Tarragona
Tarragona is the southernmost province in Catalonia, Spain. The Montsià is an administrative region within Tarragon. It has a geographical variety that makes it a concentrated, very small synthesis of the continent: the coast in the Mediterranean sea, the…Photo: Betty Granjera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Top destinations include Tarragona and Reus.
Tarragona
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Tarragona is a city on the northeast coast of Spain, the chief city of Tarragona Province with a population of 143,000 in 2025. It's 100 km west of Barcelona and has a beach but its distinctive attraction is its Roman ruins listed on UNESCO World Heritage Site…
Reus
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Reus is a town of 103,000 people in Catalonia. The area has always been an important producer of wines and spirits, and gained continental importance at the time of the Phylloxera plague.
Tortosa
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Tortosa is the capital of the comarca of Baix Ebre, in Catalonia, Spain. Tortosa is located at 12 metres above sea level, by the Ebro river, protected on its northern side by the mountains of the Cardó Massif, of which Buinaca, one of the highest peaks, is located within Tortosa's municipal boundary.
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Explore places such as Serra de Montsant Natural Park and Salou.
Serra de Montsant Natural Park
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Serra de Montsant Natural Park is in Tarragona province. The unique landscape of this park, characterized by the footprint of human activity and a steep orography of cliffs, ravines and gorges, offers us a rich natural and cultural heritage linked to the religious history in the park.
Salou
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Salou is a municipality on the Costa Daurada of Tarragona in Catalonia. It is a popular beach and vacation spot with a string of beaches and the nearby PortAventura World theme park.
Amposta
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Amposta is a town in Tarragona, and the Ebro Way of St. James crosses the city. Amposta it's inside the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve " Terres de l’Ebre, Catalonia"…
Valls
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Valls is in Tarragona. Known by the Calçotada food and the Castells recognized as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
El Vendrell
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El Vendrell is in Tarragona. The city is in 2 parts: the old city is inland and ComaRuga is on the coast.
Sant Carles de la Ràpita
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La Ràpita is a town of 15,000 people in Tarragona. It is known for the production of rice and salt, and is also an important fishing port, particularly for shellfish and prawns, and a tourist centre.
Montblanc
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Montblanc is in Tarragona. The old town was declared a Monumental and Artistic Site in 1947. In 1998 the cave paintings of the town were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as a site of cave art of the Mediterranean arc of the Iberian Peninsula.
Gandesa
Gandesa is a town of 3000 people in Tarragona. Land of vineyards, olive trees and almond trees. The Ebro Way of St. James crosses the city. Gandesa it's inside the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve " Terres de l’Ebre, Catalonia"…
Ulldecona
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Ulldecona is a municipality in the district of Montsiā that includes the cores El Castell, La Miliana, Sant Joan del Pas, Els Valentins and Les Ventalles.
Falset
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Falset is in Tarragona. It's the capital of Priorat wine region, a well-known high-quality wine producer region. The resurgence of winemaking in the Priorat region and rural tourism in Catalonia have made Falset a prominent destination.
Poblet Natural Park
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Poblet Natural Park is a specially protected natural area, on the northern slope of the Prades mountains in Tarragona of Spain. The park corresponds to the headwaters of the Francolí River, in the Conca de Barberà.
Móra d’Ebre
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Móra d'Ebre is the capital of the comarca of the Ribera d'Ebre in Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of 5,811. It is situated on the right bank of the Ebre river in the Móra Hollow, and is served by the N-420 road to Reus and Gandesa, the N-230 road to Lleida.
Conca de Barberà
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Conca de Barberà is a county in inland Catalonia, in the province of Tarragona, known for being part of the Cistercian Route and for housing the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Delta de l’Ebre Natural Park
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Delta de l'Ebre Natural Park is in Tarragona of Catalonia. One of the most emblematic birds of the Delta are the flamingos, which are present all year round.
Els Ports Natural Park
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Els Ports Natural Park is in Tarragona and is inside the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Terres de l’Ebre, Catalonia.
Santes Creus
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Santes Creus is a hamlet of Aiguamúrcia in Alt Camp county of Tarragona. The main visit is the Santes Creus monastery, which is part of Cister Route, that links together the three Cistercian monasteries of Santes Creus, Poblet and Vallbona.
