{"id":2691,"date":"2018-06-13T06:10:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2019-03-14T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T19:43:33","slug":"tarragona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/tarragona\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarragona"},"content":{"rendered":"

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W<\/span><\/span>e\u2019ve ended the Spain trip on a beach note.\u00a0 Valencia was the start of this and Sitges will be the end.\u00a0 In between was a nice 4 days in Tarragona.\u00a0 In hindsight, it would have been better to spend more time there and less in Valencia, but you don\u2019t know what you don\u2019t know.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Statue of human Castellers –\u00a0 Rambla Nova \/ Main street Tarragona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The trek to Tarragona was easy although the train ride took us through the back end of Valencia, lots of abandoned buildings, dock and port infrastructure, and general run-downiness.\u00a0 Not what the tourists are seeing on the other side.\u00a0 The Spanish train system was fast and efficient as usual, and we arrived in Tarragona in good time.\u00a0 It was hot but being right on the Mediterranean made it seem cooler and the walk to the new place was very pleasant.\u00a0 It reminded us of Tavira in that the airBnB was a little out of town and to get there we had to walk along stretches of highway with no sidewalks.\u00a0 But we made it in one piece and the accommodation and the hosts, were fabulous.\u00a0 The ground floor suite had a lovely private terrace\/garden and overlooked the ocean which was essentially just across the street.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Our private terrace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beach across the street<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Trail to the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since we are winding down, we hadn\u2019t planned on doing a whole lot besides getting the groceries.\u00a0 Tarragona is an old Roman settlement with tons of long beaches, so that pretty much set up the agenda for us right there. \u00a0We needed to get some transportation details sorted out and day one was in town checking out all the Roman stuff complete with old amphitheaters, crumbling walls, aqueducts, the Pretorium (Tower), the Necropolis, and the Roman circus.\u00a0 A lot of the relics we did not see, as they are out of town and we needed a car.\u00a0 And of course, there\u2019s a really nice gothic cathedral to see as well.\u00a0 Tarragona is a world heritage site and suffice it to say there are a lot of interesting things to see.\u00a0 The port city has no real founding date, but best guesses are sometime before 5th<\/sup> century BC and some of the old wall foundations pre-date the Romans.\u00a0 Definitely worth visiting.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Cathedral of Tarragona is a Roman Catholic church built on a site previously occupied by a Roman temple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Roman amphitheater (Wiki image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And if you are into beaches, also definitely worth visiting.\u00a0 Day two and three were beach days and a nice change from the constant walking and relic touring.\u00a0 We found the beaches clean (unlike Valencia where the beach seemed to be covered in cigarette butts), not too crowded, and very relaxed (aka, clothing optional).\u00a0 Both days were hot, and the ocean was warm, salty, clear, and inviting and while I did mention earlier about never, ever swimming in the ocean, it was just too damn nice not to.\u00a0 Live a little, I say.\u00a0 Screw the sunblock, get a burn, swim with the sharks.\u00a0 Seriously, could have used more time there.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve ended the Spain trip on a beach note.\u00a0 Valencia was the start of this and Sitges will be the end.\u00a0 In between was a nice 4 days in Tarragona.\u00a0 In hindsight, it would have been better to spend more time there and less in Valencia, but you don\u2019t know what you don\u2019t know. The trek to Tarragona was easy although the train ride took us through the back end of Valencia, lots of abandoned buildings, dock and port infrastructure, and general run-downiness.\u00a0 Not what the tourists are seeing on the other side.\u00a0 The Spanish train system was fast and efficient as usual, and we arrived in Tarragona in good…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelblog.lewington.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}