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Salou needs financing for tourist municipalities

Salou reiterates the need for specific funding for tourist municipalities during the visit of the Government Delegate

Salou City Council has once again highlighted the need for Catalonia to promote a specific funding model for tourist municipalities. This was one of the main demands that Mayor Pere Granados conveyed this Thursday, 30 July 2026, to the Government Delegate of the Generalitat of Catalonia in Tarragona, Lucía López Cerdán, during her institutional visit to the municipality.

Salou Seeks Fair Local Funding for Tourist Municipalities

Salou Calls for a Local Funding Model Adapted to the Reality of Tourist Municipalities

The Salou City Council has called for a new local funding model that reflects the real needs of tourist municipalities and ensures the provision of high-quality public services without placing an unfair financial burden on residents.

What to do in Salou: see the total sun eclipse

What to do in Salou: see the total sun eclipse

Salou is one of the 20 Catalan municipalities where on August 12, 2026 you will be able to observe an astronomical phenomenon that cannot be seen in Catalonia for 121 years: a total eclipse of the sun. The last time that could be seen was on August 30, 1905, and for this reason a great expectation has been awakened. We tell you everything you need to know to enjoy this show of the celestial stars.

Salou and the Generalitat prepare for the total solar eclipse

Salou prepares with the Generalitat the devices for the total eclipse of the sun

The City Council of Salou and the Generalitat de Catalunya are preparing the devices to facilitate and ensure the observation of the total solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 by all people who want to live this astronomical phenomenon, which has not occurred in Catalonia for 121 years. The eclipse also coincides with the summer festival of Salou, the Golden Nights.

Salou, leading tourist destination on the Costa Daurada and Catalonia

Salou, leader in 2025 with 2.4 million visitors and 8.6 million overnight stays

Salou has done it again and has closed 2025 with record figures that consolidate the municipality as the leading destination of the Costa Dorada and one of the most important in Catalonia and Spain. Specifically, more than 2.4 million visits chose Salou for their holidays in 2025, 4.78% more than in 2024, and more than 8.6 million overnight stays were recorded, 4.21% more than the previous year.

Salou has the first smart pool in Catalonia of the EPIC network

Salou has the first smart pool in Catalonia of the EPIC network

The municipal swimming pool of Salou has released an advanced system of intelligent sensors that allows to monitor in real time the activity of the swimmers, reinforce the safety and the experience of the users, and make a more efficient management of the equipment. With this technology, Salou is the first municipality in Catalonia that integrates its pool in the Spanish Network of Connected Smart Swimming Pools (EPIC).

Secure trade for Christmas

Secure trade for Christmas

Christmas is a time of great commercial activity and Salou does not escape this situation, especially with the forecast of an increase in the number of visitors, especially families. That is why, as every year, the City of Salou strengthens its support for local commerce with a campaign to improve security. In fact, Salou is the second municipality in the province where crime has been reduced the most in 2025.

Recognition of 18 agents of the Local Police for their services

The Local Police recognices 18 agents for their services

The City Council of Salou and the Local Police have recognized 18 agents for their services. It has also been recalled that Salou is a safe municipality, according to the latest official data, and that the Local Police "is key to guarantee the quality of life of the citizens" said the mayor of Salou, Pere Granados.

First “Bank for Europe” to promote European values among young people

First “Bank for Europe” to promote European values among young people

The mayor of Salou, Pere Granados, has inaugurated in the Espigó del Moll the "Banc per Europa", a bank that has been painted with the colors of the flag of the European Union. The bank is the symbol of the entry of the municipality into the network of cities that actively defend European values, especially among young people. It is the first "Bank for Europe" opened in the province of Tarragona and the third in Catalonia.

