When the good weather arrives, the beach is one of the tourist attractions that everyone likes, especially families with children, since the huge variety of seaside activities on offer guarantee hours of playtime, physical exercise and entertainment. What's more, on the Costa Barcelona there are six towns that hold the Family Holiday Destination seal, which means they're particularly attentive to children's needs. Would you like to know which ones they are?
Very close to Barcelona you will find a great many examples of modernista works created between the 19th and 20th centuries. Urban palaces and holiday homes, churches and hospitals, warehouses and gardens, factories and cellars, all with the signature of the great architects of the movement in Catalonia: Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, among others. To commemorate this cultural trend, different towns and cities are organizing festivals and fairs to recover their aesthetic quality. Want to find out more about them?
Strength, balance, courage and common sense, the four key concepts of human tower building, repeated like a mantra by its practitioners. For spectators, the most appropriate words might be thrills, nerves, suspense and joy. Without a doubt, to experience a human tower building event is to navigate a sea of sensations. So it’s no wonder that UNESCO inscribed this Catalan tradition par excellence on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
If you’re the sort of person who enjoys combining cultural visits in cities with nature excursions, here are four of the routes favoured by Barcelona locals, who also like to get away from it all and enjoy the outdoors, especially when these beauty spots are so close to home. These routes offer something for everyone and, like almost every other route in the country, can be enjoyed all year round.
From Montseny to the Mediterranean, by bike or on foot, an incredible route awaits you ... Are you ready to discover the natural landscapes surrounding the Tordera River and the Riera d'Arbúcies? Following the different sections of this tour, you can enjoy the exercise and wonder at a unique route, where the landscapes and the richness of the heritage will leave you flabbergasted.
Autumn is the season of warm colours. Forests become magical places of orange, red and yellow where mushrooms of all colours spring up among the fallen leaves. We’ve lined up six walking routes to enjoy at this time of year.
Si busques un lloc amb paisatges bonics de muntanya a prop de Barcelona, el Parc Natural del Montseny et sorprendrà. Declarat Reserva de la Biosfera per la UNESCO, aquest massís ha estat l'escola d'excursionisme de bona part dels catalans, l'espai on molts aficionats al senderisme s'han penjat la motxilla a l'esquena per primera vegada. T'expliquem tres propostes per descobrir-ho.
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