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Tarragona Cuisine:

Excellent local produce, like calots (which are long and tender sweet onions) are the main ingredients of traditional dishes like leeks in Roman vinaigrette and calçotada, which is made by roasting the calçots, letting the outer layers burn and then dipping the inner layers of the bulb, which become white and soft, in an original sauce called salvitxada.

The amanidas are simple salads made with lettuce, tomato, curly endive, bell peppers, celery, etc. "Illustrated" salads are made with white or black Catalan sausage, hard-boiled egg, anchovies, fried bacon, cured ham and locally-grown nuts, always dressed with a good arbequina olive oil from Baix Ebre or Siurana.

Rice casserole, rossejat (oven-baked rice or pasta dish) and black rice (made with squid in its ink), plus rice dishes made with fish, vegetables, chicken or rabbit, make up an excellent repertoire to choose from, all with the excellent quality of the rice from Delta del Ebro.

About the Area

Tarragona's position, right on the Costa Daurada, invites you to tour a coast of calm, shallow waters, ideal for families with small children and with some excellent golden-hued beaches.

Places like Calafell, Torredembarra and Altafulla combine historic buildings with a large number of holiday accommodation on the shores of the Mediterranean.  Towns like Salou and Cambrils and the Delta del Ebro Natural Park, beside clear waters, also offer a famous culinary tradition and beautiful protected areas. The theme park of Port Aventura is nearby.  You can also visit the Iberian village of Moleta del Remei, declared an historic-artistic monument, in the municipality of Les Cases d´Alcanar.  In addition, to the cultural attractions, the area is popular for low environmental impact sports and all kinds of activities in the water.

Inland, the province offers the important monumental site formed by the Modernist buildings of the Plaza de Prim and the Casa Navás in Reus.  Declared an historic-artistic site because of its medieval, Baroque, Renaissance and Modernist architecture, Tortosa is another popular destination for visitors. 

Its Parador de Turismo, the castle of Zuda (or Suda), is a National Monument and an exceptionally good choice of a place to stay in the fertile valley of the Ebro.

Meanwhile, the Cistercian Monastery Route, takes you to get to know the monasteries of Santes Creus and Poblet in the province of Tarragona, the latter declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

You can continue this unusual tour into the province of Lleida, at the Vallbona de les Monges monastery.

Attractions

Museo Nacional Arquelógic -  Frescoes, mosaics, statues and utensils dating from the 2nd Century BC are on display here.  Admission fees to this museum also gives you access to Museo i Necrópolis Paleocristians, an old Christian burial site.

Museo de la Romanitat - This museum incorporates the Roman Circus where chariot races were once held, with the Pretori, the governor´s house, which dates from the 1st Century BC.  According to rumour this is the house were Pontius Pilate was born.

Pont del Diable (Devil´s Bridge) - An amazingly well-preserved Roman aqueduct, worth visiting.

 

 

Placed to 4 km from Reus's city and 13 km from Tarragona, the airport direction is in the highway CN-420 Tarragona. There turns out to be easy from this point the access to the A-7 (highway).

It is located to a step of the principal urban centers of the Costa Dorada.
It relies on a high number of international flights: England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany and Holland, Majorca. The building have a not monitored parking, cafe - restaurant,  waiting room, shops, medical  services attention, police, several offices of rent of cars, change of currency and an office of information.