customised cultural trips

Specialised in
customised
cultural trips
all over
Spain
Overview
Our travel agency is directly focused on
opening up our rich Spanish Culture and
History to the most demanding visitors to
our country. We are highly specialized in
organizing in depth trips, strolls and activities
mostly off the beaten track and at your own
request, to make our visitors experience the
richness of our culture and make them feel
the reality of Spaniards way of living.
We are well known to our customers for
our customized Cultural Journeys and
Cultural Activities and our highly qualified
and multilingual team of academic teachers,
cultural guides and historians that will make
your personal requests and interests come
true.
Our commitment is to make you sense
Spain at your own pace; feel as Spaniards
feel; savour the magic Spanish Culture,
Gastronomy and History and ultimately
make you fall in love with our country.
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Our Services
Our main selection of products and activities can all be customized and organized at our
visitors’ request, from one person only to groups (max 20 people ). We are also specialized
in giving personal advice to organize your own request trips according to your likings and
personal budget all around Spain. The following services may be included:
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Accommodation in high quality hotels and boutique hotels
Airport transfers
Car hiring
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Personal cultural guide
Museums tickets
Cultural activities
Dinners organization
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Our Products
Feel the city series
With this wide range of off the beaten track series of guided walks around the most
important Spanish cities, such as Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Seville, etc., we offer our
visitors to immerse into the real heart, Culture, History and Gastronomy of our cities.
They all include: cultural specialist guide through the tour, food and wine tastings, museum
tickets when visited. Duration varies from 3 to 4 hours. They can be adapted to your personal
needs and we will be very pleased to create specific ones depending on your personal
interests.
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Our Products
Feel the city series
Feel Madrid main walks
From Alonso Martinez to Templo de Debod
This stroll will make you go deep into two of the most popular Madrid districts: Malasaña
and Conde Duque. Bustling with old libraries, young fashion artists little shops, nineteen
century historical cafes, contemporary art galleries and buzzing terraces full of young fresh
people having their appetizers.
Both districts were traditionally linked to the Madrid 2nd of May 1808 uprising and later
to the famous 80s cultural movement “Movida Madrileña”. We invite you to mingle urban
landscapes, modernist architecture, and contemporary art and of course, have a taste of
the most traditional Spanish “tapas” and wines.
Lavapiés, our cultural kaleidoscope
Lavapies, once the Jewish quarter in the times of the Catholic Kings, is nowadays a vibrant
kaleidoscope of multiculturalisms in Madrid. Small Chinese and Arab shops, restaurants
with Indian, Moroccan, Lebanese or Senegalese cuisine will be among the variety of cultural
presence in this beautiful quarter. With this walk we are willing to open the heart of Lavapies
and its intense cultural and handcrafts activities, where you will also be able to experience
the Spanish food during the visit. The itinerary finishes right at the Reina Sofia modern art
museum, house of one of the most word renowned Pablo Picasso paintings: “El Guernica”.
MADRID
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Our Products
Feel the city series
Feel Barcelona main walks
El Borne
Once known as la Ribera (Sea Shore), it´s from the X century one of the most traditional and genuine
districts in Barcelona. Our cultural guide will take you through winding little roads and enigmatic
squares and will make you feel as the Middle Ages masons who walked the same streets to build the
astonishing gothic Santa María del Mar Church, also known as Cathedral of the Sea, right in the heart
of El Born - that it is part of our visit.
Nowdays, El Born is a lively and modern spot for Barceloneses spending their evening in trendy
restaurants and cafes. Strolling around this beautiful district, you deserve to enjoy one of the best
chocolate cakes in town, award-winning in 2005.
Barcelona Food Markets
Our cultural guide will take you in this beautiful walk for fresh food lovers, to deeply discover the most
romantic and lively markets in Barcelona. We won´t miss the Mercat de la Boqueria, just at the heart
of Las Ramblas, where “people eat, shop and gossip together doing what the Spanish excel at, living
the live well and enjoying a sense of community” (Thomasina Miers, chef at the Wahaka restaurant
in London).
Followed by the Mercat de Santa Catherina, first closed market in town and named after a Dominican
convent is now a jewel of architecture thanks to Enric Miralles renovation project almost shares the
square in relevance with the stunning Gothic Barcelona Cathedral.
