A tram through Llobregat

ex­pe­ri­ences

A com­fort­able, sus­tain­able, fast and fun way to do fam­ily tourism: the Tram Route through Baix Llo­bre­gat, which is back for an­other year to pro­mote the tourist, cul­tural and gas­tro­nomic at­trac­tions of the area near Barcelona, as well as of­fer­ing dis­counts to visit the points of in­ter­est close to the Tram­baix tram net­work (lines T1, T2 and T3).

You can enjoy, for ex­am­ple, ac­tiv­i­ties for the lit­tle ones in the Mu­se­ums of Es­plugues (Can Tin­turé and La Ra­jo­leta), visit the Mu­seum of Math­e­mat­ics, the Agbar and take a trip on the train in the Can Mer­cader park in Cor­nellà de Llo­bre­gat. You can also dis­cover the mod­ernist work of Josep Maria Jujol in Sant Joan Despí – this year the city is launch­ing an in­ter­ac­tive ex­pe­ri­ence called 360 –, the Walden build­ing and the St. Just Desvern air-raid shel­ter, the Palau Falguera, and the mod­ernist route in Sant Feliu de Llo­bre­gat.

And all of this is com­ple­mented by great food op­tions in Baix Llo­bre­gats’ mar­kets and restau­rants, stocked with lo­cally sourced prod­ucts bear­ing the Fresh Prod­uct seal of the Baix Llo­bre­gat Agri­cul­tural Park.

“The TRAM Route is in­ter­est­ing be­cause it’s tar­geted at local vis­i­tors, which high­lights the cul­tural, nat­ural and gas­tro­nomic at­trac­tions of the re­gion and, a very im­por­tant point, it en­cour­ages the use of pub­lic trans­port. For the Tourism Con­sor­tium, the com­mit­ment to sus­tain­able tourism is es­sen­tial, and cam­paigns like this en­dorse our com­mit­ment to pro­mot­ing the sus­tain­able con­sump­tion of local prod­ucts and the use of pub­lic trans­port,” says Gemma Rodríguez, Baix Llo­bre­gat’s coun­cil­lor of tourism.

The route has cer­tainly proved to be pop­u­lar. Since its in­cep­tion in 2015, some half a mil­lion peo­ple have vis­ited the route web­site in­ter­ested in plan­ning a day out.

“Its suc­cess is mainly due to the ease, com­fort and sat­is­fac­tion of dis­cov­er­ing unique and amaz­ing places so close to home. It must be said that the dis­counts of­fered by the route for the main at­trac­tions on the route are also an im­por­tant in­cen­tive for the local pub­lic. In ad­di­tion, the route fits per­fectly with new con­sump­tion habits and peo­ple’s healthy lifestyles, which have evolved into a cul­ture of local con­sump­tion, ap­pre­ci­a­tion for local cul­ture and her­itage, ac­tiv­i­ties in the open air and the re­duc­tion of the car­bon foot­print on the re­gion,” adds the coun­cil­lor.