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TARRAGONA 360 LANDSCAPE VIEW

Tarragona 360 spectacular landscape view shows the beauty of the ancient Roman city on the Mediterranean Sea from above This magnificent Tarragona 360 view was created from four different landscape images taken with a Samsung Galaxy smartphone. The pictures were then merged together and edited with Photoshop to match the points of the various edges. The shots were taken in a not-unusual…

TARRAGONA ENAMORA: WONDERS OF TARRAGONA (video)

The wonders of Tarragona, World Heritage UNESCO Site in Catalonia, Spain, in a 2-minute video Tarragona was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on November 30th of 2000, but since its very old days, it has never stopped to impress and amaze. It’s time to pay a tribute to the oldest Roman settlement on the Iberian Peninsula (what is now Catalonia, Spain), that…

CALLE COMTE – TARRAGONA

Discovering Calle Comte walking through the stylish pillars designed by artists in Tarragona In the upper Part of Tarragona there is a small street called Calle Comte / Carrer De Comte, often called Pilon’s Street. Why is it so popular? It has something really special: 76 colourful pillars brightly painted every year by different artists. Here you can see the…

HALLOWEEN ERASMUS PARTY

Having a great Halloween Erasmus Party with monsters mummies and morons Halloween Erasmus Party: Halloween party has never been so funny! Even if you have always been the reluctant one about dressing up or wearing a costume for Halloween, you would end up as a mummy. That’s exactly what happened to an Egyptian guy, too…

PORTAVENTURA AMUSEMENT PARK, SALOU

Experiencing PORTAVENTURA with the highest and fastest rollercoaster in Europe PortAventura is an amusement park on the seaside in Salou, down south Tarragona (Catalunya – Spain). It features five theme areas based on civilizations (Mediterrània, Far West, México, China and Polynesia), one theme area based on Sesame Street, a water park, and currently a new area…

SANTA TECLA! VISCA TARRAGONA!

Tarragona’s awesome feast including fireworks, music, giants and traditions As one of the most popular feast in Catalunya, Santa Tecla is an astonishing feast that brings everybody in the streets of Tarragona for 10 days since 1321, year in which the relic of the arm of the Saint got into the city. In those crowded days, you simply…

30-AGO : ARRIVING IN TARRAGONA

Moving to the place I now call my second home. Let’s first say that I didn’t wait too long to enter the Spanish mentality in Barcelona. Anyway, after having spent my first 3 days in Barcelona at my friend’s place, it was time for me to move on to my real destination, Tarragona….