Extraordinary Tour in Spain

Spain's cultural section opens with the four cheapest entries in the catalogue — self-guided city quests. The Madrid one runs three hours at 4 dollars, the Malaga and San Sebastián routes cost the same, and the Seville one 6. There is no guide: tasks and clues arrive on the phone and the walker sets the pace.

Madrid carries the museum line. The Prado with skip-the-line entry costs 53 dollars for two hours, the afternoon version the same 53, and the extended one with a walk through the neighbourhoods 58 for three and a half hours. The Royal Palace without the queue costs 46 dollars, and an evening programme with the palace, a walk and a flamenco show 88 for five hours. The Prado opened in 1819 and its holdings were built around the royal collection rather than museum purchases.

The trips out of Madrid last nine and a half hours at 93 dollars each: Toledo with a culinary component, and a route through five cultures via Toledo and Segóbriga. The upper bound of the section is a professional photo shoot in Tenerife: one hour at 412 dollars. GetExperience lists 75 cultural programmes in Spain, from 4 to 412 dollars.