Excellent day trip tour to Avila and Segovia in a comfortable vehicle in a small group (6 people including guide). We were picked up at our hotel on time by Maria who was the driver and tour guide. She was very knowledgeable and great company and worked really hard all day as every explanation was given in English and Spanish as half the group only spoke English and the half other only Spanish. Although the day was long, the itinerary was well thought out and there was plenty of free time throughout the day; nothing felt rushed. Would recommend this tour.
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- Small-group tour experience for a more personalized attention from your guide
- Round-trip transportation from Madrid in a comfortable vehicle
- Professional local guide throughout the day
- Guided walking tours in Ávila and Segovia
Excludes
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities (optional)
- Entrance fees to Alcazar of Segovia and Basilica de San Vicente in Avila (13,5€ per person)
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Traveler pick up offered
Itinerary
Meet your guide at your accomodation in Madrid and depart in a comfortable vehicle. The guide introduces the day’s itinerary and provides background on the regions you’ll visit.
Admire Ávila’s remarkably preserved medieval walls from a scenic viewpoint and pass alongside sections of the fortifications. Your guide explains how the walls shaped the city’s role as a fortified frontier during the Middle Ages.
Enter one of Spain’s most important Romanesque monuments and admire its solid stone architecture, sculpted details, and remarkable craftsmanship. Discover the Basilica of San Vicente, a landmark closely linked to Ávila’s religious and historical heritage.
Stand beneath the monumental Roman Aqueduct, one of the best-preserved examples of Roman engineering in Europe. Your guide shares how it was constructed and why it has survived for nearly two millennia.
Walk through Segovia’s historic center, passing traditional streets, main squares, and the exterior of its Gothic cathedral. Discover how the city developed during the medieval period as a royal and commercial hub.
Enter the Alcázar of Segovia, a former royal palace that played a central role in Spain’s monarchy. Explore its historic rooms and discover how the fortress evolved from a medieval stronghold into one of the country’s most iconic royal residences.
Stop at a scenic viewpoint overlooking the Alcázar to appreciate its views above the surrounding landscape. Your guide offers final context on the fortress and its setting before the return journey.
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Reviews
Our guide Antonella was fantastic and really made the day special for us. Her insights, knowledge and sense of humor were great.
Spectacular experience. Josefina did a great job. The sites are breathtaking and the history is unbelievable. What a fascinating tour!
The day was good. It was very convenient having a guide that picked us up at our hotels and dropped us off. The day was well planned and executed. The alcazar was gorgeous. The guide was kind and pleasant but could have used more information.
Sandra is the best tour guide. Professional and efficient. Organised to ensure a smooth day trip. Recommend
Lovely full day, with beautiful views of modern Spain along the way. Historical Ávila and Segovia amazing and really spark the imagination. Our guide, Maria Jose was excellent! Good English, kind, considerate and fun. Very knowledgeable! Would highly recommend this tour with MJ!
This small tour was great. I was picked up at my hotel, which saved me walking 25 minutes each way to a meeting point. This was highly valued by a woman traveling alone & getting back in the evening when it might be getting dark. I loved the small group idea so your tour is able to be personalized. Sandra was my tour guide. She was very knowledgeable about the areas we visited & the history. She was always amendable to the plan of the day to be able to spend more time in one area vs another or when to stop to eat, shop etc. There is no way I would have been able to see all that I did without Sandra’s knowledge of the areas & being able to navigate the narrow, winding roads of the towns. I really enjoyed my day. Highly recommend!!!
I enjoyed this trip to Segovia and Avila. Seeing the aqueduct in Segovia was the highlight of the trip for me, but the Basilica and Alcazar are also worth visiting. Overall an excellent trip. The guide Maria was very good. She was very personable and shared a lot of the history of both cities. I enjoyed having her as the guide.
Excellent experience! Everything went smoothly, from hotel pickup, through your of magnificent Avila and Segovia. Julio Cesar, or guide, was amazingly friendly and knowledgeable, and kept us entranced with his knowledgeable discourse and safe driving.
