Winter Break in Spain and Portugal: Discover Beautiful Scenery and Surprises
Winter break is coming! Here's a 13-day itinerary for Spain and Portugal! With this guide, you'll be able to enjoy the food, attractions, and shopping without any stress! Are you ready for a wonderful winter snow trip? Let's go!
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🎉Itinerary🎉:
Day 1–2: 💺 Fly from Shanghai to Lisbon, explore Sintra and Cabo da Roca, and don't miss the World Heritage Site Pena Palace🏰!
Day 3–4: Travel from Lisbon to Seville, try the ham culture experience at Jabugo🍖, admire Seville Cathedral, and feel the passion of flamenco💃!
Day 5–6: Head to Ronda, Mijas, and Granada, where you'll find World Heritage Sites🎖️, and admire the living fossils of European architecture in Consuegra and Toledo!
Day 7–8: Visit the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in Madrid🏟️, and enjoy a carefully selected roast suckling pig dish🍽️ on the way from Madrid to Segovia!
Day 9–11: Take the high-speed train🚄 to Barcelona, enjoy a Gaudí magic tour, and be enchanted by Casa Batlló and seafood paella with sea views💓!
Day 12–13: ✈️ Fly back to Shanghai from Barcelona, and return home happy, ready for your next trip!
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Must-see attractions:
🕌 Alhambra, a must-see traditional Spanish building, with beautiful scenery that makes you feel like you're in a painting.
🏠 Casa Milà, with its wavy appearance and unique architectural style, inspires endless imagination, and the artistic touch overflows the picture.
🔮 Casa Batlló, Gaudí's magical apartment, is full of dragon stories, making you reluctant to leave.
🌹 Park Güell, Gaudí's paradise on the hill of Barcelona, where every tree and leaf is a beautiful legend.
⛪ Sagrada Família, a Spanish landmark, with intricate carvings inside and a varied exterior style, will move your heart💕.
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Travel tips:
📅 January climate: Southern Spain has a mild maritime climate, while Portugal is slightly colder, but you should prepare warm clothes for both.
💰 Exchange rate: The currency in Spain and Portugal is the euro, and the exchange rate is about 1 euro = 7.5 yuan.
🛂 Visa information: You need to apply for a Schengen visa in advance for a trip to Spain and Portugal, so remember to plan ahead.
🎁 Specialty prices: Jamón, wine, and olive oil are specialties of Spain and Portugal, and the price is about 20–40 euros per kilogram. +U+1F60D
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That's it for the wonderful trip to Spain and Portugal. Have a full and fulfilling holiday!
This is a must go attractions especially if you want to know more about Gaudi’s creation. Try to go earlier to avoid crowds.
This is a very nice Gaudi art and architecture theme park. The park is quite large, but the actual area to visit is not very large. It is very convenient to book tickets through Ctrip.com. There are many tourists here, so it is best to book tickets in advance.
Visited with kids. Beautiful architecture and views if Barcelona.
The design is very good, and you can see that Mr. Gaudi has put a lot of effort into it. The scenery on the mountain is also very good. Gaudi's residence costs extra money. Because we were short of time, we didn't go in. The whole garden is very large, and we only walked a part of it. Remember to take a taxi directly up the mountain. It is lighter to walk down from the mountain, otherwise it will still be very tiring.
Güell Park is another Gaudi masterpiece, combining nature and architecture. Walking around the park, curved benches and colorful mosaic decorations make it seem like a fairy tale world. The park has many characteristic architecture and sculptures, each full of artistic and creative. Standing high above the park overlooking the entire city of Barcelona, the scenery is very charming. It is suitable for relaxation and photo shoots, and is one of the attractions that Barcelona cannot miss.
Guer Park, located on Mount Perada, Barcelona, is a paradise designed by Gaudi. It is recognized as a world cultural heritage by UNESCO for its unique environmental art. Here, Gaudi's artistic interest and architectural style can be brought into full play. Whether it is space form, or light and shadow color, from the whole to the details, are doing interesting, beautiful, surprising everywhere.
Güell Park is full of fairy tales, and Gaudi blends nature and architecture seamlessly. The winding paths, colorful mosaic benches, and roofs like dragon's back, each detail is ingenious. The high point of the park has an excellent view, overlooking the entire Barcelona, and the scenery of the city and the sea and sky is intoxicating. Walking in the park, it feels like traveling in a dream picture, and from time to time you can meet the performances of street artists, adding a lot of life. It is a place that can enjoy the scenery and feel the artistic imagination.
Winter Travel in Southern Europe_20250121 Sdtky I spent four or five days in Barcelona. I know a man named Gaudi. On the second day in Barcelona, we went to Park Güell. It's very interesting. Entering from a door on the side of the mountain, it feels like walking under a stone castle. The fence is made of overlapping stones, with uneven shapes, as if stones of any size had been randomly chiseled and arranged into walls, pillars, and corridors. It looks like the texture is rough, but if you look closely you will see that it is stacked densely, seamlessly and very sturdy. Going up the hillside, there is a winding and somewhat graceful section, then turning up the mountain, there is an artist playing music at the bend of the mountain, it is quite melodious and soothing, very happy. Gaudi is a master architect who started building in Barcelona in the last century. This park was originally a residential project he built for a wealthy man named Guile. In 1922 it was purchased by the state as a park. I don’t know whether the owner went bankrupt or the government had foresight. Anyway, the ticket price of more than 200 yuan can bring a lot of GDP to the Barcelona municipal government every year. We passed the woods on the top of the mountain and went down the winding mountain. Halfway up the mountain, there is a square, which is a 10,000-meter platform. The edge of the ring is built with a whole circle of wavy benches, which serve as both a fence and a place for sitting. A circle of benches, decorated with broken tiles collaged into a painting. Known as the longest bench in the world, it sparkles brilliantly under the sunlight, like an endless underwater world. Yes, it's like walking into the ocean. When you sit on the railing and look out, you can see the Mediterranean Sea in the distance, and at the entrance in front of you, two columnar buildings stand on the left and right, like a candy house. Inside the wall, there are various buildings. There are wide steps leading up the mountain from the entrance, and a decorative path in the middle, which actually depicts a group of animals from the underwater world. The chameleon, with the lizard as its symbol, stands proudly in the center, making people walk into the fairy tale world of dreams. After crossing the hundred steps which are twenty to thirty meters wide, you can enter a hall with a hundred columns. Here, the columns are similar to those inside the Sagrada Familia, but are more decorated with magnetic stickers. The entire park is brightly colored and eye-catching, forming a sharp contrast with the ancient image of the hundreds of years old buildings. Maybe this is due to the magnetic stickers. It is said that Gaudi was also an environmentalist. Many of his architectural decorations, especially this kilometer-long bench, were made up of scraps that Gaudi picked up. Gaudi is considered the soul of the city of Barcelona. Many of his works, such as Casa Batlló, Casa Milà, Sagrada Familia, and Plaza Catalunya, were also his casual creations. Nowadays, the lizard chameleon has also become a city companion sold in small stalls. Gaudi, a master who integrated architecture into nature and incorporated forests, oceans and nature into the human living environment, seems to have remained in the sky of Barcelona city forever.