History and fun

ex­pe­ri­ences

Aware that 60% of the tourists who visit Cat­alo­nia do so as a fam­ily, in the past few years, the town of Roses has a se­ries of ini­tia­tives and pro­jects aimed at pro­vid­ing the mu­nic­i­pal­ity with the nec­es­sary tools to meet the needs of fam­ily tourism. One of them, which was re­cently launched, is the Roses Fam­ily Tour, a new ac­tiv­ity that com­bines the town’s his­toric her­itage and main points of in­ter­est with en­ter­tain­ment de­signed for chil­dren and the whole fam­ily. It’s a fun ex­cuse to take the chil­dren to visit iconic sites in Roses, such as La Ciu­tadella, the Trini­tat cas­tle, the church of Santa Maria, the fish­ing port, the light­house, the local farm­ers’ mar­ket, the can­non on the Pas­seig Marítim and the Plaça de la Pau.

“The ac­tiv­ity aims to com­bine four im­por­tant as­pects: the pro­mo­tion of her­itage, di­verse of­fers for the whole fam­ily, en­cour­ag­ing phys­i­cal ac­tiv­ity, and adapt­ing to the cur­rent cir­cum­stances, which ad­vise doing ac­tiv­i­ties as in­di­vid­u­als or in small groups,” says Montse Min­dan, mayor and the local coun­cil’s head of tourism “For the mo­ment, peo­ple are en­joy­ing the pro­posal. We started it in March and we’ve re­ceived a very good re­sponse from the lo­cals. In a time of re­stric­tions be­cause of the pan­demic, it’s an op­por­tu­nity to get to bet­ter know the place where you live,” she adds.

The ac­tiv­ity, which can be done through­out the year, is free and avail­able in dif­fer­ent lan­guages. It is de­signed as a game for chil­dren up to 12 years old. Ac­com­pa­nied by an adult, they are chal­lenged to seek out 10 points of in­ter­est in Roses by fol­low­ing some clues. When they ar­rive at the in­di­cated place, they must look for the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion plate to be able to stamp the pic­togram on their cor­re­spond­ing sheet. When they have them all, they can col­lect a well-earned re­ward at the Roses tourist of­fice.

All those in­ter­ested in play­ing the Roses Dis­cov­ery Tour game have 10 days to com­plete the route be­fore they can pick up their gift. For more in­for­ma­tion, go to: visit.​roses.​cat.