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Barcelona: Montjuïc to Sitges coast
Barcelona, Catalunya, ES · 5 stops · 80 km (49.4 mi) · about 3 h 16 min driving · 11 spoken stories
Coastal drive from Barcelona to Sitges for beach lovers and food enthusiasts. You'll pass five kilometres of seafood terraces at Castelldefels, wind along Garraf's limestone cliffs, and see Gaudí's stone winery above fishermen's huts. Three hours through Mediterranean beaches and Catalan seaside character.
Photo: Werner Lang (Wela49), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
From Barceloneta Beach to Sitges seafront
The stops
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Mirador de l'Alcalde, Montjuïc
Montjuïc is a hill in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
“We're up on Montjuïc, the hill that watches over Barcelona, and this terrace is the Mirador de l'Alcalde, the Mayor's Lookout.”
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Castelldefels Beach
lunchCastelldefels is a municipality in the Baix Llobregat comarca, in the province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, and a suburban town of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. Its population is 65,954.
“Welcome to Castelldefels, a town of about sixty-six thousand people in the Baix Llobregat, with more than five kilometres of fine sand stretched between the Mediterranean, the wetlands of the Delta and the limestone of the Garraf Natural Park.”
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Garraf Massif coast road
The Garraf Massif is a mountain range of the Catalan Coastal Range, Catalonia, Spain. Its cliffs reach the Mediterranean waters. Its highest point on the coastal side is La Morella, 593 metres above sea level and further inland rises the higher, although less conspicuous, Montau.
“This is the Garraf Massif, a karstic range of the Catalan Coastal Range whose cliffs run straight down into the Mediterranean.”
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Garraf beach and Celler Güell
Bodegas Güell, in Catalan Celler Güell, is an architectural complex comprising a winery and associated buildings located in Garraf, in the Spanish municipality of Sitges (Barcelona), designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.
“Garraf is a cove with mountains behind it, the Sierra de Coma Roja, and its postcard image is a row of thirty-three green and white wooden beach huts.”
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Sant Bartomeu i Santa Tecla
place of worship · Carrer de Fonollar, Sitges, Catalonia
“Here's the image every visitor carries home from Sitges.”
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