Geography Trip to Barcelona and Costa Brava

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A geography school trip to Barcelona and the Costa Brava offers your students the chance to conduct a river study and see volcanic scenery!

The Catalonia region of Spain is surrounded by a number of spectacular and unspoilt natural parks. Field study sites include the limestone landscapes of Montserrat, the volcanic scenery of Garrotxa Volcanic Park and the Tordera river valley, where your students can conduct a river study.

Our comprehensive study booklets and introduction packs will provide all the information you need to enable students to complete field studies and achieve a successful trip, whether at GCSE or A Level.

Thinking about making this a cross-curricular trip? Barcelona and the Costa Brava also offer exciting opportunities for Spanish, business studies, art, fashion and food technology.

Geography Trip to Barcelona and Costa Brava

From

£449PP

5 days, 4 nights

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Suggested Itinerary

Day 1

Morning

Flight to Barcelona/Girona

Afternoon

Arrive at resort

Evening

Familiarisation of local area on foot
Day 2

Morning

Spend the day discovering volcanic landscapes in La Garrotxa Volcanic National Park

Afternoon

Visit to Sant Joan les Fonts - study the basalt formed when lava flow solidifies

Evening

Return to hotel for evening meal
Day 3

Morning

Tordera river study in Montseny Natural Park - follow river course and practise field skills to appreciate the processes at work in each section of the river valley

Afternoon

Free time for shopping in resort

Evening

Return to hotel for evening meal
Day 4

Morning

Visit to the Port of Barcelona

Afternoon

Visit to the Nou Camp Shopping and free time in Las Ramblas

Evening

Return to hotel for evening meal
Day 5

Morning

Transfer back to airport

Afternoon

Return to UK
  • 4 nights' half-board accommodation
  • Airport taxes and passenger duty at current rates
  • ATOL protected return flights from the UK
  • Comprehensive geography educational pack
  • Comprehensive travel and medical insurance
  • Detailed information pack
  • Free staff place ratio 1:10
  • Full use of coach for excursions as shown on itinerary
  • Itinerary planning service
  • Vamoos travel app - giving you access to all your trip documents on your phone or tablet
  • VAT at current rates to tour operators

Curriculum

A Level
  • Characteristics of an ecosystem
  • Biodiversity: flora and fauna adaptations
  • Impacts of climate change on biomes
  • Economical and social threats to ecosystems
  • Sustainable management of resources
  • The water cycle
  • Coastal landscape systems and features of littoral zones
  • Weathering, erosion and deposition
  • Coastal management strategies
  • Threats to the coastline and the impact of tourism
  • Fieldwork
GCSE
  • Characteristics of ecosystems
  • Biodiversity: flora and fauna adaptations
  • Impact of climate on ecosystems
  • Global threats to ecosystems
  • Water and carbon cycles
  • Drylands and deserts
  • Geomorphic processes, erosion and deposition
  • Distinctive coastal landforms
  • Impact of humans on coasts
  • Coastline protection schemes
  • Fieldwork
Key Stage 3
  • Weather and climate
  • Rocks, weathering and soils
  • Hydrology and coasts
Primary
  • Climate zones
  • Biomes and vegetation belts
  • The water cycle

Accommodation

Hotel Gran Garbi

The Hotel Gran Garbi is situated in Lloret de Mar, 300 metres from the beach and 200 metres from the town centre. Facilities include an air-conditioned dining room, luggage room, pool and games area, lounge with satellite TV, indoor and outdoor swimming pools. All rooms are en-suite and have a TV, telephone, safety deposit box and balcony. Students will be accommodated in mainly twin and triple rooms, staff in twins or singles (single supplement will apply). Meals are buffet style with a wide variety of choice available.

Hotel Internacional

Hotel Internacional is ideally located along the seafront in Calella. It boasts a total of 120 comfortable guestrooms. Students will generally be accommodated in multi-bedded rooms, with staff in twins. All rooms are en-suite and come with climate control, satellite TV, telephone and safe. Other facilities include an outdoor pool, restaurant and games room.

Educational Activities

Beach management case study

There are many towns along the coastline to experience the varying management techniques, and there is a chance to compare,

Garrotxa Volcanic National Park

This wonderful national park, just one and a half hours from Barcelona, is ideal for groups to explore and examine

Lloret de Mar – Tourism gone wrong?

One of the main coastal towns along the Costa Brava, Lloret de Mar attracts tourists year round and is said

Montserrat

Perched high in the mountains above Barcelona, and accessible by cable car or train, Montserrat is one of the most

Port of Barcelona

With over a million passenger arrivals every year, Barcelona is one of the most important ports in the Mediterranean for

Tordera River Study

The Tordera river offers your students the opportunity to discover the different processes at work in the different sections of

Cultural Activities

Camp Nou Experience

Home to FC Barcelona, a visit to the Nou Camp stadium includes a tour of the stadium itself.

La Rambla

Also known as Las Ramblas, this long, wide avenue is the heart of Barcelona's shopping district and the hub of

Olympic Museum & Stadium

This stadium was the focus of the 1992 Olympic Games. It is now turned into an Olympic Museum and Gallery.

Park Guell

Intended as a housing development that never quite took off, Parc Guell is an urban park in a northern suburb of Barcelona.

Sagrada Familia

Antoni Gaudi's unique, awe-inspiring cathedral continues to grow almost organically, like a medieval cathedral.

Supporting you every step of the way

Creating your perfect trip

Your quote will be put together by an experienced Tour Adviser who’ll be an expert in the subject area and will know the destination really well too. They’ll work with you to create a trip to suit your group’s needs and meet your learning objectives.

Launching your trip to parents and students

The next step is to get your trip approved and then get students signed up to it. Our ‘Trip Launch Pack’ will help you with this step. This is full of resources (all free to download) designed to make your life easier at this crucial point in the trip planning process.

After you’ve booked

Once you’ve booked, your dedicated Itinerary Coordinator will start work on the finer details. They’ll make sure your itinerary makes the most of your time and they’ll take on most of the admin tasks for your trip (freeing you up to do what you do best – teach).

Support while you’re away

From lost property to properly lost, we’ll always be on the end of the phone while you’re out on the trip. You’ll get a final info pack before you go, as well as access to all your trip documents via the Vamoos app.

After your trip
We’ll ask you for feedback, so we can improve our service. Let’s start planning your next trip too, so parents have plenty of time to pay (and so it’s less stressful for you). And don’t forget to head to our resources hub to continue the learning back in the classroom.

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The organisation of the trip was first class. Communication was quick and effective. The trip itself was excellent...Barcelona is a great city and there is so much to see. Four days was not long enough. We will be using Halsbury for all our future travel.

Oxted School, April 2024

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