Homage to Catalonia• Pre- and proto-industrial sites in the Pyrenees mountains• Catalonia’s unique turbine-driven textile villages, the colònia• The spectacular Moderniste industrial architecture of Anton
Gaudí and his contemporaries• The wine and cava industries of Penedés and Priorat• The mNACTEC network museum system• Meet up with local industrial archaeologists and preservationists• Live steam train ride, conserved steam engines, water wheels
and turbines• A variety of working industrial sites producing paper, tyres,
cement, wines and spirits and more• A wide selection of monuments from Catalonia’s 100 Elements
del Patrimoni Industrial (Marked *)• Barcelona, southern Europe’s first industrial city
25 - 28 Earlybird trip to the Pyrenees Mountains
• Fly to Barcelona Wednesday 25 and take bus to hotel in the mountains
• Visits to medieval iron forge, early textile works, olive oil mills, early C20 hydroelectric installations, and rural industrial sites.
Saturday 28: Main party fly to Barcelona
• Check in to hotel, presentation of tour, see some of Barcelona’s non-industrial attractions,
visit the harbour, relax.
Sunday, 29: Barcelona
Casaramona textile mill (*) The Gothic shipbuilding sheds of
the Maritime Museum
Estació França train shed(*), opposite the hotel. The last great rail shed in Europe
Born iron-framed market (*) Pavilions of 1890 Exhibition
Poble Nou, the Catalan Manchester, Ca l’Aranyo cotton mill
Monday, 1 March: Penedés wine region Cornellà water pumping station and
five steam engines (*) Catalan National Railway Museum,
Vilanova i Geltrú Cellers Cordoniu cava cellars,
Sant Sadurni d’Anoia (*) Masia Bach winery
Tuesday, 2: Textile settlements of the Lower Llobregat
Rail workshops followed by stream train ride to Montserrat Colònia Sedó mill and museum (*)
Colònia Güell (*) and the Gaudí crypt
Wednseday, 3: Upper Llobregat river
Cercs coal mine museum and miners’ settlement
Clot del Moro, ruins of Modernista cement works (*)
Cercs Central Thermoelectric power station or Baells Hydroelectric Dam
Thursday, 4: Terrassa
Terrassa, Mnactec museum (*) and Modernista industrial architecture
Almirall brickworks chimney (*) Casa de les Aigües steam pumping station, Montcada (*)
Asland cement works
Friday, 5: Capellades
Working cardboard factory St Joan Despí (*)
Capellades medieval paper mill museum(*)
Papelera Munné mill Stora Enso modern recycling paper
mill
Saturday, 6: Manresa
Pirelli tyre-making plant
Stone Romanesque bridge
La Florida flour mill (*) La Miralda (*),
Catalonia’s oldest textile mill
Stayover tour Sunday, 7: Tarragona
1920s Terramar autodrome (*) Rail viaduct Masos (*) Bellmunt lead mine museum
(*) Moderniste wine cellers of
Falset (*),
Monday, 8: Priorat
Royal Tobacco factory (*) Fassina Aguadents
distillery, Espluga de Francoli (*53)
Gandesa wine cellers Pinell de Brai wine cellers