Blog On Hiking And Active Tourism In Catalunya

In winter, get warmed up from the inside!

There’s a lot we Catalan people may be bad at, but we certainly do know how to eat well. And now that winter’s here, we’ve got many typical Catalan dishes that will stick to our ribs to help us withstand the cold. Each region has its traditional winter recipes, without forgetting some very international classic […]

Hi there, winter!

Snowshoe routes Hey! Winter has come! It’s time to take advantage of the fact that –for now– it still snows in this country and leap to do activities in the snow! Well, it’s true that this year everything is a bit more complicated, but, with some luck, we’ll have time to enjoy what this season [...]

Fia-faia: a unique celebration of the winter solstice

Fia-faia is the celebration that opens the Christmas festivities in the Bergadan villages of Bagà and Sant Julià de Cerdanyola. Although nowadays –and since quite ancient times– it’s fully assimilated in the Christian Christmas, its origin goes back far before the Christianisation of these lands; it’s a pagan winter solstice ritual, a prayer to the sun […]

Lovely rural hotels

Well, since I already bugged you by talking about why rural tourism is so cool and why it must be supported, today I’m bringing a selection of our favourite rural hotels. I won’t get my feet wet by saying they’re the best –I wouldn’t like to be accused of false advertising–, but we know all of [...]

Long live the rural tourism!

Why is it that we like rural tourism this much, in Pedratour? It’s not because we are peasants –although, to be honest, we kind of are–, but because the values associated to it. With this, I intend to go beyond the “sightseeing in the nature”, since rural tourism is much more than that. We truly [...]