Heritage towns in Tarragona
12 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.
A medieval walled town on the Costa Daurada in Tarragona, where a well-preserved castle fortress, a Roman villa and centuries of seafaring commerce have left their mark on a compact hilltop settlement.
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 red-stone hilltop town in Tarragona's mountains, once seat of a medieval county stretching across three regions and birthplace of Renaissance composer Mateo Flecha.
Perched above the mountains of Prades in Tarragona, Siurana was the last Muslim stronghold to fall in all of Catalonia, its Romanesque church and Arab castle ruins standing on ground that has been fought over since the Bronze Age.
Capital of the Alt Camp comarca in Tarragona province, Valls sits beside the Francolí river with a Romanesque-Gothic parish church, centuries-old castle traditions, and the birthplace of the human tower, the castellers, still actively building skyward today.