2. The territory
Routes of the “tramuntana” wind and light
"The projection of the air of the tramontana on the country
produces a clean landscape, dry, precise, admirably
drawn...
of naked distances that approach in sight, with immense
rainbows, of a dazzling metallic purity".
Josep Pla in "The wind of Southwesterly Wind and the
north wind (Essay about the weather of the country)", in
My Country (1967).
The tramontana it's cold, dry wind, which proceeds of the
north and often very strong. Is a typical climatic factor
from the Empordà, which influences the character of the
persons. The irritability increases them for some and in
other, however, loads them of energy.
The light and the color of the Empordà after a north wind,
it's like contemplating an artwork. It is surprising to ascertain
the influence accused of the wind in the conformation of
environments, of landscapes with speech. Jacint
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Verdaguer, Carles Fages de Climent, Salvador Dalí, and
later Josep Pla saw in the north wind an essential element
of the genius loci from Empordà.
The routes of the tramontana and of the light are from
abrupt and scabrous geography, propped by the wind of
the north wind.
Landscape, photography and, either flavor in sea (from
Port Bou until Cap de Creus) or flavor in rosemary (for the
Albera), are what these routes offer. routes of the light
The
also include the show of the sky from Empordà that so well
reflected Dalí in their work.
But the best skies, they arrive with the night. When the
golden light of the Empordà vanishes and night falls. The
colors of twilight,
mark starry nights and uncontaminated. As each year,
only in August, when can be visited the largest surrealist
object of the world, the Theater-Museum Dalí, by night.
The night timetable is from ten o’clock in the evening
through to one o’clock in the morning (last entrance at
12.30 am). During that time visitors will be offered a glass of
cava on one of the inner terraces, where an audiovisual
will also be projected (weather permitting).
3. Example of program
• Breakfast buffet
Day 1 • A fully equipped meeting room will be ready to start with your meeting
• Breaks and pauses will be:
• Coffee Break:
Orange Juice, Peach Juice and Pineapple Juice
Coffee
Decaf. coffee
Milk
Teas and herbal teas
Bottled water
Assorted sweet and savory pastries
• Lunch:
Mezclum salad with goat cheese and Pedro Ximenez scented onion
Monkfish tail with green sauce sautéed veggies
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”Fried milk” with berries syrup
• In the afternoon we will take a bike from the hotel and will go over one of the more used “green lanes” in
our country.
After a couple of hours we will go back to the hotel in order to enjoy one of our refreshing activities.
• Before dinner we suggest to do a CAVA CHALLENGE, a funny blind tasting where the participants will have
to decide what is best: a cava or a champagne.
• Dinner at the hotel (an example):
Roasted Eggplant and red peppers with Escala anchovies
Beef entrecote with Vierneaise sauce
Apple tatin with vanilla icecream
• Free time to enjoy the facilities.
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4. Example of program
• Breakfast buffet
Day 2 • A fully equipped meeting room will be ready to start with your meeting
• Breaks and pauses will be:
• Coffee Break:
Orange Juice, Peach Juice and Pineapple Juice
Coffee
Decaf. coffee
Milk
Teas and herbal teas
Bottled water
Assorted sweet and savory pastries
• Cooking-Lunch
Today we will make lunch ourselves. Directed by our chef and accompanied by our
gastronomes we will elaborate a delicious meal with the following menu:
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Tapas and appetizers
Seafood paella
Dessert
• Afterwards we will leave the hotel to go to Dali Museum and later we will have a wine tasting
accompanied with Spanish Hams in a winery of the Wine Area (D.O.) Empordà.
• Dinner back in the hotel (example):
Prawns and salmon salad
Roasted lamb back
Ice cream pie with fruit coulis
• Free time to enjoy the facilities. We can offer a Whisky tasting to supplement it.
