My husband and I have purchased tickets to go to Spain for our first time in June. We will fly into Barcelona and home from Madrid. I am trying to finalize our itinerary, and this is what I am thinking:

Barcelona: 4 nights
Fly to Granada: 2 nights in Granada
Train to Sevilla: 4 nights in Sevilla
Train to Madrid: 5 nights in Madrid

We would possibly do daytrips to Toledo and/or Segovia from Madrid and to Cordoba and/or white hill towns from Sevilla. I am looking for feedback on how doable this itinerary is in the 16 days we have in Spain.

Hi and welcome to Slow Travel!

I reckon you have that itinerary spot on for the amount of time you have available. Flying from Barcelona to Granada is definitely the best option time-wise.

Local train across to Seville from Granada takes about 2 and 3/4 hours.

High speed Ave train from Seville to Madrid takes 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Day trip from Seville to Cordoba on the AVE is easily do-able (although you could drop a night in Seville and spend one night in Cordoba on your way to Madrid to save back-tracking). Cordoba merits a night in my opinion, but then Seville merits 4, so a difficult one to call!

I hope this helps!

Michael

I agree with Michael, this is a great itinerary. Definitely make the day trip to Cordoba, you don't want to miss that.

If you want to save a little money, take the Andalucia Express instead of the AVE train. It takes a little bit longer, but it is much cheaper.

I would recommend Cordoba, Segovia, and Salamanca (longstanding university town).

My husband, I'm sure, would recommend Toledo, but that wasn't my favorite.

Personally, I would rather stay in the smaller towns than in the big city. Stay in the small town and take the train into the city for a daytrip!! Oh, well--that's just me.

Charity