Dates of departure from Santiago de Compostela, 2025 season:
March: 15 and 29
April: 12 and 26
May: 24
June: 7 and 21
July: 5 and 19
August: 2, 16 and 30
September: 13 and 27
October: 11, 25
Route
Day one, Saturday: Santiago de Compostela - Viveiro.
Meeting point at the Parador de los Reyes Católicos in Santiago de Compostela at 12 p.m.
After the welcome, we will visit the historic centre of this city, the destination of pilgrims for a thousand years, which treasures countless artistic jewels, mainly its splendid cathedral.
After lunch in a restaurant, our luxury bus will take us to Ferrol, where El Transcantábrico Gran Lujo awaits.
Upon arrival, the crew will offer us a welcome toast, as the train heads off to Viveiro.
Visit to Viveiro and free time
Dinner on board and overnight on the train.
Day two, Sunday: Viveiro - Oviedo.
We will start the morning, as every day, enjoying our delicious á la carte breakfast and buffet.
The train will take us to Ribadeo, a historic Galician town bordering the Principality of Asturias.
We will travel along the coast by bus to Las Catedrales Beach, one of the most spectacular in the world.
Panoramic tour of Ribadeo and lunch in a restaurant.
We will enter the Asturian region by train.
Arrival and tour of Luarca, the 'White Town of the Green Coast', later returning to the train and heading to Oviedo.
Dinner on board and overnight stay in Oviedo.
Day three, Monday: Oviedo - Llanes.
We start the day by going to Gijón, a city as open to the Cantabrian Sea as it is full of cultural events.
Visit to the city and a typical Asturian cider mill. Lunch at restaurant.
Afterwards, we will travel to the capital of the Principality of Asturias, Oviedo. Tour of the city before returning to the train.
Dinner on board during the journey to Llanes, where we will spend the night.
Day four, Tuesday: Llanes.
Breakfast on board.
Bus tour to the Picos de Europa National Park, the Sanctuary of Covadonga and Cangas de Onís.
Lunch in a restaurant in Arriondas.
In the afternoon, the wonderful fishing village of Llanes awaits us in Eastern Asturias.
Visit and free time.
Dinner and night in Llanes.
Day five, Wednesday: Llanes - Cabezón de la Sal.
The train will arrive in Cabezón de la Sal during breakfast and we will take a bus to the spa of La Hermida, where we can enjoy a thermal circuit or free time.
Lunch at the spa.
In the afternoon we will visit Gaudí's El Capricho in Comillas, dinner on board and night in Cabezón de la Sal.
Day six, Thursday: Cabezón de la Sal-Santander.
Our first visit will be to the town of Santillana del Mar, with its magnificently preserved medieval historic centre, and to the Neo-cave of Altamira, a museum and accurate reconstruction of the finest example of cave painting from the Upper Palaeolithic.
After lunch on board, we will head by train to Santander, the elegant capital of Cantabria, where we will take a guided tour and have free time.
Dinner in a restaurant and overnight stay in Santander.
Day seven, Friday: Santander - Carranza.
The Transcantábrico sets off to Bilbao, a city filled with dynamism that has managed to reinvent itself after the decline of its traditional heavy industry activity.
The tour to the city includes the entrance to the famous Guggenheim Museum, symbol of this new Bilbao.
After lunch in the restaurant, we will enjoy free time before taking the train.
Dinner on board and night in Carranza.
Day eight, Saturday: Carranza - San Sebastián.
During your last breakfast on board, we will return to Bilbao, where the bus to the train awaits us to get closer to San Sebastian.
Visit this elegant and beautiful city, venue for the important cultural events.