Rioja Wine and Walk Holiday » Itinerary

Fly to Bilbao and spend one night in the city, staying in a first class hotel in the city centre.
This evening you might like to head out into town to try one of the city’s famously good restaurants.

Explore the old centre of Bilbao as well as Frank Gehry’s famous titanium clad Guggenheim museum. Drive to La Rioja and settle in to your boutique hotel near Haro.

Visit the winery of Muga, walk through vineyards to a medieval castle and then enjoy a private wine tasting with one of the region’s foremost winemakers.

This morning you visit the fascinating wine museum at ‘Dinastía Vivanco’. Continue to the ridge of the Sierra de San Lorenzo, from where you have spectacular views of the plains of Rioja and a series of 2,000m peaks.

Visit a bodega this morning on the outskirts of Logrono, the main city of La Rioja. Have free time to wander the pretty streets of the old town near the cathedral. This afternoon, carry on to the east of the region to spend the next two nights in the vill

Despite the dry land around you, a short drive away is the verdant beech forest of the Hayedo de Santiago.
Walk though the woodland before soaking in the thermal baths near your hotel.

Walk to the Penas de Islallana, a series of sheer red rock formations which are home to dozens of eagles. Return to your new, four room hotel to relax before dinner in a first rate restaurant in your village.

Walk through a natural park with a difference, as you follow a route combining natural landscapes with art.
Eight different artists were commissioned to create sculptures from raw materials of the forest.

Head back to the airport for your journey home.