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Barcelona Ski Season 2015/2016

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Grandvalira Ski Resort in Andorra opened for the La Inmaculada Public Holiday on December 6th 2015

Grandvalira live webcam photo from Dec 7th 2014

Grandvalira live webcam photo from Dec 7th 2014

Barcelona skiing season 2015
After very warm weather in November 2015 Grandvalira in Andorra and many of the other ski resorts in the Catalan Pyrenees Mountains opened for the 2015 Spanish  Inmaculada puente holiday from the 6th to 8th December.

Among other  ski resorts close to Barcelona are now Baqueira Beret (3.5 hours by car) La Masella (2 hours by car and La Molina (2 hours by car)

The closest ski resorts to Barcelona just 2 hours by car from the beaches and palm trees of Barcelona. Read more on the links below

Book 1 day private Ski Tours Barcelona to Andorra & Pyrenees
Skiing near Barcelona

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Best Barcelona hotels 2016

Best hotels in Barcelona 2015

Best hotels in Barcelona

We get quite a few requests for tips about the best new hotels in Barcelona. There are many excellent hotels to choose from in Barcelona, so it’s difficult for us to answer questions.
Try looking at our partner Barcelonayellow.com who have an excellent updated webpage that lists the best hotels in Barcelona and has links to booking rooms. Remember that DayTripsBarcelona offers personal hotel pick-ups and drop-offs for our small group Day Tours outside Barcelona. We don’t pick-up at cruise ships however.

Barcelona Tour Video – Guests having fun!

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DayTripsBarcelona guests star in Happy video

In 2014 some of our DayTripsBarcelona guests helped us make a video version of the hit “Happy” song. 

Thanks to all the fantastically talented dancing guests who made this video so much fun.
It was filmed on locations from our Day Tour outside Barcelona.
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Most popular Barcelona day tours in 2019

Top 5 most popular Barcelona day tours

Which of our Day Tours from Barcelona Tours are most popular ?

Small group Barcelona day tour specialists DayTripsBarcelona.com have compiled their list of most popular Day Tours outside Barcelona for 2019

The Top 5 Most Popular Day Tours outside Barcelona in 2019 were:

1) Montserrat Mountain 7 hour Half Day Tour

2) 3 countries in one day, France, Andorra and Spain Tour:

3) Montserrat Mountain 4 hour early express tour:

4) Costa Brava coast day tour

5) Girona Half Day Tour

Montserrat Mountain - World Heritage site and top day tour from Barcelona

Montserrat Mountain and Basilica with the famous Black Virgin tops the list of Top Day Tours outside Barcelona 

DayTripsBarcelona.com have specialised in highly personal small group minivan tours to exciting and beautiful destinations outside Barcelona.

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Festa Major de Gracia street festival Barcelona

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2014 Festa Major de Gracia street festival Barcelona

Gracia street Festival Barcelona

Gracia street Festival Barcelona

2014 Festa Major de Gracia street festival is Barcelona’s biggest, most colourful and most popular neighbourhood festival. The 2014 Gracia Festival opens on 15th August 2014 for the 198th edition. It attracts about one and a half million visitors each year. It is also award winning festival having been been declared a Traditional Festival of National Interest by the Generalitat of Catalonia and awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi (St George’s Cross). The best time to visit the Gracia festival (in our opinion) is in the evening from about 8pm, when it starts to get dark. The illuminations on most streets turn on at around 8.30 pm and the decorations look much nicer when illuminated. The first 2 days are always the most crowded so be patient and please be careful with the decorations which are quite fragile.

As in previous years, the neighbourhood’s streets will be decorated and filled with activities for everyone, with competitions, workshops, sports activities, concerts and lots more. You can find the top highlights of the programme and maps of the festival in English on Barcelonayellow.com. The Gracia neighbourhood is located 20 minutes by foot north west of the city centre of Barcelona in the direction of the hills to the west of Barcelona.

> Read more about Gracia Festival here

Wine and Cava Tour Barcelona

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Wine and Cava Tour Barcelona

Wine and Cava Tour Barcelona

Wine and Cava Tour Barcelona

Discover the traditions, history and culture of the wonderful world of wine and cava in the Penedès wine region near Barcleona. DayTripsBarcelona.com offers a full day Wine and Cava Tour from Barcelona to the Penedès wine making region of Spain just 1 hour to the south-west of Barcelona. This wine-tasting tour from Barcelona visits Spain’s biggest vineyard Bodegas Torres in the morning where we take the award winning Torres Winery tour with wine tasting. In the afternoon we visit the world famous cellars of the Codorniu or Freixenet Cava producers. Enjoy a lovely day in the countryside of one of Spain’s best known wine areas.

Day trips from Barcelona to Andorra and Pyrenees mountains

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 3 Countries in One Day Tour

Cross two mountain passes – including the highest pass in the Pyrenees

Tours to Andorra, France and the Pyrenees Mountains from Barcelona. Spring and summer is a lovely time to see Andorra and the Pyrenees Mountains. The landscapes are spectacular, often still snow on the peaks of the mountains, blue skies and white clouds. It’s a picture postcard experience. Experience all this on an Andorra Day tour from Barcelona which is about 12 hours in total. This is also called the “3 countries in one day”  road trip crossing three country borders and two mountain passes in one day – including the highest mountain pass in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Your guide/driver and mini-van will pick you up early at your hotel or apartment and drive north-west into the Pyrenees Mountains. After breakfast in the mountains, we cross the border into France and visit a quaint French mountain village with hot springs. Then we drive over two mountain passes to reach the tiny mountain locked country of Andorra in the Pyrenees, where we make several scenic stops along the way to to fully experience the tranquility of the majestic peaks, magnificent vistas and historical locations and we visit the capital Andorra la Vella
See three countries in a day and experience the beauty of the Pyrenees mountains of Spain, France and Andorra.

