ANDALUSIA 20th August - 1st September

Program                  Sites           Transportations

 

20th August        Zurich - Sevilla

Flight Crossair Zurich    10.30
                        Genf      11.15
                        Genf      12.10
                        Sevilla    14.50
 

  Arrival in the nice airport of Sevilla 

Our Appart Hotel in Sevilla : Patio de Sevilla

 
Evening in "Isla Magica"

Do'nt forget to eat a good paella

Athletics

10.00 - 12.00        Highlights : Hepthatlon Women
 

Visit of Sevilla

Alcazar  Giraldi
 

 

Cathedral

Athletics

18.45 - 22.30        Highlights : Pole vault Women
                                                Shot put Men
 
 

Emma George  Nicole Humbert

Oliver-Sven Buder  John Godina

Athletics

10.00 - 12.00        Highlights : Hepthatlon Women
 

Discovering Sevilla

Cathedral

Athletics

18.00 - 22.15        Highlights : 100 m (Men and Women)
                                                Hammer Men
 

Maurice Green Gail Devers

Marion Jones

As there is no athletic event in the morning it is a good opportunity to visit SEVILLA

Andalusia's capital is internationally renowned and has been completely renovated in recent years. It has an
impressive monumental heritage, a rich and varied festive calendar, and a disarming and unforgettable
character, the result of a long history which has frequently marked Spain's destinies.

Cathedral
 
 

Alcazar
Italian ruins

  Plaza Espana

Athletics

18.00 - 22.15        Highlights : Discus throw Women
                                                Long jump Women
                                                High jump Men
                                                3000m Steeple

 
Franka Dietzsch  Heike Drechsler

Barmasai

24th August     4th Day of the World Championships in Athletics

Athletics

10.00 - 12.45        Highlights : Decathlon

 
Discover Sevilla

Plaza Espana

Athletics

18.00 - 22.35        Highlights : Triple Jump Women
                                                Hammer Women
                                                800m Women
                                                Discus Throw Men
                                                1500m Men
                                                10 000m Men

HaileGebresselassie Lars Riedel  Jurgen Schult  Maria Mutola  Morceli

25th August    5th Day of the World Championships in Athletics

Athletics

10.00 - 1400        Highlights : Decathlon

Rent a car

Our car for the rest of the holidays : Megane Renault Automatic
 

Our car

Athletics

18.00 - 22.35    Highlights : 400m hurdles Women
                                            Shot put Women
                                            50km Walk Men
                                            Triple jump Men
                                            110m hurdles Men
 

Mike Mc Crear

26th August    Cordoba and 6th Day of the World Championships in Athletics

Discover the wonderful city of CORDOBA

The capital of this province is a seductive city with many attractive monuments of which the
Cathedral/Mosque is the largest and only one of its kind in Europe.
 
 

Alcazar  Cathedral

Mosquee 

Viana

And Discover Also Medina Al Zahara
 

Medina Al zahara 

Athletics

18.45 - 21.45    Highlights   400m Men and Women
                                            10 000m Women
                                            Pole vault Men
 
 

Michael Johnson Cathy Freemans  Grit Breuer

Jean Galfione  Tim Lobinger

27th August  Ronda and 7th Day of the World Championships in Athletics

Discover RONDA and the white villages

There are towns wich seems to hover between reality and legend, and Ronda is one of them.
The small River Guadalevín passes through the town dividing it into two, its course having
created the 100m deeply incised TajoGorge, wich is today one of Ronda's distinguishing features.
 

Ronda 

Athletics

18.45 - 21.15    Highlights 200m Men and Women
                                           5000m Women
                                          20km walk Women
                                          400m Hurdles Men
 

Stephane Diagana  Gabriella Szabo
Ato Boldon & Franckie Fredericks

Discover CADIZ and taste the wine of Jerez

Historians affirm that Cádiz was founded over three thousand years ago and that it is the oldest inhabited city
in Europe.
 

Cathedral  Puertas de Tierra

Jerez

18.45 - 22.40    Highlights Javelin Women
                                          100m Hurdle Women
                                           Marathon Men
                                           Long jump Men
                                                    5000m Men
 

Tanja Damaske Dieter Baumann
Bukovec

Marathon  Ivan Pedroso 

29th August    Aracena and 9th and last Day of the World Championships in Athletics

Athletics

9.05                Marathon Women

Discover Aracena, the town, The sierra and the wonderful caves "Las Maravillas"

Aracena, the capital of the district, is an imposing town, full of surprises. Its awe-inspiring
Templar Castle, with a 13th Century church within its grounds and, down below, the
amazing Gruta de las Maravillas, surely the most romantic of Spain's great caves.
 
 

Aracena  Sierra de Aracena

Las Maravillas 

Athletics

18.45 - 21.10    Hihlights  High jump Women
                                        1500m Women
                                        Javelin Men
                                        800m Men
                                        4x100m Men and Women
                                        4x400m Men and Women
 

Alina Astafei Corbett  Raymond Hecht

Anita Weyermann Nils Schumann  4x400m US relay

30th August        Granada

Discover the wonderful city of GRANADA

There are very few cities which have such a dense history so well reflected in its many monuments, in its
appearance and in the atmosphere of its daily life.
 

Alhambra 

Santa Anna Generalife

Our Hotel in GRANADA  :  Hotel NAVAS

The NAVAS HOTEL is situated in the street of the same name, a typical pedestrian road of the
centre of Granada; next to "PLAZA DEL CARMEN" - where the TOWN HALL is located - and in front
of "PLAZA DE BIB-RAMBLA", heart of Granada (area of the most prestigious shops of the town),
and antechamber of the monumental core formed by the CATHEDRAL, the CAPILLA REAL
(ROYAL CHAPEL), the church IGLESIA DEL SAGRARIO, la MADRAZA (antique Arabic University)...
and ALCAICERIA, enchanting zone of small streets which in the Arab time housed the silk market
and where today the typical craftsmanship shops are located.
 
 

31st August    Sierra Nevada - Guadix

Excursion in the Sierra Nevana up to 3000m

The Sierra Nevada nature park offers the walker endless opportinities. The desolate upper
slopes of Mt. Mulhacen at an altitude of well over 3000m give the impression of being in a lunar landscape.
 
 

Sierra Nevada

Natural pathway from the Levante to Andalucia, Guadix boasts one of the oldest settlements of all of Europe.

Troglodyte Houses in Guadix
 

Guadix 

The region of mountain villages known as Las Alpujarras clings to the southern flanks
of the Sierra Nevada,cloven by deep, sheltered valleys and gorges which run down towards
the Mediterranean.
 

Las Alpujarras

1st September        Malaga - Zurich

Along the Costa Del Sol
 

Costa Del Sol

The Nerja Cave is a karstic cavity formed in the dolomitic marbles of the "Manto de Almijara", one of the tectonic units of the
Alpujárride complex, belonging to the inner zone of the mountain range known as the "Cordillera Betica".
 
 

Cueva de Nerja 
 
 

Eagle Aqueduc Nerja

 

Malaga Airport 

                                                                        Bye bye Andalusia ...

Flight Swissair Malaga 15.15
                        Zurich  17.50