BARCELONA AND SOUTHERN FRANCE ITINERARY
Return to Trips List| TUE: Leave home | |
| WED: Arrive in Barcelona | Leave home |
| THU: | Arrive in Barcelona |
| FRI: Sagreda Familia | |
| SAT: Casa Battlló | |
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| MON: Train to Carcassone | |
| TUE: | Train to Avignon |
| WED: Train to Avignon | |
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| SUN: Train to Paris | Train to CDG | >
| MON: | Fly home |
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| WED: Fly home |
The trip begins with 5 days in Barcelona. Our airbnb is near Placa Tetuan. We can scan our credit cards like tickets for the Metro. Tetuan on the purple line and Arc de Triomf on the red line are the Metro stops closest of our airbnb.
We will visit masterpieces by the architect Gaudi (see below). We can visit Parc Guell. Here is a walking tour that includes Las Ramblas and the Catalan Palace of Music. Here is a walking tour to explore the Gothic Quarter, and visit a 200 year old market.
Txapela Euskal Taberna is a fantastic tapas bar on the edge of Plaça de Catalunya.
We have booked a guided tour for 6:00pm on Friday for Sagreda Familia.
We have tickets for Casa Batlló, including access to the Dragon Roof, for 5:30 pm on Saturday. We can also get to Casa Batlló by metro.
It's a 3 hour train ride from Barcelona to Carcassone with a transfer in Narbonne. Although much of it was restored in the 19th century, Carcassone has been occupied for at least 5000 years. First fortified by the Romans, different residents have been adding to the fortifications ever since.
Avignon is a 3 hour train ride from Carcasonne or a 5 hour train ride from Barcelona, both with a change in Nimes. This will be our hub for exploring southern France. It's less than 3 hours direct by train to either CDG or Paris Gare de Lyon.
From Avignon, it's a 24 minute train ride to Nimes. Here is a map for a one hour walking tour of Nimes.
Arles is just 16 minutes from Avignon by train. Here we can see a Roman amphitheater and walk in the footsteps of Van Gogh.
An excellent day trip from Avignon would be a visit to Pont du Gard with stops at the towns of Beaucaire and Tarascon. It's a 14 minute train ride from Avignon to Beaucaire. Tarascon is just across the bridge. Then we would take a taxi/uber to Pont du Gard and another taxi/uber back to Avignon (20 minutes each way.)
Sitting between the Rhone River and the Canal du Rhone a Sete, Beaucaire has been designated as a protected historic town in France.
Terascon sits across the Rhone river from Beaucaire. Both towns have impressive castles.
St. Remy-de-Provence. The best way to visit this village and Les Baux-de-Provence is by taxi.
Les Baux-de-Provence