2004 SIA Spring tour to Catalonia,

Spain

Homage to Catalonia• Pre- and proto-industrial sites in the Pyrenees mountains• Catalonia’s unique turbine-driven textile villages, the colònia• The spectacular Moderniste industrial architecture of Anton

Gaudí and his contemporaries• The wine and cava industries of Penedés and Priorat• The mNACTEC network museum system• Meet up with local industrial archaeologists and preservationists• Live steam train ride, conserved steam engines, water wheels

and turbines• A variety of working industrial sites producing paper, tyres,

cement, wines and spirits and more• A wide selection of monuments from Catalonia’s 100 Elements

del Patrimoni Industrial (Marked *)• Barcelona, southern Europe’s first industrial city

25 - 28 Earlybird trip to the Pyrenees Mountains

• Fly to Barcelona Wednesday 25 and take bus to hotel in the mountains

• Visits to medieval iron forge, early textile works, olive oil mills, early C20 hydroelectric installations, and rural industrial sites.

Saturday 28: Main party fly to Barcelona

• Check in to hotel, presentation of tour, see some of Barcelona’s non-industrial attractions,

visit the harbour, relax.

Sunday, 29: Barcelona

Casaramona textile mill (*) The Gothic shipbuilding sheds of

the Maritime Museum

Estació França train shed(*), opposite the hotel. The last great rail shed in Europe

Born iron-framed market (*) Pavilions of 1890 Exhibition

Poble Nou, the Catalan Manchester, Ca l’Aranyo cotton mill

Monday, 1 March: Penedés wine region Cornellà water pumping station and

five steam engines (*) Catalan National Railway Museum,

Vilanova i Geltrú Cellers Cordoniu cava cellars,

Sant Sadurni d’Anoia (*) Masia Bach winery

Tuesday, 2: Textile settlements of the Lower Llobregat

Rail workshops followed by stream train ride to Montserrat Colònia Sedó mill and museum (*)

Colònia Güell (*) and the Gaudí crypt

Wednseday, 3: Upper Llobregat river

Cercs coal mine museum and miners’ settlement

Clot del Moro, ruins of Modernista cement works (*)

Cercs Central Thermoelectric power station or Baells Hydroelectric Dam

Thursday, 4: Terrassa

Terrassa, Mnactec museum (*) and Modernista industrial architecture

Almirall brickworks chimney (*) Casa de les Aigües steam pumping station, Montcada (*)

Asland cement works

Friday, 5: Capellades

Working cardboard factory St Joan Despí (*)

Capellades medieval paper mill museum(*)

Papelera Munné mill Stora Enso modern recycling paper

mill

Saturday, 6: Manresa

Pirelli tyre-making plant

Stone Romanesque bridge

La Florida flour mill (*) La Miralda (*),

Catalonia’s oldest textile mill

Stayover tour Sunday, 7: Tarragona

1920s Terramar autodrome (*) Rail viaduct Masos (*) Bellmunt lead mine museum

(*) Moderniste wine cellers of

Falset (*),

Monday, 8: Priorat

Royal Tobacco factory (*) Fassina Aguadents

distillery, Espluga de Francoli (*53)

Gandesa wine cellers Pinell de Brai wine cellers

Tuesday, 9: Tarragona

Roman and medieval Tarragona (UNESCO World Heritage); return to Barcelona and head back to the US Wednesday, 10