2004 SIA Spring tour to Catalonia, Spain

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2004 SIA Spring tour to Catalonia, Spain
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Homage to Catalonia

• Pre- and proto-industrial sites in the Pyrenees
  mountains
• Catalonias 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 Catalonias
  100 Elements del Patrimoni Industrial (Marked )
• Barcelona, southern Europes first industrial
  city

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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.

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Saturday 28 Main party fly to Barcelona

• Check in to hotel, presentation of tour, see some
  of Barcelonas non-industrial attractions, visit
  the harbour, relax.

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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 lAranyo
  cotton mill

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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 dAnoia ()
• Masia Bach winery

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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

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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

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Thursday, 4 Terrassa

• Terrassa, Mnactec museum () and Modernista
  industrial architecture
• Almirall brickworks chimney ()
• Casa de les Aigües steam pumping station,
  Montcada ()
• Asland cement works

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Friday, 5 Capellades

• Working cardboard factory St Joan Despí ()
• Capellades medieval paper mill museum()
• Papelera Munné mill
• Stora Enso modern recycling paper mill

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Saturday, 6 Manresa

• Pirelli tyre-making plant
• Stone Romanesque bridge
• La Florida flour mill ()
• La Miralda (), Catalonias oldest textile mill

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Stayover tour Sunday, 7 Tarragona

• 1920s Terramar autodrome ()
• Rail viaduct Masos ()
• Bellmunt lead mine museum ()
• Moderniste wine cellers of Falset (),

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Monday, 8 Priorat

• Royal Tobacco factory ()
• Fassina Aguadents distillery, Espluga de Francoli
  (53)
• Gandesa wine cellers
• Pinell de Brai wine cellers

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Tuesday, 9 Tarragona

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