Cities of Castile

Nine days, four of the most storied cities on the Iberian plateau, and one through-line that holds it all together: Castilian Spanish spoken, heard, and lived at street level. This is not a survey course with a checklist of sights. Cities of Castile moves your group through Madrid, Toledo, Salamanca, and Segovia in a deliberate arc — from the capital's grand boulevards to medieval cathedral squares to Roman aqueducts — and the Spanish language is the connective tissue the whole way. Students who study Spanish in the classroom will find that everything shifts when the language surrounds them rather than sits on a page.