Qualla: Reus https://qualla.com/reus en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/f/reus-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Reus https://qualla.com/reus Reus: Introduction https://qualla.com/reus/ Photo credit Kippelboy, CC BY 3.0. For a stretch of the nineteenth century, three cities were said to set the price of aiguardent, the fiery grape spirit that Europe could not get enough of, and they were named together in a single breath: Reus, Paris, London. Two were imperial capitals. The third was a Catalan market town of a few tens of thousands, twelve kilometres inland from the Mediterranean. That a place this size could stand beside Paris and London tells you almost everything about how much wine, spirits, and sheer commercial nerve once flowed through Reus.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/f/reus-wk/sp2f-reus-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Reus: The Spirit Trade https://qualla.com/reus/ Photo credit Sergi Esteve (Sel_commons), CC BY-SA 3.0. Reus grew rich on distillation. By the eighteenth century it was the great eau-de-vie exporting center of southern Europe, shipping barrels of grape spirit north through the nearby port of Salou to buyers who craved it. Then came disaster elsewhere that turned into opportunity he...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/f/reus-wk/sp2f-reus-the-spirit-trade.mp3 0:06 2 full Reus: A City Built to Show Off https://qualla.com/reus/ Photo credit Tomàs, CC BY-SA 2.0. Money that flows for generations wants to be seen, and Reus poured its wealth into architecture. When Catalan Modernisme swept the region around 1900, the town's merchants commissioned some of its finest buildings, many of them not from Gaudi but from Lluis Domenech i Montaner, t...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/f/reus-wk/sp2f-reus-a-city-built-to-show-off.mp3 0:06 3 full Reus: The Question of Gaudi https://qualla.com/reus/ Photo credit Enfo, CC BY-SA 3.0. And then there is the matter of Antoni Gaudi, whom Reus proudly claims as its own. The greatest architect Catalonia ever produced spent his childhood in and around the town before Barcelona made him immortal, and the city has built much of its modern identity on the connection. T...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/f/reus-wk/sp2f-reus-the-question-of-gaudi.mp3 0:06 4 full Reus: The Town at the Foot of the Cliffs https://qualla.com/reus/ Photo credit Enfo, CC BY-SA 3.0. There is a wilder side to Reus, too. The town sits at the gateway to the climbing country of inland Tarragona, and it has become a hub for rock climbers heading into the limestone crags of the Prades mountains and the celebrated walls of Siurana and Margalef nearby. Tarragona and...

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