Tarragona Travel Forum

I have friends that want to spend a week in Tarragona in February and do day
trips that are off-the beaten track. (They're traveling by car)
Do you have any suggestions?

They also said they want to do a day trip to the Basque Country -- I told them it's too far for the day. What do you think?

By the way, what your friends are into? This will help a lot regarding recommendations. Let's see what first come to my mind, as there is plenty of options (all these can be done as daytrips from Tarragona):

- As they have a car, they can squeeze more theier time and visit some nice places inland (i.e. monasteries of Poblet, Santes Creus and Vallbona de les Monges).
- The vineyards, museum of Wine of Vilafranca del Penedes and the Caves Codorniu in Sant Sadurni d'Anoia are interesting as well.
- Sitges and Vilanova i la Gelrtu can do another daytrip. There is an interesting museum of Trains in Vilanova, and the old town of Sitges is lovely.
- There are some Iberian remains near Calafell, as well as some nice castles in the area.
- Of course, Barcelona
- Motserrrat
- Going South to Delta del Ebre
- Etc, etc...

A daytrip to Basque Coutry?? Well, you can tell your friends YES it's possible: Wake up at 5:00 AM, take the highways (to Bilbao via Zaragoza) and you can arrive at Bilbao at midday, so perfect time to have lunch and return. (Basque Country is famous for its god food isn't it?? :-)) By the way, the highway tolls may cost them more than the restaurant!

I've done the trip Barcelona-Bilbao or Barcelona-San Sebastian a few times, you spend at least 6 hours by car each way (and I drive quite fast!!). Basque Country is one of my favourite places in the world, but it deserves at least a few days.

a daytrip to the Basque country, going there drivng or cylcing??LOL!!! just joking..

it's simply no way on that option, unless you catch the first flight to Bilbao or San Sebastian, spend the day there and catch the last flight back. otherwise, it's simply total waste of time, because if you consider it, you could make it... about 6 hours drive, take a couple of photos, have lunch and way back!!

Other more affordable day trips could be:

- Ebro delta,
- The Cister Monasteries.
- Barcelona
- The pyrennees (for me that's goin a little way far, that could be about 2 or 3 hours drive
-Sitges
-Montsant (that's really off the beaten track, I was there, and it's mainly mountain climbing and exploring the small villages which can be really nice)
- Les Garrigues (land of extra good olive oil)
- Penedes (land of wine)
- Eat Calçots in Valls (if they're into local cooking, they CAN'T MISS THAT!!)

Hi, Thanks bunches for the recc. My friends are into out-of-the-way places. They like local music, local food, local handicrafts, visiting craft or handiwork factories to see pottery and such. He plays the fiddle and like little hang-out places to chat and meet locals and see how they live and what they do. She's into architecture. That kind of thing.