Best of Spain and Portugal

Your 15 days begin with colour on canvas in Madrid, where you join an art historian inside the Prado Museum, studying the sweep of a brushstroke, the gleam of silk in a royal portrait and colours deepened by age. On the way to Granada, you pass between the twisted trunks of the region’s oldest olive grove before joining a local family at home to taste peppery olive oil. At the Alhambra, lace-like carvings stretch across palace walls as water murmurs through the manicured gardens. In Porto, you taste the dark fruit and honeyed warmth of port, then admire the fine Gothic stonework of Lisbon’s Jerónimos Monastery, where arches rise above intricately carved columns.