Spain: the 2027 Total Eclipse in Cadiz and Andalusia

Arrive in Seville

Seville Airport or Santa Justa station to your hotel in the old centre

• Welcome dinner
• Nuit : Seville
• Environ 15 min de route

Matin

At about 7:30 pm your See Sight Tours guide meets the group for a short briefing on the week: how the eclipse morning works, what the cloud plan is, and how we pace the days around the heat. Then we walk out as the streets fill again, through the lanes of Barrio Santa Cruz, past orange trees and tiled patios, to the floodlit cathedral and the Giralda tower.

Soir

The welcome dinner is at a local restaurant, late by Spanish custom, with small plates to share: salmorejo, fried fish, Iberian ham and something cold to drink.

Compris

• Pick-up at Seville Airport (SVQ) or Santa Justa station
• Welcome briefing with your guide
• Evening walk through Barrio Santa Cruz
• Welcome dinner

The Alcazar at opening, the cathedral, and Triana

A day on foot in Seville

• Petit-déjeuner
• Nuit : Seville

Après-midi

By early afternoon the heat is serious, so lunch is yours and the afternoon is for a siesta or the hotel pool.

Soir

In the early evening we cross the river to Triana for its ceramics workshops, then walk back along the Guadalquivir.

Compris

• Real Alcazar at opening with your guide, timed entry included
• Seville Cathedral and the Giralda with your guide, entry included
• Early-evening walk to Triana across the Guadalquivir

Activités en option

• A flamenco show in the evening, booked through your guide

Down to Cadiz on the Atlantic

Seville to Cadiz, then the old town on foot

• Petit-déjeuner et repas du midi
• Nuit : Cadiz
• Environ 1.5 h de route

Matin

After breakfast we drive about an hour and a half south to Cadiz, a narrow peninsula city almost surrounded by the Atlantic and often called the oldest city in western Europe, founded by the Phoenicians about 3,000 years ago. It is a few degrees cooler than Seville, with a sea breeze.

Après-midi

We check in, then sit down to lunch: fried fish from a freiduria is the local habit. After a rest, we walk the old town in the late afternoon: up the Torre Tavira, an 18th-century merchants' watchtower whose camera obscura projects a live view of the rooftops onto a dish, then through the Barrio del Populo to the Roman theatre. The walk ends at La Caleta, the small beach between two castles, for a swim or a drink as the sun drops into the ocean.

Soir

Before dinner, your guide gives the eclipse briefing: timings, safe viewing, photography and the forecast for tomorrow.

Compris

• Drive from Seville to Cadiz with your guide
• Lunch in Cadiz
• Torre Tavira camera obscura, entry included
• Old town walk: Barrio del Populo and the Roman theatre
• La Caleta beach at sunset
• Eclipse briefing and the site decision for the morning

Eclipse day: totality over the Atlantic coast

Cadiz to the chosen viewing site and back (plan B: the hills around Medina-Sidonia; plan C: toward Tarifa)

• Petit-déjeuner et repas du midi
• Nuit : Cadiz
• Environ 1 h de route

Soir

At about 7 am your guide checks the satellite images and forecasts against last night's call. If the coast is clear, we watch from our scouted site at or near Cadiz; if sea fog or low cloud sits on the coast, the vehicle leaves by 7:15 am for the hills around Medina-Sidonia, inland, or about an hour and a quarter east toward Tarifa. All three are inside the path of totality. The partial phase begins at about 9:40 am, the sun high in the east, and through your eclipse glasses the moon eats slowly into it. In the last minutes the light turns strange and metallic and the air cools. At about 10:45 am the sun goes out: about three minutes of totality at Cadiz, nearer four toward Tarifa, with the corona, planets in a dark sky and a sunset glow all round the horizon. Glasses go back on for the last partial hour. Then a long celebration lunch and a siesta. In the late afternoon we visit Cadiz Cathedral, and the evening is free.

Compris

• Eclipse viewing at a scouted site inside the path of totality, with your guide
• Certified ISO 12312-2 eclipse glasses
• Cloud plan B and C with our own vehicle
• Celebration lunch after the eclipse
• Cadiz Cathedral in the late afternoon, entry included

Jerez: the dancing horses and a sherry bodega

Cadiz to Jerez de la Frontera

• Petit-déjeuner et repas du soir
• Nuit : Jerez de la Frontera
• Environ 45 min de route

Après-midi

After the show and a free lunch, the hottest hours are for the hotel. Late in the afternoon we walk the old centre with your guide, past the Alcazar walls and the cathedral, then tour a sherry bodega: high, cool, whitewashed aisles of oak casks, the solera system that blends young wine into old, and a tasting from bone-dry fino to sweet Pedro Ximenez.

Soir

Dinner is tapas at a tabanco, Jerez's old sherry bars, where flamenco is sometimes sung late.

Compris

• Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art show, tickets included
• Old town walk in Jerez with your guide
• Sherry bodega tour and tasting
• Tapas dinner at a tabanco

Vejer de la Frontera, then up to Ronda

Jerez to Vejer de la Frontera, then through the hills to Ronda

• Petit-déjeuner et repas du midi
• Nuit : Ronda
• Environ 3.5 h de route

Après-midi

Lunch is a sit-down meal in Vejer, a town known along this coast for its food. In the afternoon we drive about two and a quarter hours east through the cork oaks and hills of the Alcornocales and Grazalema country to Ronda. Today is the longest driving day at about three and a quarter hours, split by Vejer and lunch.

Soir

We arrive as the day-trippers leave and walk to the Puente Nuevo to watch the evening light fall into the gorge.

Compris

• Walk through Vejer de la Frontera with your guide
• Lunch in Vejer
• Evening walk to the Puente Nuevo in Ronda

Ronda's gorge in the morning, then Malaga

Ronda to Malaga Airport

• Petit-déjeuner
• Environ 2 h de route

Matin

After breakfast your guide walks you across the Puente Nuevo, finished in 1793 and standing about 100 metres above the Guadalevin river in the El Tajo gorge, into the old Moorish town. We go down to the Arab baths, among the best preserved in Spain, with their star-shaped skylights, and look out from the viewpoints below the bridge. On the way back you pass the Plaza de Toros, one of the oldest bullrings in Spain. In the late morning we drive about an hour and three quarters down through the hills to Malaga Airport (AGP), arriving by about 2:30 pm. Book a flight leaving after about 5 pm. If you are staying on, we drop you in central Malaga instead, a few minutes further on.

Compris

• Morning walk in Ronda with your guide: the Puente Nuevo, the old town and the viewpoints
• Ronda's Arab baths, entry included
• Drop-off at Malaga Airport (AGP) or central Malaga