9 departure cities
What each city has within reach for the holy Week, picked for what opens, is held or is at its best those days. Choose your city.
Getaways from Badajoz for Holy Week: processions in Jerez de los Caballeros and Cáceres, Roman Mérida, the Jerte in blossom, the Aracena cave and Évora or Lisbon across the border.
Four getaways with a night away and four day trips from Barcelona for Holy Week: the Verges procession, spring snow, Easter song at Montserrat and Easter Monday.
Four getaways with a night away and three day trips from Girona for Holy Week, Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday: the Verges procession, Romanesque monasteries, the Núria Rack Railway, the Rupit cliffs and the Garrotxa by balloon.
Five getaways with a night away and two day trips from Lleida for Holy Week, Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday: the last Baqueira pistes, the Priorat with the charterhouse open on holiday Monday, Mont-rebei, Añisclo, Peñíscola castle and the Siurana reservoir.
Four getaways with a night away and three day trips from Madrid for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday: processions of international interest less than two hours away, Chinchón's living Passion and a national park for those who prefer birds.
Two getaways with a night away and six day trips from Manresa for the four days of Easter: the last snow of the Pallars and the Tosa d'Alp, the monasteries of the Ripollès, Montserrat before the Escolania's holidays and the first walks by the sea.
Five days from Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday: the Volatín and the Angel of Tudela, the Pyrenees' last snow, the La Rhune train newly open and Romanesque in Palencia.
Five days from Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday: processions and Atapuerca in Burgos, Gregorian chant in Silos, Lapurdi in spring and plans near home for rainy days.
Three getaways with a night away and four day trips from Tarragona for Holy Week, Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday: the Matarraña via the Ebro, Prades, the Penedès by train, Montserrat while the Escolania sings, Sitges, Peñíscola castle and the Siurana reservoir.
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