Unique Places in Catalunya

In the county of "Terra Alta" (highlands, in catalan), there's a little village having a very specyal beauty: Horta de Sant Joan or Horta d'Ebre. The landscape, with the mountains of "Besseit" in the back, is really amazing.

Prades is a little village of 500 inhabitants in a quite inexplored zone of Catalonia, between the Priorat and the Conca de Barberà. It has a very peculiar feature. All the buildings are builded in red stone, a very plentiful kind of stone in this area. The walls are very beautiful, and it has a very charmer squarre with a known fountein in.

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Siurana is a small and very old village located high in the mountains of Priorat. It's only a few houses and the old church. The views there are extremely beautiful. We were very glad we decided to go there. Very few tourists, you can just walk around and enjoy the beauty.

They say they produce unique olive oil there also named Siurana, but it was not on sale in a local small shop for some reason. Maybe it was not the right time of the year.

We went there on a rented car. You took road C-242 to Cornudella De Montsant and then turn to Siurana. The mountain road is not hard at all if the weather is good.

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when hiking the mountains you can take advantage of the ancient watering holes that has been killing the thirst of the hiking crowds for centuries.
the water from these places is also a lot tastier than what you get in bottles.

The placard reads, roughly (and my thanks to Isabella once again) "Remember their Courage and Sacrifice" and seems to indicate that the honorees of the memorial were from a given unit of Carlist soldiers which ahd been raised in the area.

For the most part, Catalonia sided with the royalists during the Spanish Civil War. That is to say they lost, a fact that would have consequences for Catalonia through many years to come. A full examination of Catalonian participation in the war, or even just a good outline of the events leading to war is beyond the scope of a simple VT tip. Suffice it to say, that modern Spain and Catalonia seem to look with dismay on the outcome.

This memorial is to Carlist soldiers who perished in the Spanish Civil War. Although different people with different backgrounds and political views will disagree, the general consensus is that the wrong side won the war.

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another small and charming location amongst all the others along the golden coast of catalunya. A couple of miles from Salou stands this charming location, wich offers you, a big mall at the center along with a lot of tourists surching for bargains and rememberences from Costa Daurada. At the top a small and charming marina given the place a somehow cosmopolitan look.
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another small location in costa daurada catalunya. the golden coast stretching from south of costa brava to tarragona.this place called la pineda, it's known because of the wide beach that covers about all the lenght of the place, along with a large pedestrian walk. There's also a water slide park if you apreciate it. a lot of tourist offers , hotels and restaurants, gives this place a centre location of catalunya and from there, explore all it's beauty and places.
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