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Enjoy welcome and farewell meals hosted by GEO, movie nights at the GEO Center, and tapas nights with professors and staff.

Covadonga is the place where a famous battle took place in the year 722, one that marked the beginning of the “War of the Reconquest,” the eight-centuries effort to take control of the Iberian peninsula and that has become a key historical episode in the mythology of Spanish nationalism. We will visit other nearby towns so that students get to know the beautiful and historical Asturian landscape. 

See Burgos, home to El Cid, and visit the Gothic Cathedral. At La Rioja, tour the Museo del Vino, San Millan Yuso and Suso Monasteries, considered to be the "Cradle of the Spanish Language."

With Bilbao as a home base, explore the Old Quarter of the city and its two well known museums, The Guggenheim and the Museo de Bellas Artes. Spend a day in San Sebastián, home of the famous film festival, elegant shops and tapas bars and La Concha beach.

Explore the historic Gothic Quarter (Barrio Gotico) of Barcelona and the Picasso Museum, visit the Sagrada Familia y Casa Mila  works of Antoni Gaudi.

You will travel by bus and canoe to Yasuní National Park, the most biodiverse spot in the planet. 

You will have the opportunity to visit and study in several areas of the Andes, from 4,000 feet up to 13,000 feet. The ecosystems will include: mid-elevation cloud forests on both the western and eastern slopes of the Andes; the highest forests in the world (the Polylepis forests); and the grasslands and cushion plant communities of the páramo.

Explore this Roman, Viking and ecclesiastical city. Typical destinations and activities include York Minster (large Gothic cathedral), the Roman walls, the Jorvik (Viking) Centre, Fountains Abbey, and Clifford's Tower.

Typical destinations and activities include Tintern Abbey and Chepstow Castle, Big Pit and the Brecon Beacons, the Caerleon Roman Camp and Amphitheatre, and the National Assembly of Wales.

Tour the sites and monuments of Stratford, including Holy Trinity church, Shakespeare's birthplace and museum, Anne Hathaway's cottage, New Place, A Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production at the Courtyard Theatre, and Warwick Castle.