Salou thinks in the Festa al Cel 2026

Salou conquers the sky and already thinks of the aerial acrobatics festival of 2026

Neither the weather forecasts of rain and bad weather for Sunday September 21 have been able to spoil the Festa al Cel 2025 in Salou, which has exceeded all expectations with more than 300,000 spectators coming from all over the world to continue, facing the sea, surprising aerial acrobatics. Salou has conquered the sky, and that is why it already thinks of the festival of 2026.

11M€ investment from the Next Generation to live better in Salou

Next Generation to live well in Salou all year round and during the holidays

In Salou you live well but you will still live better because the City of Salou has received 11 million euros, from the Next Generation Funds, to make a more sustainable and resilient municipality from the environmental, economic and social point of view. The projects for 2021 are already executed in 90% and those for 2023, in 45%.

Park in blue zone in summer

Park in the blue zone in summer

June 1st, the Salou City Council activates the blue zone of the different regulated parking areas of the municipality, which operate every day of the week, from Monday to Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., except in the car parks of Llevant and Nord. Check all the information about where to park in Salou, schedules and prices, and where to recharge electric vehicles.

More sustainable, safe and healthy beaches

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The sea, the beach, the sun and the sea breeze are desired in summer to enjoy the holidays and the moments of leisure and rest. But that is not enough. That is why the municipality of Salou has been working for a long time to go to the beach is an unforgettable experience, thanks to the protection of the natural environment and the services offered. That is why the beaches of Salou are sustainable, safe and healthy beaches, and that is why they are unique.

Free parking in Salou

Free parking in Salou

If our goal is to park for free in Salou during tourist season, we must consider it is a hard task, though not entirely impossible, as long as we are willing to walk.

The main Spanish tourist destinations in the British market

Major tourist municipalities strengthen their presence in the British market

The main tourist municipalities in Spain, members of the Alliance of Sun and Beach Tourist Municipalities (Adeje, Arona, Benidorm, Calvià, Lloret de Mar, Salou, San Bartolomé de Tirajana, and Torremolinos), met in London with the main British tour operators to strengthen the Spanish tourist destination in the British market.

Salou calls for tourist tax to reduce tax pressure

Salou asks that the new tourist tax reduce the tax pressure on the citizens of Salou

Yes to the increase in the tourist tax announced by the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia, but that the increase serves to reduce the tax pressure on the citizens of Salou. This is how forcefully the mayor of Salou, Pere Granados, has expressed it, who has recalled that this reduction in tax pressure has been a demand of tourist municipalities such as Salou for some time.

PortAventura opens 2025 celebrating Carnival and its 30th birthday

PortAventura opens 2025 celebrating Carnival and its 30th birthday

PortAventura opens its doors this 2025 celebrating Carnival for the third consecutive year. Thus, colour and partying will fill the park every weekend in March. This year, the park also celebrates its 30th anniversary, and that is why it is preparing to celebrate it in style.

Salou is committed to offering year-round, higher-quality work

Salou is committed to offering year-round, higher-quality work

Salou City Council has been working for some time to ensure that tourism can offer more and higher-quality work in the municipality. The strategy to achieve this ambitious goal involves above all diversification and innovation. It is precisely in this field that Salou has taken a further step, joining a pilot project of the State Secretariat for Tourism, through Segitur.

What to do in Salou during Holy Week

What to do in Salou during Holy Week 2024

If you have not yet decided where to spend these days of Easter holidays, do not hesitate and come to Salou. You can rest and do nothing else, which is a more than appealing plan, or choose one of the many possibilities that the capital of the Costa Dorada offers you. Here we leave you some proposals.

The Mare Nostrum Esei Summer Cup hosts 200 soccers teams

The Mare Nostrum Esei Summer Cup hosts 200 soccer teams, 40 women's

From June 22 to 25, 2023, Salou will host the 12th edition of the Mare Nostrum Esei Summer Cup football tournament. 200 national and international teams of young people between the ages of 7 and 18 will participate, of which 40 are women's teams. This means the mobilization of some 4,000 people and between 10,000 and 12,000 overnight stays on the Costa Dorada.

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