Local Living Tours & Trips in Spain

A traditional farmhouse near Melide is where you'll stay and try locally-sourced pulpo a la Gallega with paprika and olive oil paired with crisp Rías Baixas wine. Santa Irene Chapel has Saint James statues, and Casa Carneiro is the medieval inn that hosted Emperor Charles V in 1520 and King Philip II.

The UNESCO-listed Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba has these beautiful Islamic arches you can check out, then there's an 18th-century olive oil mill in Baena where you'll try pan con aceite. Later you can wander the medieval streets of Setenil de las Bodegas where whitewashed houses sit built right into rock formations.

Learn flamenco dancing before watching a traditional show with dinner in Granada's historic quarter, just steps from the UNESCO-listed Alhambra. You'll taste horchata in Valencia's old town, have chocolate con churros at a century-old café in Madrid, and try regional tapas at a local spot in Seville.

Medieval Santillana del Mar and the UNESCO-listed Covadonga Sanctuary in Asturias are both on the route, then you'll walk through Santiago de Compostela's old streets and see the Cathedral where Apostle Santiago el Mayor is buried. Traditional paella in Valencia and a wander around Cordoba's Gothic Jewish Quarter.

Seven nights in traditional Mijas give you a real feel for Andalucian culture with dinner at a local village restaurant. Frigiliana's Moorish cobbled streets sit in the Almijara Mountains foothills, then there's cosmopolitan Malaga where Picasso was born and Nerja's quiet fishing village quarter with wrought-iron terraces.