9 departure cities
What each city has within reach for the may long weekend, picked for what opens, is held or is at its best those days. Choose your city.
Getaways from Badajoz for 1 May: Monfragüe with birds nesting, Guadalupe, kestrels in Trujillo and, across the border, Évora, Marvão, Monsaraz and Tomar.
Five getaways with a night away and three day trips from Barcelona for 1 May, chosen for what spring brings: daily balloon flights, newly planted rice fields, waterfalls and the first sea.
Three getaways with a night away and four day trips from Girona for 1 May, Labour Day: the Cité of Carcassonne with the canal sailing, the Empordà before the coast, the Cardona parador, newly flooded rice fields and the green beech wood.
Five getaways with a night away and two day trips from Lleida for 1 May, Labour Day: the Pyrenees with rivers swollen by the thaw, the Lakes Train already in season, the Sierra de Guara, the Añisclo canyon and the Matarraña in blossom.
Four getaways with a night away and three day trips from Madrid for 1 May and Dos de Mayo, chosen for what spring brings: full lagoons, beech woods in new leaf, vultures nesting and the Strawberry Train.
Four getaways with a night away and four day trips from Manresa for 1 May, chosen for what spring opens: the Núria valley, the Vero canyons, the Siurana reservoir and the full waterfalls of the Collsacabra.
One- or two-night getaways from Pamplona for 1 May: the Bardenas before the heat, the newly leafed Irati beech wood and Pyrenean canyons with water.
One- or two-night getaways from San Sebastián for 1 May: the Arcachon bay in its month, Llanes, the Mundaka estuary and the Bidart path with a boat back.
Three getaways with a night away and four day trips from Tarragona for 1 May, Labour Day: the Priorat in the week of the Falset Wine Fair, the Escaladei charterhouse, the Siurana reservoir, the unspoilt Irta coast, a Penedès cellar and the Garraf coves.
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