Enjoy your holiday, incentive or business trip to Barcelona
in a different way. Cooking class, tapas tour and cultural
visits during the weekend in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
During this culinary and cultural stay in
Barcelona you will have the great opportunity to see some
highlights of this European city of astonishing cultural
energy, and we will introduce you to its rich and delightful
gastronomy. You will be amazed and will wish to come back
soon.
Saturday - Visit to the Boqueria Market &
Cooking class
11:00 – 15:30 hours. Our meeting point
will be the Boqueria Market, situated in Las Ramblas, a
famous cheerful pedestrian street with traditional shops.
The fresh market of “La Boqueria” is one of
the most spectacular and nicest food market in Spain. It
is famous for the quality and diversity of its produce which
comes from around the world. It is located on a site originally
intended to be used as the courtyard of the church of Sant
Josep.
We will meet our chef to buy the ingredients
for our cooking class. Then we will go to our prestigious
cooking school, just 5 minutes from the market, and put
on our aprons …….The workshop will last about
three hours and will consist of a complete menu - first
and second dish and dessert - based on regional or other
typical Spanish recipes you may wish to learn how to prepare
such us:
· Gazpacho, a cold tomato soup with
garlic, olive oil and other vegetables (depends on season)
· Spanish omelette, with potatoes, onions and more
Mediterranean ingredients
· Famous rice dish : Paella
· Dessert: Catalan cream
We will finish the class with a delicious
supper based on what we have prepared accompanied with excellent
Spanish wine.
Afternoon free to explore fascinating Barcelona,
with Gaudi´s creations such as the Sagrada Familia
(Sacred Family church) or Park Guell, or see the fishing
port and some of the sand beaches, the shopping street Paseo
de Gracia or Rambla de Catalunya, and much moe.
Suggestions for supper will be given.
Sunday - Cultural and tapas tour in historical
old quarter of Barcelona
11:00 – 15:00 hours. Our meeting point
will be Casa Batllo, an amazing Gaudi creation right in
the center of Barcelona, where our guide will meet you.
This morning we will go for a lovely walking tour along
the magical medieval narrow streets of the Gothic old historic
quarter, visiting the amazing cathedral and its environs
which include the Romanesque church of Santa Llucia, the
City Hall ….. Antique dealers, bookshops, restaurants,
and unusual shops maintain the activity of this historical
district. During the walk, we will have a Tapas style lunch
so you will learn about this famous Spanish way of enjoying
small portions of many different specialities accompanied
with wine or refreshing beer.. Snacking and drinking your
way from bar to bar is incredibly Spanish, and can be lots
of fun. Anything from Iberic cured ham and Catalan sausages,
tomato bread, muscles with “vinagreta”, anchovies,
shrimps stuffed in garlic sauce can be enjoyed as a tapa…just
delicious. End of services.
