CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL TRIP TO SPAIN LED BY RABBI AND CANTOR CAHANA. April 20 30, 2017

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1 CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL TRIP TO SPAIN LED BY RABBI AND CANTOR CAHANA April 20 30, 2017

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4 CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL TRIP TO SPAIN LED BY RABBI AND CANTOR CAHANA April 20 30, 2017 PROGRAM DETAILS DAY ONE THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017 DEPARTURE Depart the U.S.A. Overnight: Flight DAY TWO FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2017 ARRIVAL IN MADRID Arrive at Madrid International Airport. Group transfer to the hotel. (Group transfer to be determined by flight arrival times of the participants. We recommend planning your flight arrival by noon in order to join the group for touring.) 2:00 p.m. Meet in the hotel lobby to begin the program. Walking tour in Madrid, including stops at: Puerta Del Sol, the center of the city. Plaza de España, which features a monument to Spanish novelist, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The Royal Palace. The San Miguel Market, famous for its sumptuous tapas dishes. Plaza Mayor to bear witness to the many auto-da-fé's that took place here. Check into the hotel. Kabbalat Shabbat services at a local synagogue. LaDa'at Focus The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry: Shabbat dinner and orientation dialogue with your tour educator at a restaurant, with young members of the local Jewish community as guests. Overnight: Madrid DAY THREE SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2017 TOLEDO Depart for Toledo, which remains much as it was in the 16th century, and begin with a panoramic tour of the city. LaDa'at Focus Toledo - A City of 3 Religions and Cultures with your tour educator. Tour the city, including the Jewish Quarter, the Samuel Halevi Abulafia Synagogue, which was turned into a church known as Nuestra Señora del Tránisito, the Sephardic Museum and the Santa Maria La Blanca Church (formerly the Grand Synagogue). Lunch on your own, en route. Return to Madrid. Visit the Prado, one of the world's most renowned art museums and the best collection of classical art in Madrid. Dinner on your own and evening at leisure. Overnight: Madrid DAY FOUR SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 SEGOVIA & EL ESCORIAL LaDa'at Focus Contemporary Jewish Life in Madrid Dialogue with David Hatchwell Altaras, President of the Madrid Jewish Community. Visit Segovia, a microcosm of the story of Jews in Iberia, from Roman times until the Expulsion. Visit the Jewish cemetery on the slopes opposite Segovia. Lunch on your own, en route. Visit El Escorial, a historical residence of the King of Spain. It is one of the Spanish royal sites and functions as a monastery, royal palace, museum, and school; the site has been recognized as UNESCO world heritage site. Return to Madrid. Dinner on your own and evening at leisure. Overnight: Madrid DAY FIVE MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017 SEVILLE Breakfast at the hotel and check out. Transfer to the train station. Travel by AVE (high-speed) train to Seville, a city shaped by both Renaissance and Arabic influences. Ancient texts place Jews in Seville at the time of the destruction of the first Temple (586 B.C.E.). Arrive in Seville. Visit Plaza de España, an impressive plaza built for the Ibero- American Exposition of Tour the Alcazar Palace, the oldest royal palace still in use in Europe. The palace was originally a Moorish fort and is one of the best remaining examples of mudéjar architecture. The palace has been recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

