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		<title>Spanish Mushrooms &#8211; scrambled eggs with rovellons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Huevos Revueltos con Rovellons
At our autumn guided Boqueria market visits we stop at the famous Llorenç Pelras stall to buy rovellons.  Here goes a recipe for a very simple and tasteful Spanish dish for breakfast or a starter. The proportion below  serves two for breakfast, and the side-by-side presentation features the mushrooms as a separate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Girona</title>
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Rich in culture, charm, and beauty and located just an hour north of Barcelona, the city of Girona boasts narrow cobblestone walkways with something new to discover at every turn. Visit Girona on a Gourmand Breaks Private Guided tour.  The combination of chic boutiques and modern interiors juxtaposed against the backdrop of an ancient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grape Harvest</title>
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There&#8217;s only one time of year in Spain to come and participate in the  grape harvest and it&#8217;s almost here! Most grape harvests, or &#8220;vendimias,&#8221;  happen in September and October of each year.
We&#8217;re excited because it&#8217;s a unique time for visitors to come visit  the region and learn first hand from vineyards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish Auction</title>
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The remarkably preserved fishing villages of the Costa Brava offer a  beautifully blue and tranquil setting for restaurant visitors who want  to eat the best seafood dishes available on the Mediterranean. But  foodies who want to familiarize themselves more with this valuable  seafood can go much farther than ordering Suquet for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festa Major in Barcelona</title>
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The Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona lights up every year in mid-August for its week-long Festa Major. Every town here has a charming Festa Major during the summer, but as a particularly influential city in Spain and the world, everything about the celebration is done in bigger and more extreme ways. In order to experience the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catalonias Treasures Hidden Away!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We told you so
Well, of course, we know what a finely preserved treasure Catalonia  is&#8211;we&#8217;ve dedicated our careers to it! But just in case you need an  outside opinion to elaborate on the subject, the New York Times (we&#8217;re  fans of this publication too) put out a wonderful article one weekend  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gourmandbreaks.com/blog/news/catalonias-treasures-hidden-away/</link>
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		<title>The Sardana</title>
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Every Sunday, Catalans gather outside in their city&#8217;s plaza to do Catalonia&#8217;s centuries-old national dance, the Sardana. It&#8217;s a very sweet patriotic dance I&#8217;m quite enchanted by. Most of our guides, as proud Catalans,  can dance Sardana so you can ask them to teach you a lesson while they accompany you on one of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catalan Castellers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most entertaining things to watch at the town festivals going on all over Catalonia from May to October are the castellers, or human castle builders, at work. As devoted admirerers of this local tradition, we always take our guests to see them, if available, during our Spanish Cultural Tours. A tradition since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gourmandbreaks.com/blog/news/catalan-castellers/</link>
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		<title>Tarragona</title>
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Once the capital of the Western Roman Empire, the seaside city of Tarragona still has a captivating amount of archeological finds. An amphitheater where gladiators made shows of courage and strength, a circus where legendary chariot races took place, museum of artifacts and archeological passage give visitors a fabulous setting to envision the ancient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classic Seafood Paella</title>
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There really is no one recipe for paella. In the same way pizzas are made with endless combinations of ingredients, paella can be made with various kinds of meats and vegetables. The combination of ingredients below, however, is the most typical in Catalonia and the one we use at our Traditional Spanish Cooking Classes, especially [...]]]></description>
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