Solsona Experience is the trade name of a non-profit cooperative project promoted by a group of young people from Solsona. We work for the revitalization and tourist projection of the city, collaborating with public and private actors in the sector. We want you to discover our territory, its heritage and its people through a wide range of proposals. Can we guide you?
We offer experiential guided tours tailored to your interests, so that you understand and love our home as much as we do.
We are a young team eager to make our territory known. We live and feel at home, and we want to vindicate our territory as an option for the future.
We feel lucky to be from Solsona and we want to show it to people. We love where we are and are actively part of it.
We defend and enforce all the traditional elements of the culture of the territory. We are passionate about the history of our home and we want to spread it and make it available to everyone.
We are a non-profit cooperative with social sensitivity. We collaborate with various associations, administrations and companies in order to create and share fair, original, interesting products and services for everyone.
We are constantly learning because we want to offer the best proposals to our customers. We work to have fun while we make you enjoy and thrill with our visits. We like to learn through your questions while discovering our home with you.
Walking through the historic center of Solsona is a return to the past, to a walled past that still preserves the three entrance portals to the town: the Pont, the Castell and the Llobera. We invite you to live history with a guided tour of the historic center: streets and squares Major, Sant Joan, Sant Isidre, with fountains and stately homes. The visit includes the cathedral with the cloister. You will discover the stories and legends that surround the cathedral and the Virgin of the Cloister, patron saint of Solsona. You will also meet the most important noble families who have left their mark on the city. Finally, during the visit to the Quarto dels Gegants, all the folklore heritage of the Festa Major de Solsona is presented.
The cliffs of hundreds of meters made the conglomerate of the Busa plateau an impregnable fortress for the French in 1811. A 5-hour hiking route will make you discover the most spectacular places of one of the jewels of the Solsonès. Meanwhile, the guides will transport you to the beginning of the 19th century, when Busa was the second most important place in Spain. Centennial walls, dream viewpoints, a natural prison, wild cliffs and a snack of typical Solsonès products are some of the secrets you can enjoy on the route 'Busa, the impregnable fortress'.
Take a journey through history with a guided tour of the monumental complex of Sant Esteve d'Olius. This visit will transport you from the time of the Iberians to the beginning of the 19th century. You can get to know an Iberian silo field and how it worked, and also enjoy the Romanesque church of Sant Esteve d'Olius and its pre-Romanesque crypt. Finally, the entrance and visit to the Modernist Cemetery of Olius designed by Bernardí Martorell are included.
The Ice Well is a circular structure covered with a dome, which was used to store the ice obtained from the Black River or the Bòfia hole. It was used from the 17th to the 19th century. During the colder months, the ice was stored and stored indoors, and was marketed from spring to All Saints' Day.
Do you want to know where the giants of the Festa Major de Solsona live? Come and discover the space where they are kept together with the rest of the insults. In this activity we will present the elements of the Festa Major and Corpus: the 4 giants, the dwarves, the bears, the eagle and alligators, the dragon, the mule and the ox.
The Pallarès ravine is a tributary of the Negre river. Its waters and natural environment have welcomed the current city of Solsona. With the help of Sàmara Natura you will discover the beauty and importance of the riverside forest and the natural treasures of the Solsonès.
The guides of Solsona Experience will open the doors to know the Iberian Solsona while visiting the town of Castellvell, will transport you to the Middle Ages, time of maximum splendor of the castle of Solsona (now Castellvell d'Olius) and will show you other secrets of our city.
Among ashes, oaks and pines and surrounded by ticks and woodpeckers, we will know aqueducts, Iberians and feudal lords. The great viewpoint of Castellvell, watchtower of the city of Solsona, will offer us rest and views of the vineyard of Solsona and much of the Solsonès region.