Catalan Tourism Board launch grand tour and announce alliance with FC Barcelona

Catalan Tourism Board launch grand tour and announce alliance with FC Barcelona

Catalan Tourism has announced ‘The Grand Tour of Catalonia’ and an alliance with the world-famous FC Barcelona.

The Grand Tour of Catalonia is a journey that explores the area from north to south and east to west.

This tourist product created by the Catalan Tourist Board (ACT) proposes a multiday road trip through Catalonia to discover its main attractions in terms of heritage, nature wine and food, and encounter its people, customs and traditions.

Catalonia Tourism Board said that The Grand Tour of Catalonia is a tour designed on the basis of the sustainable tourism model that drives the ACT: diversifed and high-quality tourism distributed in a balanced way throughout the territory, allowing the destination to be discovered in all seasons.

The Grand Tour of Catalonia is an itinerary for exploring, discovering, living, experiencing and enjoying Catalonia by car.

It is one trip that includes many trips, so that each traveller can organise it to their liking, travel at their pace, at any time of the year, and choose from a great range of diverse experiences.

This new route is inspired by the journeys taken by young English aristocrats from the mid-seventeenth century onwards, known as ‘Grand Tours’.

These were not leisure trips but educational ones, and for this reason, everything was meticulously planned by their parents before departure.

These tours allowed them to discover sacred sites of classical culture and also to come into contact with European high society.

The project has been jointly produced by the Catalan Tourist Board, the Tourism Department from the Government of Catalonia, which includes the Network of Tourism Offices of Catalonia, and the different local Tourist Boards: Barcelona, Costa Brava-Girona, Costa Daurada and Terres de l’Ebre, Lleida and Val d’Aran.

The Grand Tour of Catalonia is a circular itinerary to discover the essence of Catalonia. It connects cultural icons, natural settings and gastronomic pleasures that define this land’s personality, in both rural and urban settings.

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