5 departure cities
What each city has within reach for the diada long weekend, picked for what opens, is held or is at its best those days. Choose your city.
Eight getaways for 11 September from Barcelona: the grape harvest, rice nearly ready to cut, the warmest sea of the year and destinations outside Catalonia that work that day.
Three getaways with a night away and four day trips from Girona for 11 September, the Diada: the Penedès, Empordà and Priorat harvest, the medieval Empordà as calm returns, Besalú and Castellfollit, and Montserrat on horseback before autumn.
Four getaways with a night away and three day trips from Lleida for 11 September, the Diada: the harvest in Escaladei and the Penedès, the end of summer at the Andorran lakes, Guara on a working day in Aragon, the return of the historic train and Cardona castle.
Three getaways with a night away and five day trips from Manresa for Catalonia's National Day: the Penedès and Empordà vineyards at the end of the grape harvest, the Siurana reservoir and the Berguedà before autumn.
Three getaways with a night away and four day trips from Tarragona for 11 September, the Diada: the end of summer in the high mountains, from the Tristaina lakes to Añisclo and Núria, the Penedès harvest, Siurana kayaking, the Coll de la Creueta and Montserrat on horseback.
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