Located in the Montseny Natural Park, Castanya de Viladrau is a company committed to the revival and promotion of the chestnut. It creates products with the chestnuts and the wood and organises trips, workshops and school activities in its Chestnut Handling Centre.

The district of El Bages, in the heart of Catalonia, close to the Montserrat mountains, is an area with a long-standing tradition in wine-making.

As far back as Roman times, the wines of El Penedès were appreciated throughout the empire and exported to Gaul, Britannia and even to Mauritania, making use of the Via Augusta. Such international recognition has stood the test of time until now: a third of the production is consumed abroad.

The Catalonia Designation of Origin, approved in 1999, was created to safeguard the tradition of wine production in Catalonia which has been so important for more than 2,000 years.

The wines in this area were already praised by the Roman writers Plinio el Viejo and Marcial in their epigrams.

Truffles are, in truth, mushrooms which grow underground in symbiosis with the roots of some trees.

Ratafía is a traditional Catalan liqueur which goes back more than a thousand years.

The poularde of El Berguedà has a unique flavour thanks to being fed on traditional corn and that milk and aromatic herbs are added to its diet.

Osona is one of the most well-known areas in Catalonia for its culinary delights.

Apart from the gall (cockerel) from El Penedès, in Catalonia there is another species of native cockerel, the gall del Prat. It is also known as the gall potablava (blue-footed cockerel) and is one of the city's symbols.