Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Tarragona, Spain
Legend
Guided Free Walking Tours
Book free guided walking tours in Tarragona.
Guided Sightseeing Tours
Book guided sightseeing tours and activities in Tarragona.
Tour Facts
4.7 km
137 m
Experience Tarragona in Spain in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in TarragonaIndividual Sights in TarragonaSight 1: Ermita de la Salut
The Ermita de la Salut is a historicist work in Tarragona protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
Sight 2: Teatre Auditori Camp de Mart
The Teatre Auditori del Camp de Mart is an open-air theatre, covered with a candle, inspired by the examples of classical Greek theatres. It has a grandstand in the form of an amphitheatre, a rectangular stage and an orchestra pit that can be used as stalls, in a set covered by a sail or tensile structure. It is located in the gardens of the ancient Camp de Mart of the Roman city. Inaugurated in 1970, it is a project by the municipal architect of that time, Manuel Lamich Fontanet. It seems that the project was inspired by the Greek Theater of Epidaurus of the Argolis, in the south of the Peloponnese, a work of the fourth century BC by Polycletus the Younger.
Sight 3: Camp de Mart
The Camp de Mart is a work of Tarragona protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
Sight 4: Església de Sant Miquel del Pla
Sant Miquel del Pla is a church in the municipality of Tarragona, the current sub-headquarters of the Royal Brotherhood of Jesus Nazarene, protected as a cultural asset of local interest. The construction that can be seen today corresponds to the eighteenth century (1734) with a classicist baroque style, but its origin is located in the twelfth century.
Sight 5: Museu Diocesà de Tarragona
![Museu Diocesà de Tarragona](/static/images/wikipedia/Spain_Tarragona_Museu-Diocesà-de-Tarragona.jpg)
The Diocesan Museum of Tarragona is a museum of the Archdiocese of Tarragona, located in the cathedral complex of the Cathedral of Tarragona.
Sight 6: Sant Pau del Seminari
Sant Pau del Seminari is a chapel in the municipality of Tarragona protected as a cultural asset of local interest. It is one of the oldest and best preserved testimonies of Tarragona's Romanesque. The chapel is mentioned in a document from the early thirteenth century. Linked to Santa Tecla la Vella and with decorative details of the cloister enclosure.
Sight 7: Santa Tecla la Vella
Santa Tecla la Vella is a chapel in the municipality of Tarragona protected as a cultural asset of local interest. Located in what is now the garden of the old cathedral pit, it is a construction that reuses materials from an older work that some scholars have linked to the old cathedral. The data that emerge from a correct interpretation of the building should help to find out one of the repeated questions of the medieval study of Tarragona: the building of the cathedral and the canonical dependencies.
Sight 8: Catedral de Tarragona
The Primatial Cathedral of Tarragona is a Roman Catholic church in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The edifice is located in a site previously occupied by a Roman temple dating to the time of Tiberius, a Visigothic cathedral, and a Moorish mosque. It was declared a national monument in 1905.
Sight 9: Teatre Metropol
The Metropol Theater is an indoor theater in the city of Tarragona, currently located at number 46 of the Rambla Nova.
Sight 10: Monument als Herois de 1811
The Monument to the Heroes of 1811, popularly known as The Striped, is a work in Tarragona by Antonio Julio Rodríguez Hernández, known as Julio Antonio. It is located on a stone podium with three bronze sculptures in the Plaza de Julio Antonio, at the intersection of the Rambla Nova in Tarragona with the streets of Ixart and Cañellas.
Sight 11: Font del Centenari
The Centenary Fountain is located in Tarragona, in the middle of the Rambla Nova. It was inaugurated in 1954 and is the work of the sculptor Josep Viladomat i Massana. It is currently located at the intersection between Ramón y Cajal Avenue and Pau Casals, Rovira i Virgili and Cristòfor Colom streets, where it acts as a roundabout and orders traffic. It is made of stone from Hontoria (Burgos) and consists of four independent sculptural elements formed by the figure of a man and an animal gushing water from its mouth, both surrounded by details in the form of vegetation.
Sight 12: Sant Pau
Sant Pau de Tarragona is a church of the academic monumentalism of Tarragona protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.
Share
Disclaimer Please be aware of your surroundings and do not enter private property. We are not liable for any damages that occur during the tours.
GPX-Download For navigation apps and GPS devices you can download the tour as a GPX file.