Barcelona to Bavaria

Barcelona to Bavaria connects four countries and four genuinely distinct urban personalities across nine days, tracing a diagonal arc from the Mediterranean coast of Spain through the Alps into the heart of central Europe. The tour opens with three full days in Barcelona — enough time to move past the obvious and actually absorb the city. Students spend time with Gaudí's still-unfinished Sagrada Família, navigate the Gothic Quarter's layered medieval streets, and get a feel for how a modern European metropolis grew out of a Roman colony and a medieval maritime empire before becoming one of the continent's most architecturally inventive cities.