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Slowfood-Barcelona-Tarragona – Wonderful gourmet and cultural trip to Catalonia with all senses. Incentive Gourmet Travel Catalonia Spain through Spanish Gastronomy. 

The landscapes of Tarragonés and Baix Camp with the Roman port city of Tarragona and the modernist Reus, the picturesque fishing village of Cambrils, the gastronomic capital of Costa Daurada and Costa Dorada and the unknown hinterland with magnificent wine landscapes, wine, cava and olive oil tastings, hiking routes through valleys and mountains, varied fauna and flora, past old farmhouses that stand for traditional Catalan gastronomy, and the Ebro Delta. Incentive Gourmet Travel Catalonia Spain through Spanish Gastronomy.

Incentive Gourmet Travel Catalonia Spain through Spanish Gastronomy

Number of participants: 10-15 persons

Dates: individual

Flight, transfer, hotel not included

The program listed here is preliminary and may be subject to change.

Summary:

Visit of winegrowers and lecture on sustainable viticulture and the economic situation of the region, organic viticulture, producers of agricultural products, hazelnut and almond plantations with protected designation of origin, visit of a producer of nuts. Fischer and the fishermen guild, impulse lecture about the biological closed fishing season, economic advantages and disadvantages, the regional food chain, ecological products, export. Incentive Gourmet Travel Catalonia Spain through Spanish Gastronomy

Extra virgin olive oil with distinction, virgin nut oils, olives. Visit to a bakery, production of the various cocas and pan de cristal, lecture on organic flour. Tapas Tour. Visit to a producer of organic almond cream. We visit an agricultural cooperative, an oil press and see the entire production process. Vegetable and fruit growing and talks with farmers about sustainability and customers. Visit one of the 2 vegan restaurants Tarragona’s with the seal of approval km0. where do the ingredients come from? Vermouth Museum, the first Vermouth museum worldwide, history, production and curiosities. Incentive Gourmet Travel Catalonia Spain through Spanish Gastronomy.

Gaudi Museum in Reus visit of the most important representatives of Modernism in Reus.

The Roman Tàrraco (Tarragona) and its protagonists, walk through the old town.

The Ebro Delta, the rice fields, the lagoons, the varied fauna, everything about the oyster- and

Shell benches with a taste of culinary accompanied with a wine or cava.

Visit the Nature Park Interpretation Centre with a trip in a traditional fishing boat, Venetian gondola type, lunch with a sailor’s paella, wild ducks or eel. Sustainable fishing, farmed fish, good quality, fair trade, small producers.

The Castellers, human towers, a characteristic of the Catalans’ identity, getting to know each other during training, building the human towers and meaning. Tournaments and Contests. Wine tourism and its importance for Catalonia.

Detailed 5-day program

First day (Monday)

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Calçot food (grilled shallots) in a typical Catalan country house from 1777, as can be seen on the arch of the house. about 30 minutes from Tarragona. The excellent cuisine here uses only fresh ingredients that the fertile soil provides depending on the season.

The Calçotada is a typical dish from the western part of Catalonia and is eaten especially at the end of winter. A special type of onion, shallots, is taken, grilled on the grill and then eaten by hand, the top layer being removed, dipped into the Romesco sauce and then eaten vertically. The fire is then used to grill the meat dishes and vegetables. Eating onions in a different way with lots of fun and bibs! Incentive Gourmet Travel Catalonia Spain through Spanish Gastronomy.

Typical Catalan onion food

Calçotada menu:

Tasting with Vermouth Yzaguirre

Grilled calçots with a Romesco sauce to dip in

Roman snails with Arbequines olives

Country bratwurst with peas

Blood sausage with grilled tomato

Grilled lamb with potatoes and grilled artichoke

Orange in wine and sugar

Catalan cream

Bread, red or white wine or cava and coffee.

Evening walk through Roman Tarragona followed by a tapas tour

Second day (Tuesday)

Visit to the nearby Vinyes del Terre estate with vineyards, walk through the vineyards, visit to the wine cellar, tasting, conversation with the wine grower over a cold meat platter, white bread, olives, relaxed get-together, opportunity to buy the wines.

Vineyards and tasting at the winery in Tarragona

Evening: 0km Restaurant El Llagut with Slowfood products

In the cosy little seafaring tavern traditional dishes are combined with the wisdom of haute cuisine. Seafood and fish. Possibility of tasting different wines, dessert wines or cava from the region with the sommelier of the house. Conversation with the owners about Slowfood in Tarragona, Catalonia, and regional products as well as sustainability. Incentive Gourmet Travel Catalonia Spain through Spanish Gastronomy

Third day (Wednesday)

Cambrils, oil press, agricultural cooperative, fishing shops, eating freshly caught fish and seafood in the fisherman’s guild restaurant in the harbour, wormwood museum Reus, tasting, fun centre, walk through the modernist Reus, tour of Tapas Bar Reus.

