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

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