A third visit will take you to La Barceloneta Market renewed in 2007 by the architect Josèp Mias has
also been awarded with the City of Barcelona award in the same year.
Former seamen market very connected to Barcelona sea port, it´s now an architectural and
gastronomic reference.
BARCELON
Our Products
Feel the city series
Historical walks
Madrid in Velazquez times
This walk will take you back in time to the XVII century, to the intricate Philip IV court. Velazquez
was at that time at Philip IV disposal to paint the spectacular portraits of the Spanish Monarchy
that can be visited nowadays in the Prado Museum.
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Our Velazquez expert guide will walk the main spots linked to Velazquez life and work and
under his own character and experiences you will get a deep knowledge of that important
part of our Spanish history. There will also be time to stop for a nice food degustation.
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Our Cultural Activities
We would like your experience to be a fusion of learning, enjoyment and feeling emotions.
We want you to take part and be an active actor of our culture and not only mere observer.
Our wide offer of cultural activities will make your wishes come true.
All of our cultural activities are available in Madrid. For the rest of Spanish cities they
will be organised under request. Please, don´t hesitate to contact our cultural experts for
specific information.
Prices and availability will be offered on request.
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Our Cultural Activities
Spanish language workshop for travellers
Meet our Spanish teachers and enjoy an amusing lesson to learn the necessary words and
expressions to be able to integrate with Spanish people during your visit to our country. Just
an intensive half a day course will give you the main tools to enjoy a deeper understanding
of our culture.
More Spanish courses available. Prices and availability will be offered on request.
In depth guided museums visits
The great quality and richness of Spanish museums is one of the key stones of our cultural
activities.
We organise all sort of guided tours with our historians and art specialised cultural guides in
the main Spanish Museums.
We cover the most word renowned museums such as Prado, Contemporary art Museum
of Reina Sofía in Madrid, Guggenheim in Bilbao, Museo Dalí in Figueres, Museo del
Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Museum of Asbstrac Art and
Contemporary art centre Antonio Perez in Cuenca, etc.
We also cover small national museums and galleries with a rich cultural interest off the
beaten track.
We will advise you according to your own interests. Visits will be organised on request.
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Our Cultural Activities
Spanish food workshops
Would you like to surprise your friends and
family with real Spanish dishes when you
go back home? We will be very pleased
to organise different food workshops
depending on your own likings.
Our most demanded food experiences are:
• Traditional Spanish menu (gazpacho
- tomato soup, Spanish omelette, paella,
etc.)
• Backery
• Tapas and pinchos
At lunch time you will eat all your creations
always accompanied with a tasty glass of
wine.
Wine tastings workshops
The authenticity and great quality of
the Spanish wines make our delicious
drink to be a complex mixture of tastes,
aromas and an intricate world worth to
be explored.
Our wine tasting workshops will give
you the opportunity to experience by
yourself those minimum differences
and become a real skilled “nose”.
Main wine tasting workshops:
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Traditional wine testing
Wine testing and cheese pairing
Wine testing and Spanish ham
(jamón serrano) pairing.
Prices and availability will be offered on request.
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Our Cultural Activities
Flamenco workshops and shows
The soul of Spanish Andalusia music. So deep and rooted in our culture that even historians
find difficult to set its real origin, but the genuine mixture of Muslims, Christians, Jewish and
Gypsy that once coexisted in Andalusia made this special and profound music and dance to
become one of the most dramatics expressions of art and passion in our country.
Our flamenco workshop will allow you to feel the excitement of those passionate movements
and feel the music deeper in your soul. It can also be combined with a lively flamenco show
at night time. More flamenco courses on request
Photography walks and workshops
A great way to explore Spanish cities is through the eyes of a photographer. We offer several
half a day walks and workshops with a professional photographer who will inspire you and
give your travelling experience the magic touch of the camera. They are also real city walkers
and experts on taking you to the most intricate nooks and crannies out of everybody else´s
sight. Photographs will be delivered afterwards to your home as a nice welcome home
present.
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Contact Information
Siringa Viajes Culturales Especializados – Madrid - Spain
www.siringaviajes.com
email: [email protected]
Tel: 00 34 676020116 (Spanish and English speakers)
Tel: 00 34 606204036 (Spanish and French speakers)
Contact us and experience the journey of your live!