Read more and book your Day Tour to Andorra & Pyrenees

Things to do in Barcelona Easter


Barcelona Easter Week – What to do and see

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Barcelona Easter Week – What to do and see

Things to do in Barcelona Easter 2014 and on Good Friday. What to do and where to find Easter parades and Good Friday processions in Barcelona. Easter week in Spain is called “Semana Santa” which means “Holy Week.”

Things to do Easter Barcelona Barcelona Easter – Semana Santa

The Easter week starts on Palm Sunday which is called “Diumenge de Rams” in Catalan” and “Domingo de Ramos” in Spanish. Palm Sunday is the Sunday before Easter week. TWEET THIS PAGE

Dates Easter 2014 Barcelona.

Easter is a moveable feast and falls very late in 2014. In 2014 Easter starts on Palm Sunday on Sunday 13th March 2014. There are parades and processions in Barcelona on Palm Sunday.

Barcelona Good Friday – Viernes Santo

Most Easter parades are on Good Friday – called “Divendres Sant” in Catalan and “Viernes Santo” in Spanish. Good Friday in 2014 is on Friday 18th April 2014. Easter Sunday is 20th April 2014 and Easter 2014 ends on “Lunes de Pascua” Easter Monday on Monday 21st April 2014 and is also called “Diá de la mona de Pascua” which is Easter “mona” cake day. Good Friday and Easter Monday are public holidays so most shops in Barcelona are closed, but restuarants and museums are open.

Visit this Barcelona Easter Guide page to read about Barcelona Easter week and Easter processions and traditions.

Small group tours Barcelona Easter.

Easter is a very busy week in Barcelona,so we recommend that you book day tours and private tours well in advance if possible

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Day Tours Barcelona Easter Week

Day Tours Barcelona Easter Week

What is difference between Single-entry or multiple-entry visa for Schengen zone

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Single entry or Multiple entry visa for Schengen

This page explains the difference between single-entry Shengen visa and multiple-entry Schengen visa for visits to Schengen zone countries and non-Schengen countries like Andorra.

At DayTripsBarcelona.com we have a popular tour which visits 3 countries in one day from Barcelona – Andorra day tour. On this day tour our guests travel from Barcelona in Spain to France and then to Andorra and then back to Spain in one day.

Andorra does not have an visa requirements. You only need a passport to enter Andorra. However because Andorra does not have a railway station or airport, the only way to enter Andorra is by crosseing at the French or Spanish border.

Both Spain and France are members of the Schengen zone like all other EU member states. But Andorra is not a member of the EU or Schengen zone.

If you are not an EU or a US citizen you will in all likelihood need a Schengen visa to enter the EU and Spain. Most visitors get a single-entry Schengen visa. The Schengen visa for Spain is issued by Spanish consulates and embassies in your country

On a single-entry Schengen visa without territorial limitations you can travel back and forth within all Schengen countries for 90 days as long as you stay within the Schengen zone. So for 90 days you are welcome to visit all Schengen countries like for rexample France on your single entry Schengen visa.

However, the single entry visa becomes invalid if its holder leaves from the Schengen zone to a country outside of Schengen – like Andorra.  In other words the single entry visa does not officially allow you to leave the Schengen zone and return on the same day – like for example on a day tour to Andorra from Barcelona.

20140306_165641_Richtone(HDR)As mentioned, Andorra is not a Schengen country, so any non EU or non-US passport holder will need a multiple entry Schengen visa.

This is because our 3 countries Day tour to Andorra leaves the Schengen zone when we enter Andorra – and re-enters Schengen zone when the tour leave Andorra later the same day.

On our Day Tours to Andorra from Barcelona, if you only have a single entry Schengen visa, we recommend that you bring your passport, flights tickets and your Barcelona hotel booking reservation, so that the border police can see that  you are just visiting Andorra for the day and also visiting Barcelona.

Officially, the Spanish border police could deny a tourist re-entry to Spain from Andorra with just a single-entry Schengen visa, but border checks are only sporadic, and we have never heard of that happening to any day tour company, and we have never had any problems ourselves on any of our Andorra day tours despite having been stopped sometimes for passport checks.

You can read more about this on the Schengen visa official site here

https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/visa-policy/schengen_visa_en

EU and USA passport holders do not need a multiple Schengen visa to visit Andorra.

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Visit Roman ruins of Tarragona – Day Tour from Barcelona to Roman past of Spain!

Day Tour to Roman city of Tarragona from Barcelona

B4 Day Tour to Roman city of Tarragona

Day Tour – 8 hours
Early Morning departure from Barcelona

Visit Roman ruins of Tarragona. Our Tarragona day tour visits UNESCO World Heritage Tarraco Roman ruins of Tarragona in a wonderful day of history spanning over 2000 years. In ancient times Tarraco (Tarragona) was the most important Roman city outside Rome and on this relaxed walking tour you will see the remains of the Roman aqueduct, the Roman walls, the Roman amphitheatre where gladiators fought to the death and the Roman circus where chariots raced. You will also walk through Tarragona’s charming medieval old quarter and see the magnificent cathedral

To read more about this tour and see photos from the Barcelona to Tarragona tour, please visit our Tarragona Day tour page:

Remember DayTripsBarcelona offers tours all year round to lovely destinations near Barcelona including our popular Andorra day tour.

View all our tours from Barcelona.

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