Visit to Vic

We will start our trip to the city of VIC where we will enjoy a gastronomic visit of your choice:

CASA RIERA, where we can taste the famous “salchichón” of Vic; with the 5 senses, as smell, sight, touch, hearing and taste are necessary for this sensory experience. We will visit the dryers and they will explain the elaboration process.

QUESERIA BETARA, authentic artisans of goat cheese, where they will teach us the elaboration process and we can do a tasting of this exquisite delicacy.

After this breakfast we will leave towards the volcanic zone of La Garrotxa. There we will make a small stop at the Fageda d’en Jorda, to contemplate the magnificent shades of its grove

The Fageda d’en Jordàes is an exceptional beech for being seated on a cooled lava wash coming from the Croscat volcano and for being located on a flat land, 550 m (a low and rare altitude for the beech trees of the Iberian Peninsula) . In addition, the beech is surrounded by 21 of the volcanoes in the region of La Garrotxa. We will do a simple 30 min walk to contemplate the flora of the place.

Visiti to Besalú

After a short walk, we will approach the town of Besalú, medieval town of the 10th century, with the typical layout of that century in which, in addition, there was a Jewish neighborhood. Here we will take one of the most magical pictures of Catalonia with its medieval bridge.

After this pleasant visit we will have time for lunch. After it, we propose you an unique and cultural visit such as the visit of the Dalí Museum of Figueres to contemplate the great works of this unique artist; which is considered one of the top representatives of surrealism.es.

After this wonderful day full of culture and gastronomy, in order to end our tour, we will  visit a Winery at Alt  Empordá; where internationally recognized wines awaits us.

At the end of this activity we will return to Barcelona.

Vic and its History 

Vic was the capital of the former Iberian tribe of the Ausetans. in the third century a. C. The city was later conquered by the Romans, this is a temple today. It has been an episcopal seat since the sixth century. During the eighth and ninth centuries, Vic was among the brands that divided the frank forces of the Islamic. 

The bishop of Vic established the “Peace and Truce of God” in the year 1027, this helped decrease private wars. 

During the seventeenth century, the city was one of the first points of rebellion against the center policy of King Felipe V, a conflict that ended up becoming the War of Succession. 

Besalú and its History 

Some evidence of human presence in the municipal territory of Besalú belong to the remains of a small, oval cabin located near Can Barraca, on the northwest side of the current population, which was inhabited at the end of the second millennium BC (1200 – 1100 BC). Now speaking of the center of Besalú, the oldest documented remains are defined in a small combustion structure of the first iron age (650-600 BC) found in the Devesa, at the end of the Santa Maria hill . 

Fageda d’en Jorda 

It is a Nature Reserve that includes a beech forest with unique characteristics in Spain, grows on a relatively flat terrain, formed by a cold lava flow originating from the Croscat volcano, at an altitude that is not common in the Iberian Peninsula for this class of trees, between 550 and 650 m. It has an area of ​​about 4.8 km2 and is full of prominences typical of lava, it can reach more than 20 m high. 

The beech tree is popular because the poet Joan Maragall wrote a remembered poem in his honor (“La fageda d’en Jordà“). At the main entrance of the beech forest, at km 4 of the road from Olot to Santa Pau, where the Can Serra car park is located. Within the forest the use of motor vehicles is prohibited, but they also offer several walking routes and you can rent a horse. 

Dali Museum of Figueres 

It is located 140km from BARCELONA and is the place where one of Dalí’s fantastic surreal works is located. The museum was built from the ruins of a theater and became what you see today, the museum is a bizarre but impressive mixture of the strange and incredible creations of Dalí’s mind. The museum is the second most visited museum in Spain, after the Prado. 

Alt Empordà 

It is located north of the Costa Brava and in the northeast corner of Catalonia, bordering on France. It borders the Pyrenees on the north side, which rush through the Sierra de l’Albera to the Cap de Creus that enters the Mediterranean Sea (east). The plain of the Alt Empordà that joins with the Baix Empordà on the south side and the regions of Pla de l’Estany and the Garrotxa, on the southwest side, is watered by two rivers that are extinguished in the Gulf of Roses: the Muga, east it refers to the waters of L’Albera, and the Fluvià, that its birth is in the Garrotxa. 

All year except Christmas, New Year and St. Stephen

Includes:

• Private vehicle transfer or Minibus
• Visit to the Dalí Museum
• Visit Casa Riera
• Visit Quseria Betara
• Visit Garrotxa National Park
• Visit to Besalú
• Guide throughout the entire tour

• Maximum capacity: 15 people.
• Meeting point: Pick up at the Hotel of Hospedaje.
• It is essentialto have received the reservation confirmation.

CANCELLATION POLICY

1-day tours are cancelable up to 24 hours before.