Quote: (02-24-2019 01:00 AM)Bienvenuto Wrote:
I would seriously suggest Granada.. awesome city/ small town really - sitting on the plain of Andalusia with tonnes of history and great culture and food and drink. Magical place.
Check out Los Alpujarras on the other side of the Sierra Nevada whilst you're there.
Specifically Pampaneira gorge and the tiny villages that cling to its side. Amazing food and setting.
Also check out the history of the Cathars and their mountaintop castles that the Catholic Church laid siege to and eventually conquered.
Incredible trail of hilltop castles strung across Basque Country, South West France.
https://www.audetourisme.com/en/tools/th...-trail.php
Second this. For a fall trip with wife and kid, Spain would be hard to beat.
Weather would be good, food great and reasonable (have to get into Spanish meal time). Lodging cheap compared to northern Europe.
You can easily take trains and buses to many other sites in the area, Cordoba, Malaga, Seville.
The range of the history is neolithic (Antequera stone tombs) through Phoenician and Roman to Visigothic to Islamic to Spanish. Sites of all types just in south of Spain alone.