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5. Example of program
Day 3 • Breakfast buffet
• A fully equipped meeting room will be ready to start with your meeting
• Breaks and pauses will be:
• Coffee Break:
Orange Juice, Peach Juice and Pineapple Juice
Coffee
Decaf. coffee
Milk
Teas and herbal teas
Bottled water
Assorted sweet and savory pastries
• Today, as a round off of our accommodation, we will do a Gourmet Casino teambuilding that will
serve as an appetizer of our final lunch.
• Lunch
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Sautéed spinach with Spanish ham and pine nuts cannelloni.
Duck magret with mint scented apple sauce
Grilled apple with mushroom ice cream
• End of our services
• Transfers to Girona airport
We could arrange an accommodation extension package in case of more than 10 people
interested.
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6. The area
• Hotel Mas Tapiolas can offer its clients the possibility of
enjoying exclusive services and its excellent location, the
Vall de Solius (Solius Valley), where such things as peace
and quietness, which can be easily sensed, together with
its great natural value and cultural heritage, have made
it one of the most emblematic places in Costa Brava.
Despite it being located in a secluded place, this 4-star
hotel has good communications with the main centres
of interest and leisure of the area (Platja d’Aro, Sant Feliu
de Guíxols, Palamós, Palafrugell, Girona...). This way, the
possibilities for enjoying leisure and entertainment
outdoors are very big and varied. The S’Agaró Beach is
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just ten minutes far form the hotel, and the golf courses
of both Santa Cristina d’Aro and Mas Nou (Platja d’Aro)
are only five minutes far. PGA Golf de Caldes de
Malavella is also quite close, as well as the much
recognised Empordà Golf (Gualta), the Club de Golf de
Pals and the Club Golf Girona.
Year of construction: 2000
Last renovation: 2003
Number of rooms: 40
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7. The facilities
The inside
• They have 7 rooms at your disposal in the fine residential
zone (Masia). All of them have been decorated with
Catalan country-style furniture, and supplied with all sorts of
services and amenities. The other 31 rooms are located in
the new residential zone, of a neoclassical-style decoration,
where soft pastel shade colors are predominant. The
Ground Floor rooms are endowed with a terrace and a little
outdoor garden with grass.
• Let yourself be seduced by their gastronomic offer when
paying a visit to their familiar and cozy atmosphere
restaurant. Over there you can enjoy the tasting of a wide
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range of dishes inspired by the Catalan traditional cooking,
composed of appropriate specialties according to season.
The breakfast service is offered at their buffet located in the
``Saló dels Caçadors`` room, where you will be able to
choose among a diverse variety of products in order to get
off to a good start in the morning.
If you prefer something lighter and informal, we can suggest
you to approach their Cafeteria Bar, where you will be able
to enjoy their drinks selection and a nice view of the ``Massís
de l`Ardenya``.
In addition, they have at your disposal their room service,
with a selection of dishes according to one’s fancy.
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8. Working in Mas Tapiolas
The Sallés Hotel Mas Tapiolas has
everything you need for your
business meetings, conventions or
training courses to be a
resounding success. Their aim is to
provide you with a high-quality
service, placing a select choice of
facilities at your fingertips,
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together with four different
convention rooms of varying sizes.
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9. The hotel
Hotel Mas Tapiolas can offer its clients the
possibility of enjoying exclusive services and its
excellent location, the Vall de Solius (Solius
Valley), where such things as peace and
quietness, which can be easily sensed, together
with its great natural value and cultural
heritage, have made it one of the most
emblematic places in Costa Brava. The hotel
has been properly arranged after the
refurbishing of the old XVIII-century Catalan
masia (traditional farm). The new service
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premises revolve around it. You will feel at
home due to its family environment as well as to
the distribution that has been arranged for the
inner-space, just devised to please any client.
Mas Tapiolas
1 hour from Barcelona
25 minutes from Girona Airport.
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10. Our selection of wineries
• Food wine tours has selected a range of wineries where to develop a
few of your activities in the territory where you are accommodated.
