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• Tossa de Mar walled enclosure. Tossa de Mar.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … 17320. Tossa. Tossa de Mar. Girona. (Catalonia) E-mail: oftossa@ddgi.es. www.infotossa.com. This town was walled to prevent attacks from the sea.There are a few paintings that portray the wall with merlons and built of voussoirs, some round-plan Romanesque towers, and look-out defence posts from the…

• Santa Clotilde. Lloret de Mar.

  Arts and culture | [Parks and gardens]

  … Carretera de Lloret a Blanes , GI-682. 17310. Lloret de Mar. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972367750 | E-mail: central-turisme@lloret.org. www.lloret.org. The gardens are set on land close to the cliff edge in a particularly beautiful part of the Costa Brava. Building work began in 1927 under Dr. Ra…

• Marimurtra Botanical Garden. Blanes.

  Arts and culture | [Parks and gardens]

  … Paseo Karl Faust (Jardí Botànic MARiMURTRA) 9. 17300. Blanes. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972330826 | E-mail: marimurtra@marimurtra.cat. http://www.marimurtra.cat. Around the year 1920, in this exceptional location on the Costa Brava in the province of Girona, Carlos Faust began creating what is n…

• Pinya de Rosa Tropical Botanical Garden. Blanes.

  Arts and culture | [Parks and gardens]

  … Jardí Botànic Pinya de Rosa s/n. 17300. Blanes. Girona. (Catalonia) E-mail: jardipinyaderosa@hotmail.com. http://www.pinya-de-rosa.es/. The Pinya de Rosa Tropical Botanical Garden is around two kilometres from Blanes, on a route that is ideal for lovers of gardens, given that just a few kilometres b…

• Cap Roig Botanical Garden. Palafrugell.

  Arts and culture | [Parks and gardens]

  … Paraje de Cap Roig, (Jardí Botànic Cap Roig) s/n. 17210. Calella. Palafrugell. Girona. (Catalonia) E-mail: info@caproig.cat. In 1927, Colonel Woevodsky and Dorothy Webster bought the land of this estate in Cap Roig where they began building a castle and a magnificent park. The works continued until …

• Cork Museum. Palafrugell.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Placeta del Museu, s/n. 17200. Palafrugell. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972302310 | E-mail: info@museudelsuro.cat. www.museudelsuro.cat. From the cork oak. This exhibit explains the process of manufacturing cork. The museum is dedicated exclusively to the preservation, study and dissemination of t…

• Cinema Museum. Tomàs Mallol Collection. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Calle Sèquia 1. 17001. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972413047 | http://www.museudelcinema.cat. This history of film. The exhibition contains some of the 30,000 pieces that make up the private collection of Tomàs Mallol. This is one of the few museums to offer a journey across the 500 years …

• Jewish History Museum. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Calle de la Força 8. 17004. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972214618 | E-mail: callgirona@ajgirona.org. www.ajgirona.org/call. A look at the history of the Jewish community in the Middle Ages. The museum examines the life of Jews in the old Kingdom of Aragon from the 9th to 15th centuries. Th…

• Art Museum. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Subida de la Catedral 12. 17004. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972227595 | E-mail: museuart_girona.cultura@gencat.cat. www.museuart.com. Housed in the old Episcopal Palace. This museum contains an important collection of works from different periods and styles, ranging from the time of Greek…

• City History Museum. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Calle de la Força 27. 17004. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972206989 | E-mail: museuciutat@ajgirona.org. www.ajuntament.gi/museuciutat. This museum gives visitors an idea of the history of Girona and the people who shaped it. Located in the heart of the old quarter, it occupies different roo…

• Chapterhouse Museum. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Plaza de la Catedral s/n. 17004. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972215814 | E-mail: visites@catedraldegirona.org. www.catedraldegirona.org. Religious creation. The museum is home to the finest piece of Catalonian Romanesque textile art. The museum's greatest treasure is the Creation tapestry …

