Camping Riba-Roja

The Ebro river is a couple of hundred metres away and is suitable for swimming – or you could just bask with a book on its small beach. Getting a bit more active, these parts are a walkers' paradise, with trails along the river, up the mountains and through the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War. Bustards, sandgrouses, cuckoos and other birds should be spottable along the way if you're in the area to wildlife watch. This is excellent fishing terrain too, for the likes of carp, catfish, mullet and bass, around Camping Riba-Roja's nearby towns of Ascó and Vinebre; stay around after the angling at the former to check out the town's several tapas bars a few minutes' walk from the river. If you want to travel a bit further, trains run from Ascó's railway station to Valencia, Zaragoza and the Catalan capital Barcelona.