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- Destination: Spain, Portugal, Morocco
- Duration: 18 Days
- Tour Type: Private & Bespoke
- Tour Style: Classic
About This Trip
Spain Portugal Morocco tour — this extraordinary 18-day private journey takes you through three of the world's most culturally rich and visually stunning destinations, combining royal palaces, medieval medinas, UNESCO heritage sites, Sahara desert camps, and Atlantic coastal charm into one seamless adventure.
From Madrid's magnificent Royal Palace and Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Família to Lisbon's colorful azulejo tiles and Sintra's fairy-tale Pena Palace, this Spain Portugal Morocco tour delivers Europe's finest before crossing into the exotic magic of North Africa. Explore Marrakech's vibrant souks, ride camels through the golden dunes of the Sahara Desert, discover the UNESCO Fez Medina, and conclude at the awe-inspiring Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca. Private, bespoke, and perfectly paced — this is the definitive Spain Portugal Morocco tour for discerning travelers.
Summary
DAY
PLACE
HIGHLIGHTS
1 - 7
Spain
Seville: Seville's Cathedral, Alcazar of Seville, Santa Cruz Quarter
Cordoba: Cathedral-Mosque, Old Quarter, Sephardic Museum
Granada: Alhambra, Generalife Gardens
Madrid: Puerta del Sol, Royal Palace, Prado Museum
Toledo: Santa Maria La Blanca Synagogue, Santo Tome's Church
8 - 9
Portugal
Lisbon: Hieronymus Monastery, Tile Museum, Pena Palace in Sintra
10 - 18
Morocco
Marrakech: Koutoubia Mosque, El-Bahia Palace, Ben Youssef Medersa, Jardin Majorelle Garden
Ouarzazate: Ait Ben Haddou, Tizi n'Tichka
Erfoud: Sahara Desert Experience
Fez: Fez Medina
Volubilis: Ancient Roman Ruins
Rabat: Hassan Tower, Mausoleum of Mohamed V, Royal Palace, Kasbah Oudaya
Casablanca: Hassan II Mosque
Itinerary
- Day 1: Arrival in Madrid, Spain
Your Spain Portugal Morocco tour begins in Madrid — Spain’s vibrant, sun-drenched capital where centuries of royal history meet a world-class art scene and one of Europe’s most exciting food cultures. A private driver meets you at the airport and transfers you to your centrally located hotel.
Spend your first evening at leisure — take a stroll through the elegant Puerta del Sol, browse the historic arcaded streets of the Plaza Mayor, or settle into a traditional tapas bar for your first taste of Spanish cuisine. Madrid rewards the curious from the very first moment.
Highlights: Madrid arrival, private airport transfer, Puerta del Sol, Plaza Mayor, evening tapas
- Madrid
- Day 2: Madrid Walking Tour & Prado Museum
Discover Madrid’s extraordinary royal and artistic heritage on a private guided walking tour. Begin at the magnificent Royal Palace of Madrid — Spain’s largest palace, with over 3,400 opulent rooms housing the finest royal art collection in the country. Continue to the adjacent Almudena Cathedral, a striking blend of neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque architecture completed in 1993.
Experience Madrid’s legendary culinary side at the San Miguel Market, where vibrant tapas bars, fine ibérico ham, and artisan produce overflow from wrought-iron stalls. End the day at the world-renowned Prado Museum — home to masterpieces by Goya, Velázquez, El Greco, and Hieronymus Bosch, making it one of the finest art museums on Earth.
Highlights: Royal Palace of Madrid, Almudena Cathedral, San Miguel Market, Prado Museum, Madrid art and culture
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- Madrid
- Day 3: Toledo — City of Three Cultures
Venture to Toledo — one of Spain’s greatest historic cities, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews coexisted for centuries and left behind a remarkable legacy of interwoven architecture and culture. Explore the magnificent Toledo Cathedral — a soaring Gothic masterpiece begun in 1226 — and the atmospheric Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca, a symbol of medieval interfaith harmony.
Wander cobblestoned streets lined with artisan workshops producing Toledo’s famous Damascene steel and hand-painted ceramics, each alley revealing a new layer of the city’s extraordinary history. Conclude with a visit to a nearby winery in the surrounding Castilla-La Mancha countryside, sampling award-winning Spanish wines in the scenic rolling landscape.
