BARCELONA HIGHLIGHTS
The driver who will be calling any of the party members by the family name will pick you up at 10:00 a.m.
We will begin this itinerary with a panoramic visit to the marine city front, we will arrive at the Gothic district where we will make a walking tour, religious centre with the Cathedral, built during centuries XIII to XV above the old Romanic cathedral.
By right hand, through a fragment of the Roman wall edge, the Bishop Street led us to San Jaime square, political centre of Catalonia.
Here is the Generalitat Palace on one side and the building of the City council, to the other.
We will cross through the King of Barcelona Street where remarkable medieval buildings are located.
We will get the bus and we will go to the Batlló House, it is a building designed by the architect Antonio Gaudí, located in Grace avenue, that crosses the modernist Ensanche district, called “Manzana de la Discordia” because it lodges in addition to this building, the works of the modernist architects like the Amatller house, that is contiguous to the Gaudí building, work of Puig & Cadafalch and the House Lleó Morera, work of Domènech & Montaner. We will follow until the Pedrera, this building also called Milà house was constructed between 1906-1910. Finally we will arrive at the Sagrada Family, who is the great church in Barcelona, designed by the architect Antonio Gaudí, still in construction. Its complete name is Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Family. The Sagrada Family is the masterpiece of Gaudí, the maximum exponent of the Catalan modernist architecture.
WINE TASTING IN A CAVA
We will begin with a panoramic visit by the marine front of the city.
We will leave Barcelona towards Pacs del Penedes, where the famous Torres wine cellar are located. In our most representative warehouses you will be witness of a millenarian tradition: the wine elaboration. You will be astonish finding the most sophisticated ethnology technique to the service of this tradition, but in Torres we are expert in combining the best thing of past, present and future.
The route, of one hour of duration, begins within our splendid 1300 m² visit centre, with the projection of a video that explains our history. In Pacs you will be able to know the Property where our mythical Mas la Olana is born.
There we will teach to you why our forms to plant and to collect grape. You will be able to know the reception the grape, the fermentation, and the ample underground diggings. You will take a walk between barrels, you will smell the wine while it ages and you will understand the secrets of this office.
Our red wines are the mark of the house. These bottles symbolize centuries of history, the passion about our job and the attention that we pay to the consumer. These wines cover a wide range, elaborated with traditional varieties of Catalan grape that are already accustom to our earth and sky, .
In Torres, we can also find dessert rose wines, and sparkling. In addition, to taste the result of our effort, we will flatter you with a glass of wine when finishing the visit to leave the Penedès with the best flavour in your mouth.
Return to the Port or Hotel.