Climatic conditions

Mediterranean climate and many hours of sunlight

• Over 300 days of sun a year.
• 10 hours of sunlight a day in winter and up to seventeen in the summer.
• A typical Mediterranean temperature.
• Balanced average precipitation with rainfall primarily in April and May, and moderate average annual rainfall (between 350 and 700 ml).

Geographical position

A huge range of locations

With 32,000 km Catalonia offers a range of scenery that includes:

• 580 km of coastline, with beaches, ports and towns with a seafaring tradition.
• A mountain range, the Pyrenees, with 230km of mountains of up to 3,000 m in height.
• More than 25 nature parks, both on the coast and in the hinterland.
• Architectural styles that range through thousands of years of history: from prehistoric constructions and Greek and Roman ruins to Mediaeval, Baroque and Renaissance churches and castles, and examples of modern and contemporary architecture that are unique anywhere in the world.
• Large cities, medium-sized industrial and/or residential cities and picturesquelittle towns and rural areas untouched by the passage of time.

Transportation

An efficient communications network

• Four international airports and an executive aviation airport.
• A port with regular passenger routes and two ports with commercial goods routes.
• 12,000 km of roads, of which nearly 1,000 are motorways.
• A high-speed train line that connects the region with France and the rest of the Spain.
• An urban and inter-urban public transport network with buses and trains throughout the region, and metro and trams in Barcelona.

Gastronomy and acomodation

A good network of hotels and restaurants internationally recognized

• Over 500,000 accommodation places between hotels, B&Bs, apartments, rural accommodation, camp sites, hostels, etc.
• Over 16,000 restaurants and cafés.