So when guide David Verdejo arrives to show me around Catalonia’s historic seafront city I take him straight to the sixth floor to get our bearings. Surveying the limestone arena below, Verdejo ...
Long overshadowed by Barcelona and ‘booze tourism’ in Salou, this relic-strewn beach town continues its ascent against a backdrop of independence controversy Tarragona, a coastal city that was once an ...
TARRAGONA, Spain — European lawmakers this week started talks on how to solve an insidious facet of the plastic pollution crisis — one that's a brute reality for the Catalan province of Tarragona. The ...
In the new-ish La Quimera bookshop I browse a Gaudi volume beneath a vault that once supported the circus maximus, where rapt residents of the Roman colony of Tarraco gathered to watch chariot races.
Along the Costa Daurada – the golden coast – beach flags flutter, as blue as the sea itself, denoting water quality, environmental standards and safety. The quintessentially Mediterranean climate ...
If the idea of bright mornings, seafood lunches and a city layered with Roman ruins piques your interest, you’re in good company in Tarragona. The city’s compact centre, leafy plazas, and easy rhythm ...
The 1901 Copa Macaya was the first ever football competition in Spain. It featured FC Barcelona and three other teams from the city plus, rather surprisingly, a club called the Aficionados Unionistas ...