A historical region with great cultural and natural heritage

Catalonia (or Catalunya) is an autonomous community which is also a historical nationality, and one of the Spanish territory that still has its own language, Catalan. With a past in which he was an independent kingdom for centuries, this region is located in a prime location for communications, landscape and culture. The Catalan community is located in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, along the Mediterranean Sea and bordering with France to the north, the country which will separate the Pyrenees. It has 580 square kilometers divided into four provinces: Barcelona, Tarragona, Lleida (Lleida) and Gerona (Girona). Inhabit their lands about seven and a half million people, and they can find treasures both natural (as natural parks and reserves exception) as artistic, urban, cultural and gastronomic. 



The capital of the community is also one of the busiest cities of the Spanish State. Barcelona is a city with an international vocation, in which trade, industry and cultural life are found for any of the arteries that cross the city. Leader in areas such as design or art, Barcelona has been the site of most important events in our country, it is noteworthy that the only Spanish city that has given shelter to the Olympic Games. And as far as sports are concerned, we can also note that the Catalan people’s passion for motor and speed achieved in the Circuit de Catalunya is held every year on Spain Grand Prix Formula 1 Grand Prix and Motorcycle Catalonia, both members of the World tests of each specialty.

But there is much more to see besides the beautiful Catalonia Barcelona. Each province has its own treasures, both in culture and in terms of landscape or nature reserves. If in Barcelona, including the capital, we visit special places and landmarks such as the Mountain of Montserrat, Lleida is the region of Romanesque art par excellence. Lleida Pyrenees holds a magnificent route, with the highest concentration of samples of this art from around the world. Tarragona has a coastline of emergency, just call Costa Daurada (or golden), full of long beaches and calm blue waters, is also a land of Roman heritage, with many archaeological remains testify. As Girona, in addition to a beautiful city classified over the years as the best of Spain to live, is the province of the Costa Brava, a beautiful coastline of coves, rocks and beautiful mansions, protected from the inside by extensions of the Empordà.



We will not go wrong if we say that Catalonia has it all. In addition to wonderful places to visit, find a culinary tradition celebrated around the world, with dishes that have traveled in the best restaurants on the planet and leave no one indifferent to any traveler. His intense cultural life is also reflected in its traditions and its calendar of festivals, which make all year is adequate to make a path for Catalonia. No lover of nature, fun and art should stop cross its territory; sure repeat