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2004 SIA Spring tour to Catalonia, Spain. 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
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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
Tuesday, 9: Tarragona • Roman and medieval Tarragona (UNESCO World Heritage); return to Barcelona and head back to the US Wednesday, 10