Salou

Salou is a region of the comarca of Tarragones, in the area of Tarragona, in Catalonia, Spain. The city is around 10 km from Tarragona and Reus on the Costa Daurada and 112 km from Barcelona. Beside its series of shorelines hindered by rough bays, and its finished promenade, one of its principle attractions is the PortAventura World resort. The Dutch motion picture Costa and the TV arrangement with a similar title were both recorded in Salou. Utilized as a port by Greeks and Romans, it showed up again in a critical notable occasion, when in 1229 the armada of James I of Aragon withdrew from the port of Salou to vanquish the Balearic Islands, along these lines making the Kingdom of Majorca.

In 1286 Alfons III of Aragon likewise withdrew from this port to vanquish Menorca, the last Moorish domain of the Balearic Islands. Afterward, Salou turned into a home of privateers. After that it was viewed as a risky place, so in 1530 Archbishop of Tarragona chose to erect another resistance tower, now called Torre Vella. In 1865 the railroad station started to work, opening another improvement time, that drove one hundred years after the fact to a traveler blast that has conveyed thriving to the town. Salou was isolated from the adjoining district of Vila-seca on 30 October 1989 by a choice of the Supreme Court of Spain.