Els Prats de Rei

A hilltop market town in Barcelona's inland Segarra region, shaped by Berber settlers, Catalan counts, and a medieval battlefield, its castle ruins still looking out over the same high plain they once defended.

A leather-working town on the old Barcelona–Lleida road, Igualada grew from a medieval walled settlement into a Catalan city whose landmarks include a survival-story baroque organ, a cemetery designed by Enric Miralles, and the first civil baptism ceremony ever held in Spain.

Perched on a hilltop above the Cardener river in Barcelona province, Súria's old quarter preserves its medieval walls, narrow arcaded streets, and a Romanesque castle tower in a compact, largely unaltered historic core.

A Catalan town in the province of Lleida where a royal university once doubled the population overnight, its Gothic church, neoclassical campus, and medieval street grid still telling that story.

A medieval Catalan town in Tarragona province where stretches of the old walls still stand, four original gateways survive, and a Gothic parish church holds a 14th-century alabaster altarpiece carved by one of the period's leading sculptors.

A city in Barcelona province where Ignatius of Loyola spent formative years, its old centre rising above the Cardener river on a site occupied since the Iberian age.

A castle built in 886 rises above this Barcelona province town, its Romanesque collegiate church and salt mountain making it one of Cataluña's most layered historical stops.

A cathedral city in Lleida province, its Gothic cathedral, Romanesque sculpture, and three surviving medieval gateways mark it as one of inland Cataluña's most historically layered stops.