One of the first things we noticed about Tarragona was how clean it was. The people here seem to take cleanliness to a new level. First thing every day the beaches would be "swept" with a machine picking up unwanted items and making the beaches smooth and white. Street sweepers went past regularly and after a local market finished up the area was immediately swept and hosed down. On most streets were a line of recycling bins which continued underground into a much larger skip sized bins.