Shore Excursions Programme - Options available:
Friday, 27 May 2022
1. Palamós, local fishing village and its brave coast - Half day (6 hours)
“SAILING & GASTRONOMIC TOUR”
Here’s for a delicious experience. Come aboard with us, on one of our beautifully restored traditional wooden boats, and head northwards towards the wild and famous Tramuntana scenery where you will find the real, unspoilt Costa Brava. Experience an onboard local breakfast whilst visiting the Palamós coast.
A show cooking experience at Espai del Peix at the port of Palamós will follow your sailing gastronomy experience. You’ll experience how local cuisine is cooked by hands of fishermen cookers.
Programme:
8:00 Departure from the hotel to the port of Palamós
8:30 A delicious gastronomic experience at Palamós experience
12:00 Show cooking at “Espai del Peix” with local fishermen
14:00 Departure to the Hotel
14:30 Arrival to the Hotel
Photo: Sailing and Gastronomic tour
Duration: 6 hours
Experience activity: Comfortable shoes and clothes and hat for the sun and sunscreen. Swimsuit.
Minimum group of people: 12
20-26º
2. Medieval villages - Half day (6 hours)
“CULTURAL & ELECTRIC BIKE TOUR”
The age-old history of Girona country-side is well represented in the rich cultural and architectural heritage of the medieval towns and villages in the area. (Pals, Peratallada and Monells)
The old town of Pals, called “el Pedró”, is visible from afar on its hilltop location. Pals is classified as a Historical-Artistic Site and offers interesting windows, arches, wells, etc. from periods ranging from Romanesque to the 18th Century. The most outstanding sites include the Gothic church, the clock-tower, ramparts and six defence towers.
Peratallada is the typically medieval fortified village, with defence walls enclosing irregular streets that converge onto the Main Square. The village grew up around the castle, with its elegant Gothic façade, and a magnificent donjon, one of the bests of its kind in Catalonia.
Attractive stop featuring stone houses, archivolts, ornamented doors and windows. The porticoes square is the main point of interest in Monells.
Programme:
09:00 Departure from the hotel
09:40 Arrive to Medieval villages
10:00 Visit the villages by electric bikes
12:30 Lunch in a vineyard
14:15 Departure to the Hotel
15:00 Arrival at the Hotel
Photo: Medieval Villages
Duration: 6 hours
Bike tour. Confortable shoes and clothes and hat for the sun
Minimum group of people: 12
3. Girona City - Half day (6 hours)
“CULTURAL TOUR”
Girona city centre is recommended to take a guided visit. However, it is also pleasant to wander up and down the narrow streets and to let you get carried away by the magic of the Old Town. We invite to visit the main points of interest in the city:
The Cathedral of Girona has the widest Gothic nave in the world. Valuable art works are conserved in the interior, including the 10th-Century Beatus and the well-known Creation Tapestry, a masterpiece of the Romanesque textile art. Also you can admire the Arab Baths, a Romanesque-style building imitating the structures of old Muslim Baths, Monastry of Sant Pere de Gallingants, Church of Sant Felix, houses and bridges on the River Onyar, and the Rambla.
If you’re visiting the Costa Brava and a fan of Game of Thrones, Girona should definitely be on your list of places to visit.
Programme:
09:00 Departure from the hotel to Girona
10:00 Arrive to Girona & Visit to the Old Town and main locations of “Game of Thrones”
12:00 Brunch
14:00 Departure to the Hotel
15:00 Arrival to the Hotel
Photo: Girona
Duration: 6 hours
Cultural Tour
Minimum group of people: 12
If you are a Game of Thrones fan, you cannot miss it
4. Salvador Dalí & Wines. Roses Bay (Full day – 8 hours)
“SURREALISM & WINE FOODIE EXPERIENCE”
Surrealist genius Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres, where the Dalí Theatre Museum houses much of his work as well the jewellery collection that he designed between 1941 and 1970. A visit to the Theatre-Museum affords an ideal opportunity to discover the unique, enthralling world of Salvador Dalí.
In the Alt Empordà county we find several monasteries, of which the most outstanding is undoubtedly the 10th-century Sant Pere de Rodes, spectacularly situated overlooking Cap de Creus with splendid view of the sea below. The church is of a type unique to Catalan Romanesque architecture. The monastery, the church of Santa Helena and the remains of Verdera castle and settlement constitute this magnificent excursion.
Programme:
09:00 Departure from Hotel to Figueres
10:45 Visit Dalí Museum
12:oo Transfer Figueres – Sant Pere de Rodes
12:30 Sant Pere de Rodes “wine experience visit”
13:30 Transfer to Roses
14:00 Roses gastronomic lunch
16:15 Departure to the Hotel
17:30 Arrival at the Hotel
Photo: Dalí Museum
Duration: 8 hours
Cultural & wine
Minimum group of people: 12
5. Roses & the Mediterranean Essence (Full day 9 hours)
“MEDITERRANEAN TOUR”
Roses, the town is particularly popular for its splendid beaches, and loved for its unique location: it is the only beach resort facing west, which means tourists and locals alike get to enjoy fantastic sunsets across the Gulf of Roses.
Cadaqués is a name inextricably linked to the Mediterranean and some of the most renowned beaches and coves on the Costa Brava; to the stunning landscape of the Cap de Creus Natural Park; to the peacefulness of a place that has managed to retain its fishing town character; and to important artists and intellectuals for whom it has been a paradise of inspiration, such as the surrealist genius of Empordà, Salvador Dalí.
Programme:
08:45 Departure to Roses
10:00 Visit the Ciutadella
11:15 Boat trip from Roses
to Cadaqués in a Catamaran
13:30 Lunch
16:00 Visit Port LLigat Dali’s House
17:15 Departure to the Hotel
18:15 Arrival at the Hotel
Photo: Cadaqués
Duration: 9 hours
Experience activity. Confortable shoes and clothes and hat for the sun and sunscreen
Minimum group of people: 12
If bad weather, some changes may be applied on catamaran experience
6. Palamós Port Visit
Programme:
09:00 Departure to Port of Palamós
09:30 Visit Port of Palamós
11:00 Departure to the hotel
11:30 Arrival to the hotel
Photo: Port of Palamós