Tarragona
- Type: province of Spain with 822,000 residents
- Description: province of Catalonia, Spain
- Also known as: “Province of Tarragona”, “Tarragona (province)”, and “Tarragona Province”
- Neighbors: Barcelona, Castellón, and Lleida
- Location: Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Tarragona” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Provinca Tarragona”
- Arabic: “طركونة”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة طركونة”
- Aragonese: “Provincia de Tarragona”
- Asturian: “provincia de Tarragona”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Tarragona”
- Asturian: “Tarragona (provincia)”
- Azerbaijani: “Tarraqona vilayəti”
- Basque: “Tarragonako probintzia”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Тарагона”
- Belarusian: “Тарагона (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Тарагона”
- Bengali: “তারাগোনা প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “Proviñs Tarragona”
- Catalan: “província de Tarragona”
- Catalan: “Província de Tarragona”
- Catalan: “Tarragona”
- Cebuano: “Província de Tarragona”
- Chinese: “Tarragona Séng”
- Chinese: “塔拉戈納省”
- Chinese: “塔拉戈纳省”
- Croatian: “Tarragona”
- Czech: “Provincie Tarragona”
- Danish: “Tarragona”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tarragona (wılayet)”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tarragona”
- Dutch: “Tarragona”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Taragono”
- Estonian: “Tarragona provints”
- Finnish: “Tarragona”
- French: “province de Tarragone”
- French: “Province de Tarragone”
- Galician: “provincia de Tarragona”
- Galician: “Provincia de Tarragona”
- Georgian: “ტარაგონის პროვინცია”
- German: “Provinz Tarragona”
- German: “Tarragona”
- Greek: “Επαρχία της Ταραγόνα”
- Greek: “Επαρχία της Ταρραγόνα”
- Greek: “Επαρχία της Ταρραγόνας”
- Gujarati: “ટેરગોનો પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tarragona-sén”
- Hebrew: “מחוז טרגונה”
- Hindi: “तारागोना प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Tarragona”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Tarragona”
- Interlingua: “Provincia de Tarragona”
- Interlingua: “Provincia Tarragona”
- Interlingue: “Provincia de Tarragona”
- Italian: “provincia di Tarragona”
- Italian: “Provincia di Tarragona”
- Japanese: “タラゴナ”
- Japanese: “タラゴナ県”
- Kannada: “ತರ್ರಾಗೋನಾ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Таррагона”
- Korean: “타라고나”
- Korean: “타라고나도”
- Korean: “타라고나주”
- Kurdish: “parêzgeha Tarragonayê”
- Ladin: “Provinzia de Tarragona”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Tarragona”
- Ladino: “Tarragona”
- Latin: “Provincia Tarraconensis”
- Latvian: “Tarragonas province”
- Lithuanian: “Taragonos provincija”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Tarragona”
- Macedonian: “Тарагона (покраина)”
- Macedonian: “Тарагона”
- Malay: “Tarragona Province”
- Marathi: “तारागॉनना प्रांत”
- Mazanderani: “تاراگونا اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tarragona Séng”
- Mingrelian: “ტარაგონაშ პროვინცია”
- Northern Frisian: “Tarragona”
- Northern Sami: “Tarragona eanangoddi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarragona”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Tarragona”
- Norwegian: “Tarragona”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Tarragona”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tarragona”
- Ossetian: “Таррагонæ (провинци)”
- Ossetian: “Таррагонæ”
- Pampanga: “Tarragona”
- Persian: “استان تاراگونا”
- Polish: “Tarragona”
- Portuguese: “Tarragona”
- Romanian: “Provincia Tarragona”
- Russian: “Таррагона”
- Scots: “Province o Tarragona”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tarragona”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Тарагона”
- Serbian: “Провинција Тарагона”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tarragona”
- Sinhala: “ටැරගොනා පළාත”
- Slovenian: “Tarragona”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاراقونا اوستانی”
- Spanish: “provincia de Tarragona”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Tarragona”
- Spanish: “Tarragona (provincia)”
- Spanish: “Tarragona”
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Tarragona”
- Swedish: “Tarragona”
- Tamil: “டர்ரகோனா மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “టర్రాగోనా ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “టర్రాగోనా రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดตาร์ราโกนา”
- Turkish: “Tarragona İli”
- Turkish: “Tarragona”
- Ukrainian: “Таррагона”
- Urdu: “صوبہ تاریگؤنا”
- Uzbek: “Tarragona”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Taragona”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Tarragona”
- Vietnamese: “Tarragona”
- Waray (Philippines): “Provincia de Tarragona”
- Welsh: “Talaith Tarragona”
- Western Armenian: “Թարրակոնա”
- Wu Chinese: “塔拉戈纳省”
- Yue Chinese: “塔拉戈納省”
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