Garraf

El Garraf is a territory of unique Mediterranean beauty. A dry-looking place paradoxically marked by water: with a sea that draws a tortuous coastline and an inland landscape that swallows the rain with an unusual thirst. Sea and rocks, vineyards and castles, festivals and traditions, nature, flavors, and much more. Find out!

WALK AND DISCOVER

A landscape of contrasts in which nature is the protagonist. Choose your route! Play sports while enjoying our extensive network of routes and trails.

Discover a unique hiking experience that combines sport and health through the spectacular routes that we offer you. Get in touch with nature and enjoy impressive landscapes while you get in shape. If you are an adventure lover and want to stay active, our hiking trails are perfect for you.

The coast, the vineyards and the Garraf Park are intertwined to compose a particular Mediterranean landscape that can be explored thanks to a large number of activities designed to make the most of the mainland.

Wine tasting, Segway excursions, hiking, Nordic walking, horseback riding or mountain biking, and stargazing, among others.

Going through the Garraf, Olèrdola and Foix Parks is essential to discover the particularities of a protected natural environment. Barren in appearance, with limestone soil, the Garraf Park has characteristic flora and fauna such as the palmetto, a small palm tree, and the Bonelli's eagle, a specially protected species of raptor.

The Foix Park features the river and the picturesque Foix reservoir, one of the few wetlands in the Penedès.

And for lovers of routes, the Walking Garraf proposal, an extensive network of marked trails in which landscape, culture and tradition blend perfectly.

The routes

If you like nature, Garraf offers landscapes and possibilities to enjoy. Tours by the sea, or immersed in nature, will put you to the test making you enjoy yourself to the fullest.

Strolling through the wild Mediterranean of Garraf, visiting the Olivella castle, feeling like an Indian transporting you to the 19th century, breathing the seafaring air of the town of Sitges... all these experiences and many more can be lived while discovering Garraf, the region of Barcelona where you can walk between the sea and the mountains.

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culture yourself

Let yourself be transported by the best collection of locomotives in Europe to the Railway Museum, discover what a museum of the time was like in the Víctor Balaguer Library Museum with works by El Greco, Rubens, Murillo or Goya or an Egyptian room. Immerse yourself in modernism at the Cau Ferrat and Maricel Museums. Or visit the Blue Tower with the Guinovart Space.

Other eras and themes are represented in the Romanticism museums that left a strong mark on Garraf, the Manuel de Cabanyes Romanticism Interpretation Center - Masia d'en Cabanyes, Can Papiol and Can Llopis (Temporarily closed). You can also discover museums of other themes, such as the Interpretation Center of the Americans of Ribes, the Malvasia Interpretation Center, etc.

To learn more about the sea, you can discover it in the Espacio Faro de Vilanova y la Geltrú. Modern art has its best exponent at the Stämpfli Foundation in Sitges.

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On the other hand, you can also enjoy the permanent exhibition of the Clown Charlie Rivel in Cubelles.

The historical baggage and the architectural and artistic heritage of the region offers you today the possibility of enjoying a perfect combination of leisure and culture in Garraf as well. Do not miss it!

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enjoy the sea

With fine sand and warm, calm waters, the Garraf beaches are one of the indisputable charms of the region. Up to 25 kilometers of coastline offer small coves surrounded by unique cliffs at the foot of the Garraf Massif, but also wide beaches with all services.

Discovering the coast from a kayak, admiring a romantic sunset on the high seas, finding a lost treasure, experiencing the excitement of sailing on a catamaran or going out on a boat to practice sport fishing are just some of the possibilities to enjoy the sea in Garraf.

The region offers the practice of activities such as canoeing, sailing, water skiing, windsurfing, scuba diving and snorkeling.

The sailing, nautical and diving schools in the region, as well as some thirty specialized companies, together with the Vilanova i la Geltrú Nautical Station, make these courses, activities and proposals available to all. The territory also has up to four marinas and a complex for large boats.

TRY THE GARRAF

To find our most authentic self, it is necessary to return to the origin. In Garraf there are still people who work with their hands on the land, people who work in contact with nature, to give us forgotten aromas and flavors.

The unique products of Garraf are gastronomic jewels that are grown or found in our region. They are autochthonous and traditional varieties closely linked to our cuisine.

The peluqueta endive, the Punchense snail, the Sitges Malvasía, the espigalls and the Vilanova prawn, etc.

Dishes of seafood origin such as burnt garlic, dirty cuttlefish, a good dorado or the seafood ranch coexist with the best xató, exponents of our gastronomy.

The proximity to the sea is also present in the wines from the Garraf massif, which have a singular personality in the Penedès designation of origin; among them is the Malvasía made with the native variety Malvasía de Sitges. The wine tourism offer of Garraf wines will undoubtedly surprise you.

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Land of Festivals

El Garraf sounds to the rhythm of music festivals in magical settings such as the Masía de Cabanyes in the Vida Festival, Renaissance-style palaces in Son Solers, centuries-old gardens with the Jardines de Terramar, and for all audiences and styles such as the International Festival of Popular and Traditional Music, Tingladu, Nowa Reggae, and many more. A varied, attractive and unique offer in a privileged environment.

The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, the Dona - Art en Femenino, the Feel Chill Experience etc.

El Garraf is a land of Festivals!

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