When you start a tale in the Catalan tradition you
would say: Heus aquí una vegada…Once upon
a time there was a place where people and
earth worked together. There was an earth where
the Greeks planted seeds (which are the llavors in
our language) of a great history. There were the
soils (sòls in Catalan) that saw grew up the
vineyard and olive cultivation. Here is where
tradition and the search for authenticity go
together. This is the way, with hope, that the
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image takes colour and the darkness breaks.
This is a small vineyard and olive grove in the core
of Empordà, in Mollet de Peralada. It is also a
young familiar company fruit of the effort and
dreams come true. The origin of this project
traces back to 2002 when two old Carignan and
Grenache vines – aged between 50 and 75 –
were purchased. So far, more and more vines
have been planted up to the almost 30 ha. The
project was consolidated in 2006 with the
construction of the cellar and the making of the
first wines. Since 2009 the winery belongs to one
of the first wineries that have entered to the
Integrated system of cultivation respectful with
the environment.
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11. Activities
• In the hotel, there is a
wide range of leisure
activities: outdoor
swimmingpool, walks or
bike routes to the beach,
volleyball, etc
For your motivation
seminars and
teambuildings we can
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organize activities such
as kayaking, Wine
Game, Gourmet Casino,
visits to wineries, etc.
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13. Indoor Training
Wine game
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14. Indoor Training –
Wine and gastronomic scavenger
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15. The ALL INCLUSIVE includes:
Included Not included
In the hotel
Accommodation
Meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
Snacks inbetween meetings
Wine in meals, aperitifs.
Open bar and liquors
Assistance during your seminar
Transportation: taxi, bus (microbuses for transfers in/out))
Your meeting
Meeting room
Small meeting rooms for casual meeetings (small living rooms adapted for this issue)
Overhead projector
Flipcharts
Slide projector
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Wifi Conection
Technical assistance
Internet conection
Sport and leisure activities
Excursion along the green lanes
Viisit to Dali Museum with transportation + winery visit with tastings of wine and ham
Cava Challenge for 50 people
Cooking for 50 people
Gourmet casino for 50 perople
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16. Cooking Team Bulding
• Paella is the most famous authentic national dish of Spain.
Come and learn how to prepare this wonderful and tasty
meal.
• The group will be divided in teams that will have to make the
paella following the instructions in the recipe and led by the
chefs that will be helping and supporting.
• Once the paellas are finished, they will be blind tasted and
judged on different criteria by the master chef.
Includes:
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• A dish of the paella made by the participants
• Dessert: crema catalana
• White wine, bottled mineral water and coffee.
Price per person: 55€ (minimum of 40 people)
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17. Sailing through Costa Brava
The brigantine Sea Star is a unique boat in Spain, with
noble woods, 2 masts , 6 double cabins with ensuite
bathroom, air conditioning and heating facilities.
Other facilities: dining room in stern deck, view bridge,
sun deck, living room with tv, hi-fi, auxiliar boat, 520
square meters of wings, fishing rods, professional crew,
and all necessary services for a safe and nice boat trip.
After boarding we will sail through the coast arriving (if
weather and time allows us) to Cap de Creus.
During the trip we will be able to observe the new vines
of Grenache, Syrah and Monastrell. We will taste the
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wines of the winery, talk about its history and its
anecdotes and enjoy a full trip full of emotions, relax
and pleasure.
Dinner at the harbour.
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18. The menu on board
Appetizers to choose (8)
Salmon and yoghourt blinis with thyme
Calamari tartare
Brie lollypop with Spanish ham
Duck maregt sandwich with apple and sweet and sour onion
Salmon ceviche with potato and veggies
Assortment of small sushi
Fried eggs with potatoes and chorizo
Tuna tartare
Fresh cheese spoon with tomato pesto
Calamari tempura skewer
Mussels and melon salad
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Main dish (to choose one)
Lobster paella
or
Shrimp “Fideuá”
Desserts
Local cake with cottage cheese
IncIusions
Boat rental
Dinner and Wines (Espelt)
Transportation with private bus
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Souvenirs
Example of Gastronomic