OK I've read the messages for spain but I wanted to know exactly how to plan a trip to spain starting in Barcelona for days going to madrid, toledo, torremolinos, seville, and cordoba? By the way is seville and cordoba considered costa del sol?

It might be best to get a guidebook for Spain. Fodor's is a good start. You might then be able to decide on your mode of transportation in Spain and then receive advice on particulars.

determine how long your trip will be and that will probably tell you how many cities you can squeeze in (a suggestion would be at least 3 days per city). Get a good map and look at the layout of the country and decide what the logical order would be, based on their location. You can fly into one city and out another to save you from backtracking. Watch travel videos and get a good guidebook or 2 to help narrow down the cities. From there, hotels, major sites etc.. Have fun!

I'm not a Spain export, as I've only been there once, but I think you might fly between Barcelona and Mardrid, and then consider trains for other distances. That is a long trip and there are very competitive air fares on the Barcelona-Madrid route, so you can get cheap airfare.

You can do Toledo as day trip from Madrid, possibly, take the AVE train down to Seville and you could do Cordoba as a day trip from Seville. Then fly home from Seville (not sure what you want to do). You could rent a car down there to drive around, also.

I don't know where torremolinos is, but I've been to the other places except Barcelona.

I think Costa del Sol is usually used just to refer to the coast (Seville and Cordoba are not on the coast, that's for sure, especially Cordoba) around Malaga.

So I would fly into Barcelona and stay about 3 days, then fly to madrid and then from there take a train or car to toledo, seville, cordoba, granada?

yeah, that's probably what I would do

As much as I like taking trains I agree with Christina re flying from Barcelona to Madrid even though the new high speed rail line may very well be complete by then. Why? Because, as she has pointed out, Spanair and Iberia compete <b>heavily</b> on this route and one-way fares can be very reasoanble. Flight time is approximately 1 hr and 10-15 minutes max.
You can book e-tickets on-line through either airline's website.

AVE high speed rail is probably the best and ultimately fastest way to get between Madrid/Cordoba/Seville. Seville is definetly NOT on the coast.

Have you considered an open jaws flight itinerary flying into Barcelona and out of Seville back home?

I was actually thinking about that but I wasn't sure if there were flights out of seville.

sure there are flights out of Seville. They have an international airport, but it's fairly small so easy to navigate. I flew there from London, and I know both BA and Air France have regular flights there. Of course, Iberia does also (in fact, I think the BA flight I took was really an Iberia codeshare). The Air France flight could be a codeshare, also, I don't know.I just know those were the most competitive fares. I got a very good deal on that BA flight.