• Girona Cathedral. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Plaza de la Catedral s/n. 17004. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972215814 | E-mail: visites@catedraldegirona.org. www.catedraldegirona.org. The cathedral of the discordance. The Gerona Cathedral has the widest Gothic nave in the world. It was designed with three naves, but the prospect of a s…

• La Devesa Park. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Parks and gardens]

  … Paseo de la Devesa 1. 17001. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972419401 | E-mail: caseta@ajgirona.org. www.ajuntament.gi/caseta. La Devesa Park is the largest of all Catalonia’s city parks, covering some 40 hectares. Its origins go back to an area of land alongside the Ter River that was ceded …

• Arab baths. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Carrer Ferrán El Católico s/n. 17185. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34972213573 | www.banysarabs.org. Its structure is an imitation of Medieval Moslem baths, and its existence has been documented from the 12th century. It has a rectangular layout, and behind the entrance door is the apodyterium…

• San Félix Basilica. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Subida San Félix 29. 17004. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) http://www.catedraldegirona.org/. The building is of 14th century construction and on the site of a 6th century building.It is inside the walled area.Built with ashlar and masonry.Different styles can be seen in its construction such as Romanes…

• Sant Pere de Galligants Archaeological Museum. Gerona.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Plaza Santa Lucía 8. 17007. Girona. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972216487 | E-mail: macgirona.cultura@gencat.cat. http://www.mac.cat/esl/Sedes/Girona. The museum is housed in a 10th-century Benedictine monastery, a notable example of the Catalonian Romanesque style. The first items to arrive at th…

• San Julián de Boada Shrine. Palau-Sator.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … 17494. Sant Juliá de Boada. Palau-Sator. Girona. (Catalonia) Located in the town centre. On of the most interesting pre-Romanesque monuments in the region, named an Historic-Artistic Monument in 1931. Today it is a monument of national cultural interest.Worship has not been performed in the church s…

• Púbol Castle, Gala Dalí House-Museum. Pera, La.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Plaza Gala Dalí s/n. 17120. Púbol. Pera, La. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972488653 | E-mail: pbgrups@dali-estate.org. www.salvador-dali.org. The castle that the artist Salvador Dalí gave to his muse, Gala, as a gift. Since 1996, the Medieval castle of Púbol has been the site of the Gala Dalí House…

• El Puig de Sant Andreu Iberian Settlement. Ullastret.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Puig de Sant Andreu. 17114. Ullastret. Girona. (Catalonia) E-mail: macullastret.cultura@gencat.cat. http://www.mac.cat/esl/Sedes/Ullastret/Presentacion. It is a pre-Roman archaeological site of the Indiketes tribe.Dating from the 6th century B.C., to the 2nd century B.C. There are very few remains o…

• Triumphal Arch. Barcelona.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … Paseo Lluis Companys s/n. 08010. Barcelona. (Catalonia) It was the entry gate to the International Exposition of 1888. The monument is an allegory to industry, handicrafts and business, and was designed by the architect Josep Vilaseca. The Triumphal Arch was designed by the architect Josep Vilaseca …

• Empúries. Escala, L'.

  Arts and culture | [Museums]

  … Calle Puig i Cadafalch s/n. 17130. Escala, L'. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972775975 | E-mail: macempuries.cultura@gencat.cat. http://www.mac.cat/esl/Sedes/Empuries. The important archaeological site at Empúries was inhabited by different civilisations over the ages. The city was founded by the Gr…

• Greek ruins of Empuries. Escala, L'.

  Arts and culture | [Monuments]

  … 17130. Empuries. Escala, L'. Girona. (Catalonia) Fax.: +34 972775975 | E-mail: macempuries.cultura@gencat.cat. http://www.mac.cat/esl/Sedes/Empuries. Ampurias is the most important Greek archaeological site to be found in Spain.Its origin stems from the settlement of Greek colonisers during the 5th …