VILANOVA i LA GELTRÚ
CATALONIA, SPAIN

The beautiful port of Vilanova i La Geltrú is getting ready to host the first America’s Cup preliminary regatta between 14th-17th September 2024 and the organisers are delighted tio share the site-map for the event. Spectators will be able to see the America’s Cup teams in action from the beach area (7) or immerse themselves in the dedicated Race Village (1) that will feature the live broadcast of the racing and plenty of fan engagement stalls and stands plus hospitality concessions. Shoreside, the Club Nautic de Vilanova will host the race officials monitoring the racing and the regatta office whilst along the western promontory of the port, the Media Centre and the fabulous La Duarada Hospitality Club can be found. Out by the harbour entrance is where the AC40s will be housed with teams erecting temporary hangars and support bases for the event. The America’s Cup is coming to Vilanova i La Geltrú in September. Be there.

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Our Barcelona marina is located in the municipality of Vilanova i la Geltrú. Just 45 minutes from the centre of Barcelona and 30 minutes from the city’s international airport – which boasts a dedicated private jet terminal – we offer our clients the perfect Mediterranean base for their superyacht. The marina has 48 superyacht berths ranging between 25 and 130 metres for yachts with a maximum draught of 6.5 metres. Each berth is serviced by a pedestal, complete with decalcified water and an electricity supply. Visitors will find modern and clean facilities as well as on-site year-round technical support services. Safety and security are of paramount importance. We’re ISPS certified and offer 24-hour security and surveillance services. We also operate a comprehensive environmental programme throughout the entire marina to ensure a clean and welcoming environment for guests and crew.

La Daurada Group is a company that has managed to position its multi-event space as a reference for leisure and gastronomy on the Barcelona coast. Located in Vilanova i la Geltrú, La Daurada has 10,000m2 facilities in which to live a unique entertainment and gastronomy experience in any of its different concepts: terrace, restaurant, disco, Cala Tintorera and La Marabanda. It is the perfect viewing gallery for the first preliminary regatta of the 37th America’s Cup with the racing due to take place right in front of La Daurada’s waterfront location. La Daurada is a unique space for events completely open to the Mediterranean Sea, as well as one of the best restaurants in Vilanova i La Geltrú serving sophisticated, Mediterranean and local gastronomy. 

Although it was inaugurated in 1957 the Club Nàutic Vilanova dates back to 1920. Its first location was on the eastern wharf of the port but in 1983 it moved to its current whereabouts. Nowadays, it has almost 700 members and more than 800 moorings. One of the greatest values of its marina is that it is integrated in the perfect town if you are looking for tranquillity, proximity, rest and good gastronomy. Within this port we can find the Club Nàutic Vilanova, an unbeatable base for nautical activities in the western Mediterranean. An ideal marina where you can take part in its activities all year round and berth your boat during the winter months to service it. The Club Nàutic Vilanova officially opened the new clubhouse on 10 July 2020. This new building contains the club's offices, the sailing school, the social area, and reception on the ground floor and the restaurant and cafeteria on the upper floor. The new building, together with the remodelling of the changing rooms and the extension of the sports esplanade, has left the Vilanova entity in ideal conditions to host any type of top-level sports competition and was a natural choice for the first preliminary regatta of the America’s Cup. All of this forms part of a series of strategic objectives of the Vilanova Yacht Club: to become a reference point on the Catalan coast, to open the port area in the city, with the essential aim of promoting nautical activity and to provide Vilanova i la Geltrú’s seafront with new social, cultural, sporting and gastronomic facilities.

Founded in 1884 by Víctor Balaguer, a Catalan politician and writer, the Biblioteca Museu Víctor Balaguer is one of Catalonia’s oldest museums. Its galleries show an exceptional trajectory through the different artistic movements of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century in Catalonia, from Romanticism to Noucentisme. The important legacy in contemporary art also stands out, with a relevant section of Informalism Art. The painting section is completed with a permanent exhibition of approximately 20 oil paintings of the Spanish and European Baroque period, which come from the historical collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid. This section includes works by El Greco, Ribera, Goya, Rubens and Van Dyck. Amongst the ethnographic collections, with objects from the Philippines, China, Japan and America, the Egyptian collection really stands out as the first one in Catalonia and includes a mummified child at its centrepiece.

The Can Papiol Romanticism Museum, known in Catalan as the Museu Romàntic Can Papiol is a museum located in the historic centre of Vilanova i la Geltrú in Catalonia, Spain. It is a manor house dating from the end of the 18th century and is characteristic both for the furniture and decorative elements preserved from the time. Its aim is to evoke 19th-century society by analysing the everyday life of a well-to-do family of the time. The museum is part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network.

The museum has a large collection of historic railway locomotives and other rolling stock in a former station and roundhouse. It is located close to the railway station in Vilanova i la Geltrú, opened in 1990 and is located in a former engine shed, built at the end of the 19th century. About 900 workers repaired and maintained locomotives there until 1967, when these activities ceased. The main building, attached to the museum, contains a library and a collection of railway items such as caps, miniatures, and machinery. The museum also has an auditorium where a film about the history of the railway in Catalonia is shown daily. The reception where visitors enter is the original ticket office from a railway station in the village of La Granada. The museum's collection comprises more than sixty vehicles from all periods of history, diverse countries of origin and different technologies, including 28 steam locomotives from the late 19th century and a copy of the first steam locomotive used in the Iberian Peninsula, still used in demonstrations on the first Sunday of the month. The collection also includes diesel and electric locomotives, coaches, a Bogie type Harlan, a signal bridge, and an original interlocking lever frame table used in the Barcelona central railway station. The museum's library contains more than 6,100 volumes in its catalogue, including works on trains and vehicles, rail traffic documentation, history and legislation, statistics, and infrastructure. The library also houses 400 video recordings and 10,000 photographs.

The Ribes Roges beach is located in a residential environment on the promenade of Ribes Roges with a gentle slope and fine sand, popular with tourists and perhaps a perfect spot to unwind from a day watching the America’s Cup racing in September 2023. At its northern end it is bordered by the marina and at its southern end by a breakwater presided over by the majestic Pasífae that separates Adarró beach. It has a length of one kilometre, an average width of 150 meters and a total area of ​​sand of about 135,000 m². Between Ribes Roges beach, the Passeig de Ribes Roges and the Passeig del Carme we find the unique Ribes Roges park with areas of trees and grass, basketball courts, futsal and pétanque courts, table tennis, children's play areas, a train circuit in miniature, the Holalà and Tsunami bars, and also the Municipal Tourism Office. The beach is accessible from anywhere in the city either on foot, by scooter, by bicycle, by vehicle, by city bus or by tourist train during the summer season. The sea front has regulated parking and parking for the disabled. It can also be reached by shuttle bus service during the summer. 

Apart from traditional seafood restaurants and cutting edge presentations of local foods at culinary destinations such as L'Oganquit and Genito, Vilanova is a recognised centre for xató, a winter salad dressed with a rich sauce made from almonds, olives, fish, oil and garlic, which forms the basis for the Festival of Xató (Xatonada) in tandem with nearby villages and towns. Other local innovations include Glòries, elaborate confections of meringue presented during ‘carnaval’ that may be a dying tradition, and the Mig-Mig, a refreshing summer drink invented at the gelateria Cal Llorens, is a fifty-fifty blend of Orxata de Xufa made from tiger nuts and granissat de llimona or pulverized ice with lemon syrup.