
The
"Costa Daurada" owes its name to the golden colour
of the sun reflected on the fine sand of
its beaches. The
coastal area is sheltered by a very peculiar Mediterranean light
and covers a total of 202 kilometres of beaches, with clear, shallow
water.
From the little fisher villages to the big tourist centres, it offers
the visitors everything they dream to find in their holidays:
quality lodgings, family activities, night life, leisure, sports
such as golf, navigation..., complemented by the big attraction
of the Costa Daurada:
Port Aventura.
A special infrastructure thought out to enjoy the coast is the reservation
centre for leisure, navigation and lodging of the
Estación
Náutica de Salou - Cambrils - Mont-roig - Miami Platja.

The
inland of the Costa Daurada is a synonym of contrasts, with bright
colours playing the leading role: the intense green of the hazel
nut trees and vines, the olive grey and the ochre and brown colours
of the stones of the Cistercian monasteries, all of it surrounded
by the blue colours of the sky.
The inland villages are a true paradise for
outdoor sports lovers:
climbing, hang gliding, mountain bike riding, hill walking, horseback
riding... and they offer the charm of those villages where the time
seems to have stopped.
The leisure offers in the Costa Daurada never end, there are countless
options to spend time doing what you like most. One of the alternatives
with a broad and high quality offer in the region is
thermal
tourism.
The Costa Daurada keeps remains and monuments giving evidence of
the pass of people along history. The oldest remains are prehistoric
caves and simple Iberian villages. The Roman monumental complex
of Tarraco, former capital of the Roman Empire on the Iberian Peninsula,
was declared World Heritage by the UNESCO in 2000, turning
Tarragona
into the second city in the world as regards the significance of
its Roman remains.

There
is also a significant medieval legacy with the
monasteries of
the Ruta del Cister de Santes Creus and Poblet, also declared
World Heritage by the UNESCO in 1992, and villages that where highly
important during this historical period.
In
Tortosa we find samples of the renaissance culture, a
time in which it was an important port, the link to the inland of
the Peninsula. The latest monumental wealth of the Costa Daurada
is Modernism, with the city of
Reus playing the main role,
integrated in the European Art Nouveau Network. Another important
sample of this artistic movement can be found in the wine cellar
cooperatives of the most rural regions in the inland.
The gastronomy in the Costa Daurada is a quality art that
knows perfectly well how to combine the diversity of the Mediterranean
cuisine. The region does also have a large
wine tradition
and has six areas with "Denominación de Origen"
(designation of origin), endorsing the quality of the wines produced
here.
The Costa Daurada is filled with vitality and "fiesta",
and this is the real living heritage it has. There are traditions
that have gone beyond the passing of time, reaching us with a large
cultural wealth, becoming largely attended and open events, allowing
us to build our identity.