Toledo. Wine, ham and marzipan: gastrotrip to Toledo

Offer # ST00300152
Program: Toledo. Wine, ham and marzipan: gastrotrip to Toledo - Trip toSpain by SpainTOP
Duration: 2 days
Destinations: Toledo
  This offer is valid from 24/09/2020 to 31/12/2021

Land Arrangements

Innovative wine-making technology at Finca Constancia
maximum: 20 persons (20 adults / 18 children)

Private Guide for Walking Tour 3h 3h
maximum: 30 persons (30 adults / 28 children)

Private Marzipan workshop 2h 1-4 pax 2h
maximum: 4 persons (4 adults / 3 children)

Trip Summary

  1. arrival

    2:00PM Innovative wine-making technology at Finca Constancia
    overnight: Parador de Toledo 4* Room Standard - Bed and Breakfast

  2. 10:00AM Private Guide for Walking Tour 3h
    12:00PM Private Marzipan workshop 2h 1-4 pax
    overnight: Parador de Toledo 4* Room Standard - Bed and Breakfast

  3. departure

The Destination

Toledo

Discover Toledo, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as a free open air museum by strolling along its steep streets that reflect its grandiose past, when the city played a leading role in Spanish history. Known as the city of three cultures, due to the fact that for centuries Christians, Arabs and Jews lived peacefully. This was one of the Toledo´s most splendid periods when, among other important events, the Toledo School of Translators was founded. Later, when Carlos V came to the throne in 1519, the city became an imperial capital. This impressive medieval city and seat of the Cardinal Archbishop of Spain, is where the painter El Greco spent most of his life. Outstanding buildings are the Cathedral, considered one of the masterpieces of Gothic art; the church of Santo Tomé, famous for housing the painting of El Greco The Burial of Count Orgaz and the old Synagogue of Ste. Maria la Blanca, probably built in the 12th century.

Detailed Itinerary

Toledo arrival
day 1

Toledo - arrival

Innovative wine-making technology at Finca Constancia
The estate you are visiting today represents a landmark of innovation in the winemaking industry of Spain. In the world of wine, the concept behind traditional Châteaux in Bordeaux is the key to excellence and high quality in the final wine and this is the concept that the family implemented by building a new cellar in 2005. These are not only the two fundamental Bordeaux wine making principles of the parcel selection and gravity filling, that makes this estate a benchmark of excellence but also, the new winery beautifully integrates into the landscape where it is located, using avant-garde technology visually it is divided into three modules differentiated by the materials they use and which correspond to the phases of the winemaking process: stainless steel - the room that houses the fermentation tanks, glass - where the bottling warehouse is located and the wood – which collects the barrel room.

Throughout the tour you will be introduced to this innovative concept, beginning your experience with a guided visit through the vineyard and the winery and at the end you will learn wine tasting like an expert and discover what you have learned in four different wines of the estate.

Included in the experience:
•    Guided visit through the vineyard and the winery
•    Four wines tasting
•    Expert masterclass on wine tasting


Accommodation: Parador de Toledo 4*
Cerro del Emperador, s/n, 45002 Toledo

¿Te imaginas disfrutando de las maravillosas visitas de la ciudad Imperial de Toledo descansando en una tumbona junto a la piscina? Si te gusta la idea, te esperamos en el Parador. El edificio es impresionante, y no solo podrás ver la ciudad Patrimonio de la Humanidad desde su piscina, también desde sus salones, su terraza y sus habitaciones. En el Parador de Toledo disfrutarás de amplias y lujosas instalaciones. El confortable mobiliario se inserta con vigas, escaleras, barandillas de madera. Te envolverá el ambiente cálido y acogedor de sus habitaciones y desde ellas podrás disfrutar de preciosas vistas de la Ciudad Imperial.


Toledo- departure
day 2

Toledo - departure

Private Guide for Walking Tour 3h
Meet your private guide and start enjoying a half-day private tour to explore the monumental city of Toledo, formerly the capital of the Spanish Empire. Discover Toledo, also known as the "city of the three cultures": Moorish, Jewish and Christian. 

Start this picturesque walking tour in the old town, entering to the old quarter to visit the “Plaza del Ayuntamiento” and discover the façade of the impressive Primate Cathedral, the old Palace of Justice and the City Hall. You continue your walk through the old Jewish quarter with its narrow streets to visit the Church of St. Tomé, with the very famous painting of El Greco "The Burial of Count Orgaz" and the old Synagogue of “Santa. Maria la Blanca” or the "Transito Synagogue", which remain as symbols of the coexistence of the three cultures. 


Private Marzipan workshop 2h 1-4 pax
Marzipan has been produced in Toledo for so many centuries. It is not clear what was the origin of this recipe: the result of peeled and crashed almonds together with some different types of sugar. Some say it comes from Italy, others think it might be during Moorish era that the use of this cake became popular.
Be it one or the other, the fact is that you cannot leave Toledo nowadays without tasting the delicious local marzipan. Today, you also learn how to do it yourself. You are taken to a professional workshop where they elaborate thousands of kilos of every different marzipan type and the master chef explains what are the secrets behind a magnificent piece. You work hands on to create your own unique piece of marzipan, which you might even take home as a souvenir… if you can hold from eating it out at once!

Private Marzipan workshop 2h 1-4 pax

Accommodation: Parador de Toledo 4*
Cerro del Emperador, s/n, 45002 Toledo

¿Te imaginas disfrutando de las maravillosas visitas de la ciudad Imperial de Toledo descansando en una tumbona junto a la piscina? Si te gusta la idea, te esperamos en el Parador. El edificio es impresionante, y no solo podrás ver la ciudad Patrimonio de la Humanidad desde su piscina, también desde sus salones, su terraza y sus habitaciones. En el Parador de Toledo disfrutarás de amplias y lujosas instalaciones. El confortable mobiliario se inserta con vigas, escaleras, barandillas de madera. Te envolverá el ambiente cálido y acogedor de sus habitaciones y desde ellas podrás disfrutar de preciosas vistas de la Ciudad Imperial.


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