Julius is a very experienced and nice guide. We’ve had a wonderful day tour with lots of gorgeous sightseeing and a tasty lunch.
Very knowledgeable , professional And kind. Would of preferred visit to St Teresa Avila chapel included.
We had an absolutely wonderful experience and our guide, Pablo, made sure that we were all getting the most for our dollar. He went above and beyond to make sure we all had a memorable day. Thank you, Pablo.
Really nice experience, absolutely recommended. Our wonderful guide Maria made the travel even better!
Great value and personable tour guide. The driver was very safe and the vehicle was clean. The style of tour allowed for plenty of free time to explore -- as opposed to being overly regimented which I don't tend to like as much. Would recommend.
Sandra was a great guide , patient
This tour was a great experience. Sandra is an excellent guide, very knowledgeable , giving us a lot of details and sharing a historical context about the place and people of Avila and Segovia. She was very attentive to our needs and was always ready to take our pictures! Overall I would highly recommend this tour and Sandra!
I took this day trip with Pablo. The pickup was easy in front of my hotel. Avila and Segovia are both beautiful old cities! The walls that surround Avila are memorable to see! I liked the pristine Roman Aqueduct at Segovia the most! The drive to the two cities was pleasant. I had a relaxing day with a good amount of walking. Pablo knows history very well - You will gain new knowledge with Pablo . . .
Best and nice guide. Very knolodge of the areas bost way: historical and cultural. Her tour was very detailed offering a lot of inputs from the main points. Walked with us any were and was very easy to offer alternitive routes and explain about there. GREAT
We had a great experience visiting Avila and Segovia with Sandra. She was very informative and very friendly and courteous.
Our guide, Sandra, reached out the night before to coordinate the pickup time the next morning and answer any questions. She was punctual and super friendly. We were with 1 other person that was picked up afterwards. Sandra was very accommodating and attentive. Highly recommend- no worries about where to meet or train schedules. She was a great driver!
Sandra was an amazing and fun guide. She was very knowledgeable on Segovia and Avila. She made it interesting. She was very attentive to our needs . Thank you Sandra for helping me create amazing memories.
Wonderful day spent with our guide, Josefina. We did the tour to Avila and Segovia and learned about the history of each city. We had ample time to visit sites on our own after a brief history lesson with Josefina. The Murallas of Avila and the Cathedral of Segovia are not to be missed. We had an awesome lunch at Temu in Segovia (highly recommended by our guide) that provided a Lebanese twist on some local dishes. All in all a superb day. Thank you!
Great day trip. Drive was nice and guide Julios was very knowledgeable. Made a reservation for the group for lunch which was really good.
This small group tour was absolutely the best way to see Segovia and Ávila. Sandra was a wonderful guide and allowed our group of five guests to decide how to divide our time among the two historical cities. In Segovia she even moved the van to pick us up by the castle which was our last stop. The small group in English was much better than being part of a larger bilingual group where you lose so much time waiting for 30+ passengers to load and unload. This company also did a great job of communicating in the days prior to the tour. Sandra also called the night before the tour to provide our pickup time and even texted us the morning of the tour.
Antonella was very friendly and helpful. We enjoyed our tour and also the free time she gave us.
A very organised small group tour . Our guide Antonella is excellent and professional , and made special arrangements for me as I walk with a walking stick. The pace of the tour is not rushed with plenty of free time to do your own thing . Highly recommended
Antonella, our guide was very accommodating. Adjusts to our needs and concerns. Was very informative. We were not rushed as usual tours go but we had plenty of time to enjoy the place and hence found the time to really enjoy it and learn about it. She made sure everybody was comfortable during the whole journey.
I sent this feedback to In Out Madrid Tours “Thank you and your team for the wonderful tour of Toledo today. I would especially like to express my appreciation for Sandra, our guide. Sandra was professional, knowledgeable, and made the experience both enjoyable and informative. Please pass along my thanks and recognition for the excellent service provided.”
