed on mondays Seville
- Alcazar
- Cathedral
- Giralda Tower
- Torre del Oro
- Plaza de Toros
Granada
- http://www.gospanishabroad.com/granada/sightseeing-granada.html
- Bono turistico info
- Alhambra
- 12€ (8€ with bono turistico)
- El Generalife garden
- 6€
- Alhambra
- 20€ for both (once day, once night)
Valencia
Barcelona
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- http://www.spain.info/en_US/
- Fodor's Spain
- http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=2040834
- http://www.fodors.com/community/europe/how-to-plan-three-weeks-in-spain.cfm
- http://www.fodors.com/community/europe/3-weeks-in-spain-please-critique-itinerary.cfm
- http://www.slowtrav.com/tr/tripreport.asp?tripid=386&index=0
- http://www.travellerspoint.com/forum.cfm?thread=61522
- http://www.ricksteves.com/jackiesteves/index.cfm?fuseaction=entry&entryID=64
may 1 2011 ∞
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