The culinary Cambrils at the yacht and fishing port of Cambrils, fishing village on the Costa Daurada, about 30-45 minutes’ drive by regional bus from Tarragona, is the El Dorado one of the best restaurants in the area, some of which have been awarded Michelin stars. We visit the Museum of Agriculture, a modernist bodega built by Bernardí Martorell, who also worked with Gaudí. Here we see the development of agriculture over the years and the entire process in the production of olive oil and.

Later we look at the numerous fishing shops that sell their daily catch, which we will later try in the restaurant of the fishing guild with a wonderful view of the sea and the mountains in the background. A short walk along the harbour promenade with the yacht and fishing harbour will show us the beauty of Cambrils.

The world’s unique vermouth museum in Reus

We continue by taxi to Reus, the birthplace of Gaudí, where we visit the Gaudí Centre to learn more about its work and activities. We pass modernist facades of the picturesque small town of about 120,000 inhabitants to get to know our next destination, the only wormwood museum in the world. Again, inspired by Modernism, Art Nouveau, with a romantic courtyard to linger with a regional wormwood, and a visit to the building.

Reus town hall square with Modernism Gaudi Centre

Afterwards we walk through the alleys of the old town and try one or the other in one of the numerous distinctive tapas bars during a good conversation. Afterwards we take a taxi back to the hotel to end the evening leisurely.

Fourth day (Thursday)

Riudoms, visit to a cooperative for nuts (hazelnuts, almonds, pistachios, carob), organic farming. In the cooperative, the harvest is processed by over 28,000 affiliated farmers from about 141,000 hectares of cultivation area, 94% of which are almonds and the rest is divided between hazelnuts, walnuts, pistachios and locust beans. Certified by Kosher Parve, European Vegetarian Union and others. Information about an experimental cultivation area for organic almond cultivation. We receive information on how the harvest is carried out and how it is processed.

Almonds and almond blossom Riudoms, Tarragona

Walk to our restaurant about 16 minutes on foot or by car 3 minutes

Dining in El Celler, Riudoms, in a typical Catalan country house from the 18th century, with the kitchen philosophy that the traditional recipes should be given the appropriate meaning with imagination and vitality. Always with products of the season, which the soil gives, a seal of quality for the everyday work and efforts. Possibility of tasting wines, cava or spirits.

Human Towers Catalonia Barcelona Castells

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The Castellers stand for Catalonia, regional roots and interpersonal cohesion, with Castells being built, i.e. human towers that have been declared an intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO. The tradition goes back over 200 years and spread from Tarragona to all of Catalonia and the Rosellón. Children, women and men form these human towers. It begins with a closed circle, the trunk, which consists of men who embrace each other at the shoulders to be able to carry the human tower of lighter men or women and the final children. A sense of belonging, trust and perseverance are very important factors here so that the tower does not collapse, no one is injured, and the construction is guaranteed.

We watch the Castellers train, with the children starting and then the adults following.

Afterwards, a visit to the tapas bars of the Roman and romantic Tarragona at night gives us a little refreshment during a good conversation of what we have experienced.

Fifth day (Friday)

The Ebro Delta is about 80 km further south of Tarragona and we take the bus to one of the most famous water areas of Mediterranean Catalonia. The mouth of the Ebro River forms the Ebro Delta Natural Park with a total area of 7,736 ha and an incomparably rich flora and fauna, which UNESCO has declared as such.

Incentive Gourmet Travel Catalonia Spain through Spanish Gastronomy

We take a guided tour through the Ebro Delta Nature Park, the only preserved wooden mill of the Ebro Delta and with it the rice museum of Catalonia. Our guide explains to us the cultivation, processing, bottling, storage and preparation methods of organic rice with the seal of approval of the Catalan Council for Organic Farming Production. Gift for each participant with a 12 kg of rice. We see the rice fields, the lagoons and the unbelievably varied fauna, to reach the Bahia de los Alfaques afterwards with a fishing boat. There we visit a mussel and oyster bank in the middle of the Bahía, where we learn everything about mussels and afterwards we can taste these delicacies with a glass of cava or wine. We taste the gastronomic delicacies of the Ebro Delta with a sailor paella or other delicacies.

Sailor’s paella in the Ebro Delta

Afterwards we plan to visit the Ebro Delta Eco museum with the Ebro Delta Nature Park Documentation Centre, to be able to experience life here later in one of the traditional Venetian gondola type fishing boats.

The route is always accompanied by an English or French or Italian or Portuguese or Russian or Polish-speaking guide and takes place with a minibus, which will also take us back to our hotel.

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