Heritage towns in Tarragona
7 towns in this province.
A Mediterranean city where Roman walls, a UNESCO-listed archaeological complex, and a cathedral eight centuries in the making rise together above the sea in Cataluña.
A walled medieval town in Tarragona, its nearly complete circuit of towers and gates rising above the river Francolí, with a UNESCO-listed prehistoric rock art landscape in the hills beyond.
A city where Iberian, Roman, Moorish, and medieval Christian layers stack visibly on top of one another, anchored by a castle above the Ebro that has served as caliphate fortress, Templar stronghold, royal palace, and Parador all in turn.
The birthplace of Antoni Gaudí's collaborator Domènech i Montaner, Reus is a Catalan city in Tarragona province where Modernista architecture lines the old town squares and two pedestrian streets form the beating commercial heart of the centre.
A Templar castle-convent rising from a bend in the Ebro — one of the finest examples of military religious architecture in the western world — looks down over a medieval Islamic quarter whose pottery workshops have never stopped turning.
A hilltop town in Tarragona where Pablo Picasso spent formative years painting and first developed his proto-cubism, surrounded by the natural park of Els Ports.
A Renaissance town hall, a baroque three-nave church, and a disused railway line turned greenway mark this Tarragona town on the edge of the Ports natural park.