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Calella de Palafrugell Travel Guide
Calella de Palafrugell is well known for the traditional architecture of its Voltes (archways) and for its traditional sings-songs at which havaneres
Calella de Palafrugell is well known for the traditional architecture of its Voltes (archways) and for its traditional sings-songs at which havaneres (sea shanties) are accompanied by cremat (coffee flamed with rum). A festival of havaneres is held in July.
Cadaques Travel Guide
Cadaques is a knockout: crystal-blue water and fishing boats on the sandy beaches
The last resort on the Costa Brava before the French border, Cadaques is reached by a small winding road, twisting over the mountains from Roses, the nearest major center. Scenically, Cadaques is a knockout: crystal-blue water, fishing boats on the sandy beaches, old whitewashed houses, narrow twisting streets, and a 16th century parish up on a hill.Cadaques is an up-market resort for arty adults rather than families. There's a lively cafe society at night with jazz bars, and you can take part...
Tossa de Mar Travel Guide
Tossa de Mar offers a little bit of everything
Tossa de Mar offers a little bit of everything. It will be difficult for you to find a place such as this, which gathers in perfect harmony thick woods suitable for long walks, with pine trees by the seaside or hanging onto the cliffs, and quiet secluded beaches caressed by a transparent blue sea, with waves breaking against the rocks...Tossa, the Blue Paradise, the Pearl of the Costa Brava, worldwide representation, by its own attributes, of our welcoming and hospitable Coast, generously offers...
Banyoles Travel Guide
Site of the 1992 Olympic rowing events
17 km up the freeway from Girona is the lakeside town of Banyoles, site of the 1992 Olympic rowing events. (If you're not in a rush to get to the lake, turn off the freeway at the signs for Palol, with its ruined castle and a fortified precinct, on this attractive alternate route to Banyoles.) The lake, with a surface of one square km and 8 km perimeter, is unique in the world in that it is fed by the confluence of two subterranean rivers, where 600 liters of water are pumped in per second....
Sant Antoni de Calonge Travel Guide
A lovely village with a medieval layout crowding around the castle of the Dukes of Sessa
Sant Antoni de Calonge is a lovely village with a medieval layout crowding around the castle of the Dukes of Sessa, which was built in the 12 Century. It has many remarkable old buildings. The old maritime part, Sant Antoni de Calonge, has developed considerably through tourism along the beach which continues as far as Palamos. Around Sant Antoni de Calonge there are attractive places such as Sa Cova, El Comtat de Sant Jordi, Roque Planes, Torre Valentina and Treaumal. All are located 1km from...
Sant Pere Pescador Travel Guide
Surrounded by natural spaces of wonderful landscape
Sant Pere Pescador (12km north of L'Escala) is surrounded by natural spaces of wonderful landscape and natural interest and crossed by the River Fluvia.It has the benefit of a sandy 7km long beach. The first reference to the town dates from 974 when it was owned by the monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes part of the county of Empuries. The castle of Sant Pere dates from the 14th Century.The surrounding marshes were draine in the 17th and 18th Centuries making the area an important agricultural...
Sant Feliu de Guixols Travel Guide
An eminently Mediterranean town situated at the heart of the Costa Brava
Sant Feliu de Guixols is an eminently Mediterranean town situated at the heart of the Costa Brava and surrounded by hills with woods of pine and holm oak, wich has become an important holiday resort offering visitors a wide range of services. All year round Sant Feliu has an intense commercial activity, and the municipal council organises numerous leisure and cultural activities, in addition to maintaining the town's most deeply-rooted traditions. Thanks to its pleasant, temperate climate, Sant...
Torroella de Montgri Travel Guide
Torroella de Montgri and l'Estartit are two centres of population of the same town with the most variety on the Costa Brava
Torroella de Montgri and l'Estartit are two centres of population of the same town with the most variety on the Costa Brava. On the coast you can enjoy the endless sandy beach, and miles and miles of totally unspoilt rocky coastline, with beautiful little corners and coves, with pine groves that reach down to the sea. Just a mile away from the port, where you can find every nautical facility, the Medes Islands emerge from the sea, a natural reserve populated by birds, with one of the most...
Balearic Islands Travel Guide
A multifaceted paradise
The Balearic Islands (Catalan: Illes Balears; Spanish: Islas Baleares) are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The co-official languages in the Balearic Islands are Spanish and Catalan. The four largest islands are Mallorca (Majorca), Menorca (Minorca), Ibiza, and Formentera. Each of these four Mediterrean islands have a theme. Mallorca (Majorca) combines a little of everything, from spectacular mountain scenery and hiking through to...
Ibiza Travel Guide
A mixture of hippies, fashionistas, nudists, clubbers and package tourists
Ibiza has a vast cultural richness as a result of the several invasions it has been subject to throughout the island's history. The different monuments to visit are proof of this history and allow us to picture the history of the island all the way through from the Punic period to modern times. The Greeks called Ibiza and Formentera the Islas Pitiusas. Ibiza is a kaleidoscope of cultures and is the most extreme of the Balearic islands. In the 1960s Europe’s hippies started heading to...
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