23–31 January 2027 · Eight Nights
Join us for Andalucía in the luminous quiet of winter. Two nights in Seville, then four in a luxury Andalucían cortijo beneath El Torcal de Antequera — with curated day trips centered on history and culture. Our Granada finale includes the Alhambra and Saturday-night flamenco. Six guests, hosted by Desta & Gus — two guides. A snowbird's Spain: sixty degrees and sun while the north is covered in snow. Apply now to plan your reprieve.
We keep it to six guests, total. Two nights open the trip in Seville — the Cathedral, the Alcázar, flamenco in Triana on a Saturday night — then we settle for four nights into a luxury Andalucían cortijo beneath El Torcal de Antequera: ensuite rooms with terraces, a heated pool, a sauna with the limestone towers in frame, a private chef some evenings, local standouts and a Michelin experience as well.
Your own room and terrace in the hills, El Torcal's karst crags standing straight overhead, Antequera and its five-thousand-year-old dolmens just down the road — mid-Winter's reprieve of sun-drenched warm days in mountain light.
January is Andalucía turned luminous — the north under snow, mild sun, empty lanes, the Alhambra calm and enjoyable. Almond country coming into blossom. This is not tourist season; this is the region at its most authentic.
The week ends where Andalucía peaks: two nights in Granada, the Alhambra walked with a historian, the hammam, and flamenco in the Albaicín. Let us show you the way — Gus, our guide, in three languages, all week.
In 1492 the last Muslim kingdom in Spain surrendered the palace you walk on the final day of this week — eight centuries, closed in an afternoon. What ended here did not vanish. It crossed.
The Moriscos — Spain’s Muslims, pressed out over the century that followed — carried their music, their trades and their building south into Morocco. Andalusi music is still played there by families who trace themselves to that crossing.
Our Marrakesh week opens the day after this one closes in Granada, and the way between them is by sea: the Strait, both continents in sight from the deck. If you would like to follow the thread the whole way, ask us about the crossing.
City, then a cortijo in the mountains, then Granada — the days go out, and every one of them comes home to it. Click any day to open it.
Arrive in Seville and step into the old town — a restored 17th-century casa-palacio, steps from the Cathedral. Fly in as early as you can on the 23rd — a short taxi brings you to us — or take the train down from Madrid. A first glass, an early tapas, the sound of the barrio after dark. Arrival day stays light.
Seville on foot — the Cathedral and the Giralda, the Real Alcázar and its Mudéjar courtyards, the orange-tree lanes of Santa Cruz, a long lunch, and Plaza de España in the low winter light. An evening of tapas and flamenco in Triana, the birthplace of the form.
East through the olive country, and into deep time. At Antequera, the dolmens — five-thousand-year-old megalithic chambers, older than the pyramids, aligned on the mountain they face. A long lunch in town, then up to El Torcal itself: boardwalk trails through a Jurassic seabed lifted skyward and carved into towers of limestone. And twenty minutes down the hill, the residence — a luxury cortijo beneath those same crags. Rooms, the first pour, the sauna and the heated pool, and the week's opening table: a private chef, and six travellers settling into what quietly becomes home.
Down to the coast and east — Nerja, its famous sea caves and the Balcón de Europa out over the water, then up to Frigiliana, one of Spain's prettiest white villages: cobbled Moorish lanes, hilltop views, a long lunch in the sun. Then home over the mountains at dusk, El Torcal's towers going violet above the cortijo.
A morning with an artisan olive-oil producer near Málaga — her mill, the tasting, her studio; late January is the harvest tail, so the stones may still be pressing. Then into Málaga itself: Picasso's birthplace and museum, the cathedral, the Atarazanas market, the port. And before the drive home, espetos — sardines grilled over an open fire on Pedregalejo beach.
The dramatic day: Ronda straddling its gorge, the Puente Nuevo, the oldest bullring in Spain, the cliff-edge wineries of the Serranía. The morning is for the sites — and at two o'clock, the week's one great table: lunch at Bardal, Ronda's celebrated Michelin kitchen, with a long golden afternoon to walk it off before the drive home.
The drive to Granada. A private, timed tour of the Alhambra and the Generalife with a historian, while your luggage is spirited to a historic boutique in the Realejo — you finish the palaces as the light goes gold. Then dinner at an Albaicín carmen, looking back across the ravine at the Alhambra you just walked, now lit against the dark. The arrival, bookended.
The Albaicín and Sacromonte by day — white lanes, the miradors, the Alhambra framed across the ravine — then the candlelit Hammam Al Ándalus to melt the miles away. And the finale, on the one night the scene is at its peak: intimate flamenco at Casa Ana in the Albaicín, and a last tapas crawl together.
Farewell from Granada — a flight or the train onward from the city, carrying a week of Andalucía with you: the residence, the almond light, the guitar, the Alhambra glowing at your back. We're glad to help you plan the journey home.
Gus has led our Bordeaux tours for years — wine, history, and the character of places, in three languages. Now he opens Andalucía: fluent, warm, and with you all week.
An artist and artisan olive-oil producer who welcomes small groups to her mill — the tasting, the studio, the stones still pressing in the winter harvest. A morning of real Andalucía.
A luxury Andalucían cortijo beneath the limestone crags of El Torcal — ensuite rooms and terraces, a heated pool, a sauna, and a private chef most evenings. The days go out, and every one of them comes home to this.
The cortijo gives every solo traveller their own room — and we never charge a single-supplement penalty for arriving on your own. Come as you are; you'll leave among friends.
The tour is designed for a mix — solos and couples, six in all. Tell us who's travelling with you, and we'll be in touch personally with the details.
Eight nights, all lodging, guided days, private transfers, and the tables named below. Flights are not included. By application — a deposit holds your place.
For those who wish to linger, a self-directed extension that begins after the tour ends — arranged by our concierge, but on your own schedule. West to Jerez, the world capital of sherry, and into the legendary Cádiz Carnival in the days that follow.
The extension is optional and priced separately from the tour. Let us know when you inquire, and we'll arrange the nights, the bodegas, and the transfers.
Your Pas Perdu concierge — the character of a place, the flow of the days, the cortijo, the Granada finale. Ask him anything about the week. Y sí, también en español.
A curated, six-guest week — by application, not checkout, so we can hold it small and hold it well. Tell us who you are and we'll be in touch.