5 Visit the Great Cathedral, the burial place of Christopher Columbus, and La Giralda, built in the 12th century, whose bell tower became the city's symbol. Check into the hotel. Dinner at a restaurant. Overnight: Seville DAY SIX TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 2017 CORDOBA Drive to Córdoba, the capital of the Moorish Kingdom of al-andalus. LaDa'at Focus Great Jewish Figures of Cordoba - Ibn Shaprut, Yehuda HaLevi and Maimonedes with your tour educator. Visit Córdoba's famous Cathedral-Mosque with its 1,000 colored columns. Visit the Jewish Quarter, including Plaza Tiberias and the Yehuda Halevi Square. Continue to the Statue of Maimonides and the small Moorish-styled building known as the Maimonides Synagogue. Lunch on your own, en route. Special program at Casa de Sefarad, dedicated to the history of the Sephardic Jews in Córdoba and Spain prior to the Inquisition and the expulsion of Meet with the people responsible for the creation of this private historical venture in the Jewish Quarter. Return to Seville. Participate in a flamenco workshop to learn the basics of this typical Andalusian art form. Dinner on your own and evening at leisure. Overnight: Seville DAY SEVEN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2017 GRANADA Breakfast at the hotel and check out. Drive to Granada, the last stronghold of the Moors before it fell to Isabella and Ferdinand in LaDa'at Focus Christianity & Islam: A Dual Relationship and Mutual Influences with your tour educator. The Kaleidoscope that is Spain: Tour of the Alhambra Palace and Generalife Gardens. The Alhambra is an Islamic palace and fortress complex originally constructed as a small fortress in 889, then renovated and rebuilt in the mid-11th century and finally converted into a royal palace in 1333 by Yusuf I, the Sultan of Granada. The palace exhibits Spain's most significant and well known Islamic architecture, together with 16th-century and later Christian building and garden interventions. The Alhambra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lunch on your own, en route. Guided visit to the Realejo, the former Jewish Quarter and the site of the original town bearing the name Garnata al-yahud. Explore the meandering streets and traditional neighborhood, which have no tangible remains of the Jewish community, but a wealth of stories. Visit the Albaycn, an old Moorish neighborhood, with cozy narrow streets and charming white houses full of local color (now a UNESCO world heritage site). Check into the hotel. Dinner on your own and evening at leisure. Overnight: Granada DAY EIGHT THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017 INTRODUCTION TO BARCELONA Breakfast at the hotel and check out. Transfer to Granada Airport for your flight to Barcelona. Panoramic tour of the city, including: Plaza España and the mountain of Montjuic, site of the Olympic Ring, the main stadium of the 1992 Summer Olympics. Passeig Maritim with its Columbus monument, the

6 world-famous Las Ramblas, Passeig de Gracia, Barcelona's main avenue and its Modernist houses designed by Antoni Gaudí. Lunch on own at the Boqueria Market, and continue with: A walk through the Gothic Quarter. According to archaeological evidence, there was a sizable Jewish community in Catalonia as early as the beginning of the Common Era. For centuries thereafter, the Jews of Barcelona managed their own local affairs and lived relatively well in their own Quarter. Visit the Medieval Synagogue discovered in the Call Quarter. Conclude with a visit to Gaudí's unfinished monumental Church of the Sagrada Familia. Check into the hotel. Dinner on your own and evening at leisure. Overnight: Barcelona DAY NINE FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017 GIRONA & BESALU LaDa'at Focus Girona's Place in Jewish History with your tour educator. Depart the hotel for Girona, one of the most important Jewish historical sites in Spain. Visit the Jewish Quarter, which dates back to the 12th century. Tour medieval Girona which was famous for its Kabbalists. It was also the home of the great sage Nachmanides, who defended the Jewish faith in the 13th-century Disputation of Barcelona. Lunch on your own, en route. Stop at Besalu, a picturesque medieval town that features one of the best preserved Mikvaot (ritual bath) in all of Europe. Return to the hotel. Kabbalat Shabbat services with a local Reform congregation. Shabbat dinner with members of the local Jewish community. Overnight: Barcelona DAY TEN: SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2017 FREE DAY IN BARCELONA Day at leisure to explore the city on your own, with the opportunity to: Visit some of Gaudi's most unique architectural wonders, such as: La Pedrera Casa Batll Park Güell (especially in good weather!) Visit the Barcelona Aquarium. Visit the Joan Miro Foundation, highlighting the works of Joan Miro. Visit the Picasso Museum, which focuses on the formative years of Pablo Picasso. Walk down Paseo de Gracia, ideal for some shopping and also to see some of Barcelona's most celebrated pieces of architecture. Festive farewell dinner and group reflection at a restaurant. Overnight: Barcelona DAY ELEVEN SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 2017 RETURN TO THE USA Check out of the hotel. Transfer to Barcelona International Airport. Departure flight to the U.S.A., arriving the same day.

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