The Catalan Tourist Board, to celebrate this event and the relationship with Italy, launched an emotional video lasting a few minutes as a positive message of sharing and thanks towards Italian tourists. It was supposed to be July 1st, but by anticipating the restart by 10 days, Catalonia, the first region in Spain for international arrivals, is finally ready to welcome tourists. The list of places that can be visited starting from June 21st is extensive, thanks to preparations that began weeks ago with a strategy to welcome tourists in complete safety and to the 20 prevention protocols that touch on every aspect of the tourist panorama.
In addition to the wonderful beaches and well-equipped campsites, the cities are also starting to restart. Barcelona is reopening its museums and from June 21st tourists will already be able to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) and the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), as well as the Design Museum and the Picasso Museum. Ready to receive visitors also Center of Contemporary Culture (CCCB), one of the most visited cultural spaces in Barcelona with temporary audiovisual, photographic and contemporary art world exhibitions; and the Montjuïc Castle, the ancient fortification that dominates the Montjuïc hill.
Football lovers will not be left empty-handed: immediately ready to visit the Camp Nou, one of the temples of world football, with the team museum Barcelona.
Instead, to see the two modernist masterpieces of Antoni Gaudí, Park Güell e Casa Milà-La Pedrera, we will have to wait until July 1st and 15th respectively.
But Catalonia is not alone Barcelona. In Costa Brava most of the museums that are part of the circuit Girona Museum they are ready to welcome tourists, as well as Ruins of Empúries, the vast archaeological park from the Greco-Roman era in the Province of Girona with more than 2500 years of history, an idyllic place surrounded by beaches and coves with spectacular views facing the Mediterranean Sea.
For mountain and walking lovers, the Catalan churches of the Vall de Boí can be reached and visited, a complex of Romanesque churches built as a heritage of theUnesco from 2000.
Those looking for the adrenaline and fun of Port Aventura World will still have to wait until July 8th.
With the imminent reopening the Catalonia Tourist Board launched a video with the claim “Catalonia is better if you are there”, with which he wanted to send a positive message of sharing and thanks to Italian tourists, an emotional clip of a few minutes which bears the signature of the famous London storyteller, director and photographer Oliver Astrologo, whose travel photos have colored the pages of the most important magazines in the world.
The video, which shows some enchanting Catalan views, aims to reveal the entire spectrum of emotions that the traveler feels when he finds himself in a new or already visited place, but full of memories. What emerges is that the feeling is mutual and just as these places improve the traveller, they invite him to hope and enjoy life to the full, so he enriches these places with his gaze, giving life to what surrounds him, be it the blue expanse of the sea, a green forest or an architectural marvel. Places that feel love, lack and that have remained waiting for us all this time, unchanged and ready to welcome us.
Every year Italians increasingly show their love for Catalonia: they have been 1.213.600 to visit it last year, with an increase compared to 2018 of 2,5%. Italian is the traditional international market that is growing the most in Catalonia and the Italian tourist is the one who, more than anyone else, visits it outside the high season: only 41% of trips take place during the summer period, demonstrating how the Spanish region offers the right destination for every period of the year and for every type of tourist.
How to reach Catalonia after the lockdown
With the reopening of the air, sea and land borders, here is a summary of how to reach Catalonia for those who choose not to use their own transport: the maritime connections with Grimaldi and Grandi Navi Veloci have been active since May while the airline companies resume i flights from the end of June to the beginning of July from the main Italian airports.
Alitalia will fly by Rome; Easyjet da Milan e Napoli; they will leave flights Ryanair da Torino, Venice, Bergamo, Bologna, Rome e Napoli; Vueling, however, will cover all the main airports in Italy.
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