Amazing tour. Max group size was 8 but we only had 3. Felt like a private tour. Our guide was fun, smart and great to have with! Thanks Sandra!
Sandra made my day ! Very good driving , good conversation and very knowledgeable regarding Ávila and Segovia . Length of tour perfect
Very enjoyable day trip to Ávila and Segovia. There was a lot of history and astounding sites to see but we felt the trip was well paced. Our guide was informative and friendly with a good sense of humour.
We had an amazing experience on this tour, and a big part of that was because of our wonderful guide, Sandra! She was incredibly knowledgeable, friendly, and attentive to all of our needs. She made the entire tour fun, engaging, and enjoyable, and her passion and knowledge really made the experience special. We are so grateful to have had Sandra as our guide and would highly recommend her to anyone looking for an exceptional tour experience!
A wonderful and memorable experience! Antonella is an exceptional guide — knowledgeable, professional, warm and incredibly kind. She made the entire day feel special and personal, and I truly enjoyed every moment in her company. I came back with beautiful memories and would wholeheartedly recommend her. Thank you, Antonella, for such a wonderful day! ❤️
Thank you Sandra for being on time for pick up, and giving us the toure. You are a wonderful person with passion for what you do! You are knowledgeable about the history for sure. I also admire your patience and excellent driving. Thank you for everything.
We had an absolutely wonderful full-day tour of Ávila and Segovia with Matt, and I honestly cannot recommend him highly enough. From the moment we met him, it felt less like spending the day with a tour guide and more like exploring these incredible places with an extremely knowledgeable and interesting friend. Matt has a wonderful personality, a great sense of humor, and an easy, engaging way of explaining history that never feels like a lecture. And his knowledge is extraordinary. Matt is a history professor, and it shows. He doesn’t simply memorize dates and facts. He understands the historical context behind what you are seeing and has the ability to connect architecture, religion, culture and politics in a way that makes history actually come alive. We asked him questions about absolutely everything throughout the day, and I don’t think we managed to stump him once. One of the things that made the tour especially interesting was Matt’s personal background. Being originally from Iran, he brought an additional cultural perspective to the Islamic and Mudéjar influences that are so visible in Segovia’s architecture and history. It added another dimension to the experience and gave us a much deeper understanding of what we were actually looking at. He also never rushed us. We could stop, look, photograph, ask another question, wander off to examine something that caught our attention, and somehow Matt kept the entire day flowing effortlessly. By the end of the tour, Steve and I felt that we had experienced much more than simply visiting Ávila and Segovia. We had spent a fascinating day learning, talking, laughing, and seeing these places through the eyes of someone who genuinely understands and loves history. Matt, thank you for making an already beautiful part of Spain so much more memorable for us. Absolutely five stars and then some.
I thought Antonelle was excellent. We were a mixed group of different ages and she paced it well. She had great knowledge and funny tales. The sites, food and shopping were great.
Our trip to Segovia and Avila was very pleasant and special thanks to Sandra. She was exactly the guide my family needed since we were eight people, including a senior citizen. Sandra was punctual, always full of energy, joy, and above all, flexible regarding what we wanted to see and do. Her explanations of the sites helped us understand and appreciate each place more, and she was very kind in helping us take some photos. She is also an excellent driver. If you are going to take this tour, I highly recommend Sandra as a guide and the company In Out Madrid Tours.
A great excursion with super service and a great guide. Small group (including guide 7 people). Pick-up and drop-off service directly at the hotel. New Ford bus, ideal for the group. Our guide was very friendly, a great driver, provided very good information during the drive and on the two tours through Avila and Segovia. It was a great experience and definitely recommended. Thank you very much.
Congratulations to Sandra! Very good guide explaining everything there is to see in Toledo. Very nice! Everything very pleasant!
Very nice experience in Segovia and Avila, Antonella was a great guide.
Even though I was traveling alone, the trip wasn't cancelled. Two wonderful women took very good care of me.
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