10. FULL DAY GIRONA AND DALI (8 HOURS) This visit allows knowing the city, arrival to Girona,. City that has undergone great changes along the history thanks to its monumental architectonic set and the Brave Coast importance as tourist destiny is a city in remains renovation.. We will visit the Call, the old Jewish district, one of the best conserved medieval nuclei of all Europe where we can visit the Synagogue that is now in Jewish school center, we will find the Cathedral, baroque building flanked by numerous noble buildings the churches of Sant Feliu and san Nicolau and the Sant Pere de Galligans Monastery then the Arab baths. We will follow until Figueres, to the Dalí Theatre-Museum, inaugurated in 1974 which contains the amplest work that describes the artistic trajectory of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), from his first artistic experiences to the surrealist creations to works of the last years of his life.. Also there are works of other artists who Dalí wanted to include: The Greco, Marià Fortuny, Modest Urgell, Ernest Meissonier, Marcel Duchamp, Wolf Wostell, Antoni Pitxot and Evarist Vallès, among others.
8. HALF DAY MONTSERRAT MONASTERY (5 HOURS)
The trip begins with a panoramic visit of Barcelona by bus. We will leave the centre and we will go towards Montserrat, a unique natural park in the world, one of the most important museums of the country and the Pattern of Catalonia’s Sanctuary. On XI century Oliba abbot founded a small monastery next to the Santa Maria hermitage. . We can visit its Real Basilica, where is the Moreneta Virgin, roman carve from the XII century, and also we will be able to listen to a choir of "the Escolanía de Montserrat", one of the older music’s schools of Europe.. The Montserrat monastery has developed an important role in the country’s cultural life. The present library hosts more than one hundred fifty thousand volumes.
11. BARCELONA HIGHLIGHTS & PICASSO’S (8 HOURS) Visit to the marine city front, then to the Gothic district where
we will take a walking tour, including the Cathedral, , the Bishop Street leads us to San Jaime square,. We will cross through the King of Barcelona Street where remarkable medieval buildings are located. The bus will take us to the Batlló House, designed by Antonio Gaudí, in the modernist Ensanche district , containing the works of other modernist architects Puig & Cadafalch and Domènech & Montaner.. 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
9. HALF DAY WINE TASTING IN A PENEDES CAVA (5 HOURS)
We will begin this itinerary 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 You will be witness of a millenarian tradition: the wine elaboration. you will be astonished to find the most sophisticated ethnology technique to the service of this tradition, but in Torres they are experts in combining the best thing of past, present and future.. A taste a glass of wine to finish the visit and to leave the Penedès with the best flavour in your mouth.
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