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BARCELONA IN DEPTH
Gastronomic long weekend |
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Program |
Day
1, Thursday:
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Pick up at the airport, transfer to the Hotel. Arrival at your hotel and
accommodation
• Gourmet dinner at a
restaurant located in 'Palau de la Musica Catalana', is unique in
Barcelona not only for its extraordinary and exquisite gastronomical
options, but also its excellent location, considered to be one of
Modernism's chief exponents. Its new “creative cuisine,” based on
Catalan-French products is combined with present gastronomical
tendencies and distinctive product elaboration. It offers infinity of
delicious culinary creations, where a magnificent atmosphere is joined
by the best displays of the new creative cuisine. |
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• Return
to the hotel by private transfer |
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Day 2, Friday:
History of the city and Gastronomic walking tour
• Buffet breakfast at the hotel.
• Your specialized food and wine guide will pick you up at the hotel to
start the gastronomy walking tour. The tour will start at La Boqueria,
in the heart of La Rambla, is one of Barcelona's most interesting
markets and the most visited market of Europe. It is a place where you
can enjoy a lively, vibrant atmosphere in surroundings where the cries
of the stallholders and the daily bustle intermingle. It is arguably one
of the best places to get to know the character of the people of
Barcelona, where making a purchase is not just a mere financial
transaction but goes much further in the sphere of human relations. |
Your food and wine specialized guide will
lead you on a walk through the old town, Petrixol, via the historic
cathedral, Picasso’s Museum (visit included) and Santa Maria del Mar. En
route we will stop to enjoy 7 tapas, hot and cold, accompanied by wines:
red, white, Txacolí (typical Basque white wine), sidra (cider wine) and
visit Barcelona's typical grocer's shops, known as “colmados”.
• Return to the hotel by private transfer
• Dinner will be in a unique restaurant in the world, placed in a textile
manufacturer’s warehouse designed by Gaudí. Here we will have the
opportunity to enjoy and taste a gourmet menu based on season products.
• Return to the hotel by private transfer |
Day 3, Saturday: Modernist Sweet Barcelona
• Buffet breakfast at the hotel.
• Your specialized food and wine guide will pick you up at the hotel to
start the sweet and modernism walking tour in Paseo de Gracia. La
Pedrera will be our first visit. It is one of the main Gaudí residential
buildings and one of the most imaginative houses of the architecture
history, this building is more a sculpture that a building.
En route to the restaurant for lunch we will visit other modernist
buildings like Casa Batlló, one of the most singular buildings of the
city. We’ll visit the most emblematic places related to sweets. Casa
Amatller makes a good starting point for chocolate lovers to explore the
city. Marvel at the Modernist architecture paid for by the profits from
Catalonia’s oldest surviving chocolate brand, set up in 1798. The next
stop will take you into the world of the old-fashioned confectioners. |
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• We will stop
for a tasty lunch at a restaurant in the gothic quarter of Barcelona, a
place inspired in the old European taverns that played the roles of
restaurant, space for relationships and celebrations. A gastronomic concept
complemented with a care for dishes with local products of first quality,
with Mediterranean and creativity touches.
• After lunch we will follow the route to El
Born, via Santa Maria del Mar we will arrive to the Chocolate museum. Guided
visit and chocolate tasting course.
• Return to the hotel by private transfer
• Dinner will be at Spai Sucre; only the most
ardent sweetheart should be taken to Jordi Butron's dessert restaurant. For
the dessert lover, it is like entering a heaven. The menu is devoted to
desserts, original creations, nothing to be with heavy, fatting sweets you
find somewhere else.
• Sweet return to the hotel by private transfer |
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Day 4, Sunday:
• Buffet breakfast at the hotel.
• Private transfer
to the Airport and end of our services |
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Program includes:
• 3 nights at Hotel Casa Fuster 5* Monument Hotel with
buffet breakfast or at Hotel Prestige Paseo de Gracia 4* executive room with
buffet breakfast
• Transfers for
2 people with Mercedes E car. For groups up to 7 people Mercedes Van with
driver. For larger groups bus with driver.
• Transfer in and out airport
• Basic insurance
• Thursday:
Private transfer in and out to restaurant for dinner
Gourmet dinner at Mirador
• Friday:
Tapas walking tour with an trilingual speaking specialized gourmet guide
7 gourmet tapas, hot and cold
3 glasses of wine, beer or sidra
Entrance to Picasso’s museum
Private transfer to the hotel
Private transfer in and out to restaurant for dinner
Gourmet dinner at Casa Calvet
• Saturday
Walking tour with an trilingual speaking specialized gourmet guide
Entrance fee with visit to La Pedrera and Casa Batlló
Gourmet lunch at European Tabern
Entrance fee, guided visit and tasting course to the Chocolate museum
Gourmet dinner at Espai Sucre
Private transfer in and out to restaurant for dinner |
Not Included:
• Travel to and from Spain, and Barcelona
• Optional excursions, expenses and meals
• Drinks during the meals not specified in the
program
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Hotel Casa Fuster,
The Hotel “Casa Fuster', which is listed as a 5 star Monument Hotel, has
been created from the restoration of the historic building from 1908
known as “Casa Fuster”, built by the architect D. Luis Doménech i
Montaner, and is situated in the best area of Barcelona, recently
recognized as the foremost commercial and business district of Europe.
In addition to its extraordinary architectural design, it has the
privilege of being the only building to overlook the whole of the Paseo
de Gracia as well as enjoying a panoramic view of the entire city.
Gastronomy
In the incomparable setting of the noble foundations of the Casa Fuster,
in a distinguished, exquisite atmosphere, we offer our clients
an
elaborately designed restaurant and a culinary experience that promises
to waken the senses. The combination of the appropriate preparation and
elegant presentation, delicious yet simple. Truly uncomplicated and
exquisite. |
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Hotel
Prestige Paseo de Gracia 4*
With
privileged views on the Paseo de Grácia, Our hotel combine tradition
and modernity, the 1930´s building conserving its arquitechtonical
values adapting itself to the requirements of nowadays. Each corner,
each detail have been thought to offer the highest functionality
without droping the design. An interior with minimalist and oriental
style surged of the fancy of the architect Josep Juanpere.
In the Heart of the commercial and cultural area of Barcelona, the
Prestige Pº de Gracia is situated close to the best and most varied
restaurants, boutiques and avenues.
Rooms
Spacious, luminosity and the ultimate technologies are perfectly
combined, in rooms thought to offer the maximum comfort. |
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