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 Car Hire & Driving in Tarragona, SpainWelcome to Tarragona Car Hire, Spain; available at Tarragona Reus Airport.Tarragona Car HireSituated on the Costa Daurada in the north east of Spain, Tarragona has plenty for you to see and do in your hire car. In fact the city of Barcelona is just a short drive along the coast from Tarragona in your hire car. For an idea of what you might expect to find on a trip from Tarragona to Barcelona in your hire car, visit our Barcelona Car Hire link. Tarragona itself is rich in Roman art and archaeology, providing you with much to see in your hire car. Combine this with Tarragona’s provincial freshness to create a unique blend of past and present, town and country, which is really worth exploring in your hire car. Two of the Roman remains in Tarragona really worth investigating in your hire car are the Aqueducte de les Ferreres and the Arc de Bere, which are located on Tarragona’s and easy to locate in your hire car. Tarragona also has an impressive 12th century Catedral, which you can visit in your hire car. The Passeig Arqueologic and a walk through Tarragona’s ancient city walls, including massive boulders set in place in the 3rd century BC, are one of Tarragona’s most spectacular sights to see in your hire car. The ruins of the Amfiteatre in Tarragona are also worth investigating in your hire car. Built near the beach in Tarragona in order to use the natural incline of the shore, they are also well preserved for their age. Leaving your hire car you can take Tarragona’s Rambla, an elegant, broad walkway down to the sea, which is another key spot of Tarragona. South from Tarragona in your hire car there are miles of sandy beaches for you to explore. Salou is the most developed and best known, and home to the Port Aventura theme park, which you can visit in your hire car on a trip from Tarragona. Cambrils, further south of Tarragona in your hire car, is an excellent fishing port and marina, especially known for superb seafood served in the restaurants of the harbour, which are definitely worth stopping off at of a trip in your hire car from Tarragona. To the north east of Tarragona in your hire car, along the coast, Castelldefels and Sitges are the two beaches closest to Barcelona; they are good on party value but slim on natural assets. One place that is worth a visit while on a trip from Tarragona to Sitges in your hire car is the Museu Cau Ferrat, which has a fine collection of modernista objects donated by artist Santiago Rusinol on his death in 1931. On the journey from Tarragona and Sitges in your hire car you will find long, open beaches with fine sand, clear water and plenty of fresh seafood. Tarragona Reus Airport Car HireTarragona Reus Airport lies about 12km from Tarragona in your hire car. At Tarragona Reus Airport there are short and long term parking spaces, should you need to leave your hire car at Tarragona Reus Airport. Tarragona Reus Airport has all the facilities you would expect, including a bureau de change, shops, restaurants, car rental services and a tourist information desk, which can provide advice on what to see and do in your hire car while in Tarragona. Spain Car HireSpain. To the ancient Greeks, Spain was the land where Hercules’ golden apples grew; to the Arabs, Spain was the ground floor of heaven; to writers such as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway, Spain was an area where history skittered between heroic feats and tragedy, and bullfighters flirted with death in work of an afternoon. Few other places so dramatically stimulate the imagination as Spain, as you will be able to discover in your hire car. Despite the steady traffic from Spain’s coastal resorts, Spain has remained in the eyes of outsiders a mysterious, half-mythical country. Spain’s long stretches of isolation from the rest of Europe began with Spain’s peninsular geography and were underscored by history. 700 years of Moorish occupation, were followed by a powerful empire that colonised the New World, the failure of which led via the Spanish Civil War 1936-9 to the oppressive regime of General Franco, all of which have left their mark of Spain, as you will be able to discover while touring in your hire car. However years of isolations for Spain has made it far from homogeneous. Spain embraces four languages and around seven dialects, and climate ranges go from the Subtropical south, sweet with its mangos ,and hibiscus, to the emerald north, with its gorse and heather and plunging fjords, providing you with so much choice of country side to investigate while touring Spain in your hire car. During your trip to Spain you will find some constants while in your hire car. One is light, the glorious sunshine that northern Europeans flock to bask in; but don’t make a mistake of just lying by the pool while, with so much to see and do, take advantage of the glorious light to tour the sights in your hire car. The other constant is a tremendous vitality, which you can observe in cafes and strolling Sunday evening crowds, in haughty urbanites and exuberant fiesta crowds while touring Spain in your hire car. Spain covers an area of 194,885 square miles (504,880sq km) with its capital, Madrid, situated almost in the centre. The Kingdom of Spain is a constitutional monarchy under King Juan Carlos I of the House of Bourbon, which has been on the Spanish throne since the death of Franco in 1975. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions, each with its own legislature. Spain is a member of the European Union, accepting the euro as its currency in 2002; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Foreign motorists must have either an international driving licence from their country of origin and this also applies when using a hire car, so make sure your driving licence is packed before you leave for Spain. Spain has about 195,850 miles (317,000km) of highway for you to explore in your hire car; however only a few thousand kilometres of them are fast, convenient and relatively safe motorways. There are toll fees payable if using the modern motorways in your hire car while, which have rest areas, bars and service stations, and roadside telephones are also places at convenient intervals, to enable you to call for assistance in the case of emergency or breakdown in your hire car. The speed limits while driving in your hire car are 120kph (75mph) on motorways, 100kph (60mph) on all other roads and 60kph (35mph) when driving through cities and towns. In Spain seatbelts must be worn by the driver and all passengers in your hire car, and your hire car should be quipped with a spare set of head and rear-light bulbs or you could face a penalty fine. To hire ca car you have to be at least 19 years of age with either an international licence or a valid licence from your own country. With so much varied countryside around Spain it’s recommended to have a hire car to really be able to explore Spain’s full potential without having to worry about public transport. A hire car will also enable you to investigate the more remote areas of Spain where public transport may not be readily available. Catalonia region Car HireCovering the area from the Pyrenees in the north of Spain to the Mediterranean in the east of Spain and the Ebre valley in the south west of Spain, the region of Catalonia offers diverse scenery and attractions to discover in your hire car while. Catalonia appears to have everything for you to see in your hire car while: rocky coasts, sandy beaches, lush plains, steppe, foothills and high sierra, all within a couple of hours of the major European metropolis of Barcelona in your hire car. There are historic cities and towns, tiny fishing villages, mountain hamlets, some 1,000 Romanesque chapels, Roman bridges, centuries-old farmhouses, vineyards, wheat fields, orchards, trout streams and wild boar, all to discover in your hire car driving around the Catalonia region of Spain. Catalonia’s 12,320 square miles (31,910sq km) comprise 6% of Spain’s share of the Iberian peninsula, and are divided into four provinces that you can explore in your hire car, Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. But the most obvious components of Catalonia for you to investigate in your hire car are the Mediterranean coast of the Costa Brava, the Pyrenees and the interior.
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