Highlights: Toledo Cathedral, Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca, medieval streets, artisan workshops, wine tasting
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- Madrid
- Day 4: Madrid to Barcelona by High-Speed Train
Board the AVE high-speed train from Madrid to Barcelona — one of the finest rail journeys in Europe, crossing the Spanish plateau and Ebro Valley at over 300 km/h in just 2.5 hours. Arrive in Catalonia’s vibrant capital and check into your centrally located hotel in the heart of the city.
Spend the afternoon exploring Plaça Catalunya — the lively central square where the old city and modern Barcelona meet — and stroll the elegant streets of El Born district, with its boutique shops, art galleries, and outdoor cafés. Barcelona rewards simply wandering.
Highlights: AVE high-speed train, Barcelona arrival, Plaça Catalunya, El Born district, Catalonian culture
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- Barcelona
- Day 5: Barcelona Gothic Quarter & Cultural Walking Tour
Begin a guided walking tour through Barcelona’s extraordinary Gothic Quarter — one of the best-preserved medieval city centers in Europe, where narrow Roman-era lanes weave between Gothic churches, hidden plazas, and centuries-old markets. Visit the magnificent Barcelona Cathedral, its cloister home to 13 white geese that have guarded it since the 14th century.
Admire the ornate interior of the Palace of Catalan Music — a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the most dazzling example of Catalan Art Nouveau architecture in the world, its stained-glass ceiling flooding the concert hall with colored light. End with a leisurely stroll along La Rambla, experiencing street performers, flower stalls, and the irresistible energy of Barcelona’s most famous boulevard.
Highlights: Gothic Quarter, Barcelona Cathedral, Palace of Catalan Music, La Rambla, La Ribera district
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- Barcelona
- Day 6: Gaudí Architectural Tour — Sagrada Família & Modernista Masterpieces
Immerse yourself in the visionary genius of Antoni Gaudí — the architect who transformed Barcelona into one of the world’s great architectural cities. Visit Casa Batlló on the Passeig de Gràcia, where dragon-scale rooftiles and organic flowing forms create one of the most extraordinary building facades ever conceived, and Casa Milà (La Pedrera), its undulating limestone façade and surreal rooftop sculpture garden unlike anything else on Earth.
Conclude at the Sagrada Família — Gaudí’s unfinished masterpiece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site under continuous construction since 1882, where the soaring towers and extraordinary interior of light, color, and nature-inspired stone create a spiritual experience unlike any other cathedral in the world. A private guided tour reveals the symbolism and architectural genius behind every façade and column.
Highlights: Casa Batlló, Casa Milà La Pedrera, Sagrada Família UNESCO, Gaudí architecture tour, Modernista Barcelona
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- Barcelona
- Day 7: Barcelona to Lisbon, Portugal
Transfer to Barcelona El Prat Airport for your flight to Lisbon — and your Spain Portugal Morocco tour crosses its first border into the warmth and elegance of Portugal’s capital. A private driver meets you at Humberto Delgado Airport and transfers you to your hotel.
Spend the evening wandering Lisbon’s distinctive hillside neighborhoods — where vintage yellow trams rattle through narrow streets, colorful azulejo tile panels line historic building facades, and the scent of freshly baked pastéis de nata drifts from bakery windows. Find a miradouro (viewpoint) overlooking the Tagus estuary as the sun sets over the Atlantic.
Highlights: Flight to Lisbon, private transfer, yellow tram sighting, Lisbon riverside walk, pastéis de nata
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- Lisbon
- Day 8: Lisbon — Jerónimos Monastery, Belém & Tile Museum
Begin at Jerónimos Monastery in the riverside Belém district — a 16th-century UNESCO World Heritage masterpiece of Manueline architecture, commissioned by King Manuel I to celebrate Vasco da Gama’s successful sea route to India. The monastery’s ornate cloisters, with their intricate maritime carvings of coral, ropes, and exotic creatures, are among the finest in Europe.
Visit the adjacent Belém Tower — the iconic fortified lighthouse guarding the mouth of the Tagus since 1519 — before exploring the extraordinary National Tile Museum, where centuries of Portuguese ceramic art are displayed in chronological splendor, including the famous 23-metre 18th-century tile panorama of Lisbon before the 1755 earthquake. End with a stroll through the Alfama district and the grand Praça do Comércio on the waterfront.
Highlights: Jerónimos Monastery UNESCO, Belém Tower, National Tile Museum, Alfama district, Praça do Comércio
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- Lisbon
- Day 9: Sintra Day Trip — Palaces, Castles & Coastal Riviera
Travel to Sintra — one of the most romantic and atmospheric towns in all of Europe, a UNESCO Cultural Landscape of forested hills crowned with extravagant royal palaces and Moorish castles. Explore the extraordinary Pena Palace — a vivid neo-Gothic, neo-Manueline, and neo-Moorish fantasy of towers, turrets, and brightly painted walls perched dramatically above the forest canopy.
