9 departure cities
What each city has within reach for the pilar long weekend, picked for what opens, is held or is at its best those days. Choose your city.
Getaways from Badajoz for the Hispanidad long weekend: the Monfragüe deer rut, the 12 October festival in Guadalupe, Lisbon and its coast in autumn and the Ambroz chestnut grove.
Four getaways with a night away and four day trips from Barcelona for the October long weekend: vineyards changing colour, fantasy cinema in Sitges, the first mushrooms and castles.
Four getaways with a night away and three day trips from Girona for 12 October, the Pilar and National Day: the Penedès and Priorat after the harvest, the Cité in the canal's last month, Rupit, Montsoriu with chestnuts, Ullastret and Montserrat from above.
Four getaways with a night away and three day trips from Lleida for 12 October, the Pilar and National Day: Guara with the warm water of late summer, the Lakes Train in its last month, the Priorat after the harvest and the Montsec sky at dusk.
Four getaways with a night away and three day trips from Madrid for 12 October, the Pilar and National Day: the end of the grape harvest, the last days of the deer rut, autumn in the Arlanza and monuments open free.
Three getaways with a night away and five day trips from Manresa for the Pilar, the Hispanidad long weekend: the Collsacabra cliffs, the Cité of Carcassonne, the volcanoes of Olot and the first autumn in the Berguedà and the Montseny.
Getaways from Pamplona for the Hispanidad long weekend: the Rioja grape harvest, Ordesa with its first ochres, Burgos, Silos and the Arcachon bay without crowds.
Getaways from San Sebastián for the Hispanidad long weekend: Lapurdi on a French working day, harvest in the Sonsierra and Haro, the Matarraña and Ordesa in autumn.
Three getaways with a night away and four day trips from Tarragona for 12 October, the Pilar and National Day: the Priorat vines as they begin to change colour, the Siurana reservoir, Guara and Añisclo in their autumn, the Parrizal without heat, the Codorníu cellars and the top of Montserrat.
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