Thanks to its temperate climate, with an average yearly temperature of 23ºC, its clean, sweeping beaches with their fine, golden sand and its singular artistic and architectural patrimony, officially declared a “World Heritage Site” by the UNESCO, Tarragona is one of the most important tourism hubs in Europe. Well-connected to Europe and the rest of the peninsula, it offers easy access to two airports– one in Reus, just 7 km away, and the other in Barcelona, just 82 km away– and is also home to a busy, Mediterranean port. Tarragona moreover marks the junction of two major Spanish motorways, the Mediterranean Motorway, which runs from Alicante to France and the rest of Europe, and the Northern Motorway, which begins in Tarragona and runs through to the Basque Country.
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