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Welcome to our Heritage and History Tour series, a collection of touring sections that enable you to visit an extraordinary assortment of World Heritage Sites. This special line of journeys has been artistically tailored to offer you to discover some of mankind’s highest achievements and explore nature’s greatest wonders.

Since early 90's Heritage and History Tours had been pioneering tours to the home of so many civilizations and strives to give an understanding of the cultures and peoples who live there. As we travel in small groups or bigger groups, culture divides through real people to people contact. The main focus of our tours is the pursuit of knowledge and a better understanding of the world we live in and its early history.

Our journeys cover not only heritage sites, but also the Battle Reconstruction, Castle tours, Ghost tours, Gondola Rides and many more which signifies cultural diversity, awe-inspiring scenery and genuine interaction with the local people of the places we visit.

You really have to see this building to believe it - no photograph has ever done justice to this symphony of shapes, so alive that they seem ready to take wing.

No matter how much you have read or how many pictures you have seen of Granada's Alhambra palaces, this Moorish pleasure palace will still take your breath away

Built for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 to celebrate the regions of Spain, the Plaza de España is an impressive semi-circular pavilion surrounded by colonnades.

The throbbing heartbeat of Spain's vibrant capital city, Plaza Mayor has played an important part in Madrid life since the 16th century, when Philip II entrusted the task of designing it to his favorite architect Juan de Herrera.

San Lorenzo de El Escorial, about 45 kilometers northwest of Madrid, was the summer home of Spain's kings, and in 1563, work was begun here on a huge complex, which would include a monastery, church, royal palace, mausoleum, library, and museum.

The magnificent cathedral of Santiago (St. James) was built to house and honor the relics of the saint, and it has been the goal of pilgrims since the Middle Ages, the culmination of their completing the famed Camino de Santiago.

La Giralda tower, Seville Cathedral, and the Alcazar combine to form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The tower is a minaret, a "masterpiece of Almohad architecture," according to UNESCO.

The Prado alone ranks with the world's top art museums for the riches of its collections