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Wine cathedrals tour

Visit Catalonia’s beautiful Art Nouveau wine cooperatives.

Price
From €360 per person from Barcelona. Please contact us for a quote. Prices vary according to group size and your location.
Duration
8 hours
Location
Barcelona
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Wine cathedrals tour with lunch

This wine tour unique to Catalonia takes you to the region of Tarragona to explore Catalonia’s wine cathedrals and enjoy some of their produce. These spectacular buildings are cooperative wine cellars built in the early 1900s in the Art Nouveau style of Catalan modernism by Gaudi’s contemporaries, such as Cesar Martinell.

The wine tour takes you to three wine cathedrals; Pinell de Brai and Gandesa in the Terra Alta appellation and Falset in the Priorat appellation. At each wine cathedral, you have a guided tour explaining their history and function that’s followed by a wine tasting of their best wines.

Pinell de Bria also has an excellent restaurant attached which is where you have a table booked for a relaxed lunch, paired with local wines. After lunch, it’s on to Falset, the capital of the Priorat region to see the final cooperative of the day.

    • We pick you up at your hotel for the drive down to Tarragona

    • You have a guided tour with wine tasting at each of the three wine cooperatives

    • Your first stop is the wine cooperative of Gandesa in the Terra Alta D.O.

    • Next we take you to Pinell de Brai, probably the most iconic of the three wine cathedrals

    • You have a leisurely lunch at the Pinell de Brai winery

    • After lunch it's on to Falset to see the third wine cathedral, before returning to Barcelona

  • An Art Nouveau homage to wine

    Built with high ceilings and a nave big enough to house the cooperatives’ large-scale fermentation tanks, it’s the dimensions and form of the buildings that gave the wine cathedrals their name. But what makes these buildings special is the beauty of their structure, typically of fine parabolic brickwork arches and neo-gothic windows. This combined with their details of decorated ceramic tiles makes them fine monuments to the god Bacchus!

    See our other wine tours

    Let us know if you would like to spend a couple of days exploring the three wine regions of Tarragona – Priorat, Terra Alta, and Monsant. See our wine tours in Catalonia page for more details. Or see our Priorat Wine tour which can also be a day trip from Barcelona or part of a longer stay. And if sparkling wines are more your thing have a look at our Penedes cava tour from Barcelona.

A fantastic wine tour of the Priorat

Huge thank you to Anthony for a fantastic wine tour of the Priorat. We booked everything with very little notice and Anthony was very communicative and was able to book a fantastic winery that we did not have on our original list. The schedule was also flexible during the day itself and with some extras that really completed the experience. I highly recommend booking through them!


Costas T

December, 2024

By far the best wine tour I've been on

We recently did a full day Penedes tour with Anthony and it was one of the highlights of our trip to Spain! We specifically wanted to explore the smaller, higher quality cava wineries and Anthony put together a visit to 3 very special producers. For lunch, we had a fantastic 3 course meal at a lovely restaurant with great views. It was by far the best winery tour I've had. I would recommend Barcelona Inside & Out to anyone wanting a special day out at beautiful wineries.

Denise S

December, 2024

Awesome wine tour of the Priorat

Anthony planned an awesome wine tour of Priorat for my friend and I in November 2024. He suggested a great list of top wineries for us to pick from and made sure they all fit our very tight schedule. He was so thoughtful throughout our trip making sure all of our needs were met. The winery visits were delightful and the lunch was really delicious. We had such a great time!

Hillary Song

November, 2024

Incredible organisation and knowledge

Anthony was able to take us to the best wine producers and restaurants in the Priorat region. He organised everything incredibly well and his flexibility, knowledge, professionalism and hospitality made our tour an amazing and unforgettable experience. Cannot recommend him and Barcelona Inside and Out enough!

Nikolai Dalli

April, 2022
Price
From €360 per person from Barcelona. Please contact us for a quote. Prices vary according to group size and your location.
Duration
8 hours