Return to Lisbon via the scenic Estoril and Cascais Riviera — a beautiful stretch of Atlantic coastline with golden beaches, elegant promenades, and the famous Estoril Casino that inspired Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale. The contrast between Sintra’s mystical mountain palaces and Cascais’s breezy coastal charm makes this one of the finest day trips in Europe.
Highlights: Sintra Pena Palace UNESCO, Moorish Castle, Cascais coastal drive, Estoril Riviera, Atlantic Ocean views
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- Lisbon
- Day 10: Lisbon to Marrakech — Africa Begins
Board your morning flight from Lisbon to Marrakech — and your Spain Portugal Morocco tour makes its most dramatic transition, crossing from Europe into the ancient, exotic world of North Africa. A private driver meets you at Marrakech Menara Airport and transfers you to your riad or hotel in the medina quarter.
Spend the afternoon at leisure — wander the narrow lanes of the medina, browse the first souk stalls, and absorb the extraordinary sensory shift: the call to prayer, the scent of spices, the vibrant colors of hand-dyed fabrics and handcrafted lanterns. End the evening at the legendary Jemaa el-Fnaa Square, where storytellers, musicians, snake charmers, and food vendors create one of the greatest open-air spectacles in the world.
Highlights: Flight to Marrakech, private transfer, medina first impressions, Jemaa el-Fnaa Square evening experience
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- Marrakech
- Day 11: Marrakech City Tour
Explore Marrakech’s greatest cultural and architectural landmarks on a full guided day. Visit the Koutoubia Mosque — the tallest structure in Marrakech and the finest example of Almohad architecture in Morocco — then continue to the ornate El-Bahia Palace, built in the 19th century with breathtaking carved cedarwood ceilings and intricate zellige mosaic floors.
Discover the Saadian Tombs — rediscovered in 1917 after centuries of concealment, housing the elaborately decorated mausoleums of the Saadian Dynasty — and the beautifully preserved Ben Youssef Medersa, a 16th-century Islamic school whose courtyard of carved stucco and mosaic tilework is simply extraordinary. End at the iconic Jardin Majorelle — the cobalt-blue botanical garden created by French painter Jacques Majorelle and famously restored by Yves Saint Laurent.
Highlights: Koutoubia Mosque, El-Bahia Palace, Saadian Tombs, Ben Youssef Medersa, Jardin Majorelle
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- Marrakech
- Day 12: Marrakech to Ouarzazate via Ait Ben Haddou
Drive through the spectacular Tizi n’Tichka Pass — the highest road pass in the High Atlas Mountains at 2,260 metres — with panoramic views of snow-capped peaks, Berber villages, and ancient caravanserai routes stretching across the landscape below. The drive itself is one of the most scenic in all of North Africa.
Stop at Ait Ben Haddou — a magnificent UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most famous kasbahs in Morocco, its honey-colored earthen towers rising from the banks of the Ounila River like a scene from an ancient world. Hollywood has used Ait Ben Haddou as a backdrop for films including Gladiator, The Mummy, and Game of Thrones. Continue to Ouarzazate — the “Hollywood of Morocco” — for the night.
Highlights: Tizi n’Tichka Pass, High Atlas Mountains, Ait Ben Haddou UNESCO, kasbah photography, Ouarzazate arrival
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- Ouarzazate
- Day 13: Sahara Desert Experience — Erfoud & Erg Chebbi
The most adventurous and memorable day of your Spain Portugal Morocco tour — a journey deep into the golden dunes of the Sahara Desert. Travel via the dramatic Todra Gorge — where sheer rose-red limestone cliffs rise 300 metres on either side of a narrow canyon through which a cool river flows — and the palm-lined oasis of Skoura before reaching Erfoud and the magnificent Erg Chebbi dunes.
Board 4×4 vehicles for a thrilling drive into the dunes, then mount camels for a sunset ride across the Sahara — the most iconic experience of this entire journey. Try sandboarding on the golden slopes, watch the dunes turn deep orange and violet as the sun descends, and spend the night at a traditional desert camp under a sky blazing with stars unspoiled by light pollution.
