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Sant Just Desvern Tourism, a website to get lost… and find everything.

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Sant Just Desvern Tourism, a website to get lost… and find everything.
turisme.santjust.net · Naturalment Collserola
The brief

Sant Just Desvern wanted to show itself to the world and, along the way, remind its own residents what they have next door: an Iberian settlement, old farmhouses, the whole of Collserola a step away and a Festa Major with character. The brief: a tourism website where the natural, the urban and the cultural could live together.

One that could win over a visitor from abroad and a local alike, and that the City Council tourism office could update without depending on anyone.

What we did

We built a custom WordPress website, with a 100 % bespoke design and in four languages: Catalan, Spanish, English and French. A visitor arriving from Lyon or London gets the same website a local does, not a cut-down version.

We organised the town around questions, not departments. What to do? Sant Just in a day, urban routes, heritage sites, itineraries, markets, fairs, shopping, sports, cycling routes. Where to eat? Where to sleep? Family and business tourism. Events and news. That is how someone who does not know the town navigates.

Every hotel, restaurant and service has its own editable listing to show off with: opening hours, photos, how to get there. And we finished it off with interactive maps, an events calendar and photography that makes you want to go.

We adapted the «Naturalment Collserola» brand to carry that connection with the green: colours, shapes and a rhythm that invite you to breathe. The same brand we later took to the Municipal Market website.

The key

A municipal tourism website fails when it is organised like the org chart. The key was structuring it the way a visitor uses it: what do I do, where do I eat, where do I sleep, what is on this weekend. And leaving every listing in the hands of whoever knows it.

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languages: Catalan, Spanish, English and French
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editable listing for every hotel, restaurant and service
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templates: bespoke design
What is inside a tourism website

Underneath the design there are listing types, and that is where everything is decided. A hotel needs photos, a category, opening hours and booking. A route needs distance, difficulty, a map and a starting point. An event needs a date, a place and how to get there. A heritage site needs history and visiting details. Each type has its own fields, and the site displays them properly without whoever is editing having to design anything.

Then comes what keeps it alive: the events calendar and the news, the only sections that change every week. Years after launch, the portal is still publishing stories (the Tour de France passing through Sant Just, new routes in Collserola) without us touching a line. That is the result that counts on a public website: that it stays alive without us.

How it went
01ArchitectureThe town organised around questions
02BrandNaturalment Collserola applied to the website
03DevelopmentListings, maps, events and four languages
04HandoverThe tourism office keeps it running
Gallery · the project in pictures (click to enlarge)
A council website that doesn't look like a council website. The page that wins over people just passing through. The world's largest metropolitan park starts just next door. Tourists carry a phone, not a folded leaflet. From the neolithic to the Diagonal, on a single page. The single most-searched question on any tourism site, answered. An Iberian settlement, some farmhouses and this week's diary. Two thousand years of scroll, which is how we read now.
"Rediscover Sant Just without leaving the sofa (for now)."The project team

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