Highlights: Todra Gorge, Erg Chebbi dunes, 4×4 desert entry, camel ride, Sahara sunset, overnight desert camp
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- Enfoud
- Day 14: Erfoud to Fez — Across the Middle Atlas
Journey northward across the scenic Middle Atlas Mountains — a landscape of cedar forests inhabited by Barbary macaque monkeys, Berber mountain towns, and fertile valleys dotted with apple and cherry orchards that contrast dramatically with yesterday’s Saharan desert. Stop in Midelt — a charming mountain town known for its apple festival and mineral-rich geology — for lunch and refreshments.
Continue to Fez — Morocco’s spiritual and imperial capital, founded in 789 AD and the oldest of the country’s four royal cities. Arrive in time for a relaxed evening in this ancient city, a fitting preview of tomorrow’s full immersion into one of the most remarkable urban environments in the world.
Highlights: Middle Atlas cedar forests, Barbary macaques, Midelt stop, scenic mountain drive, Fez arrival
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- Fez
- Day 15: Fez Medina — The Living Medieval City
A full day inside Fez el-Bali — the largest UNESCO World Heritage medina in the world and one of the most extraordinary urban environments on Earth, a labyrinth of over 9,000 lanes essentially unchanged since the 13th century. Your expert local guide leads you through a world of carved cedar, hammered brass, hand-painted pottery, and ancient fountains.
Highlights include the Chouara Tannery — where leather has been dyed using the same ancient methods for 900 years, its rooftop views revealing circular dyeing vats in vivid saffron, poppy red, and indigo — the exquisite Al-Attarine Madrasa with its breathtaking geometric tilework and carved plasterwork, the lively Souk Nejjarine woodcarvers’ market, and the sacred Moulay Idriss Mausoleum. The afternoon is free to explore deeper or relax in a traditional café with fresh mint tea.
Highlights: Fez el-Bali UNESCO, Chouara Tannery, Al-Attarine Madrasa, Souk Nejjarine, Moulay Idriss Mausoleum
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- Fez
- Day 16: Fez to Rabat via Volubilis & Moulay Idriss
Drive northwest from Fez toward the Atlantic coast, stopping at two of Morocco’s most remarkable historic sites. Begin at Volubilis — a remarkably well-preserved Roman city founded in the 3rd century BC, its triumphal arches, basilica columns, and extraordinary floor mosaics stretching across a hilltop that once overlooked one of Rome’s most remote African provinces.
Continue to the holy hilltop town of Moulay Idriss — Morocco’s most sacred pilgrimage site, burial place of Moulay Idriss I who brought Islam to Morocco in 788 AD — before continuing to Rabat, Morocco’s elegant Atlantic capital and a UNESCO World Heritage City. Check into your hotel for a well-deserved evening of rest.
Highlights: Volubilis Roman ruins UNESCO, floor mosaics, Moulay Idriss holy town, Rabat arrival
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- Rabat
- Day 17: Rabat & Casablanca — Royal Capital to Atlantic Metropolis
Explore Rabat’s greatest royal and historic landmarks with a morning city tour. Visit the magnificent Hassan Tower — an unfinished 12th-century minaret that would have been the tallest mosque in the world — and the adjacent Mausoleum of Mohammed V, where Morocco’s beloved modern king rests beneath an extraordinary white onyx pavilion decorated with the finest Moroccan craftsmanship.
Wander the ancient Kasbah of the Oudayas — a 12th-century fortress neighborhood of whitewashed and blue-painted houses above the Atlantic — then drive south to Casablanca for the grand finale of your Spain Portugal Morocco tour: the breathtaking Hassan II Mosque — one of the largest mosques in the world, its 210-metre minaret visible for miles and its location on a dramatic rocky promontory above the Atlantic Ocean simply extraordinary.
Highlights: Hassan Tower, Mausoleum of Mohammed V, Kasbah of the Oudayas, Casablanca, Hassan II Mosque
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- Casablanca
- Day 18: Departure from Casablanca
Your Spain Portugal Morocco tour draws to a close this morning after a final Moroccan breakfast. A private driver transfers you to Mohammed V International Airport for your departure flight — carrying 18 days of extraordinary memories across three remarkable countries.
From the gilded halls of Madrid’s Royal Palace and Gaudí’s soaring towers in Barcelona, to Lisbon’s waterfront monasteries and Sintra’s mountain palaces, through Marrakech’s souks and the golden silence of the Sahara, to the ancient lanes of Fez and the Atlantic grandeur of the Hassan II Mosque — this journey through Spain, Portugal, and Morocco will stay with you for a lifetime.
Highlights: Private airport transfer, Mohammed V International Airport, farewell to Morocco and Africa
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