Barcelona Travel Guide

Girona is one of the four provinces that, together with Barcelona, Tarragona and Lleida, make up the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. Each province, in turn, is divided into counties. The counties in the province of Girona are: El Gironès, La Selva, El Pla de l’Estany, L’Alt and El Baix Empordà, La Garrotxa, El Ripollès and La Cerdanya, and some worldwide known sites are placed there.

The Girona coast, covering L’Alt and El Baix Empordà, is universally known as the Costa Brava, one of the preferred holiday zones for tourists from all over the world. Along more than two hundred kilometres, its untouched nature areas and botanical gardens alternate with fishing villages and cosmopolitan urbanisations. In L’Alt Empordà, you can find Dali’s museum, in Figueres, one of the Spain’s most visited museums, and the ancient ages are present in Empuries, with Roman and Greek remains. Also the inland panorama is extremely varied forested mountains (La Cerdanya), where you can practise ski during winter season, protected natural parks, one of the most important volcanic areas in Europe (La Garrotxa) and a lake that hosted the 1992 Olympic Games rowing events (Banyoles, El Pla de l’Estany).

The city of Girona is the capital of the province. It is placed in El Gironès, on the banks of the Ter and Onyar rivers. Girona, with a population of about 87,000 inhabitants is a small city that still conserves the quality of life that has been lost in larger ones. It is a hectic administrative and university centre, pole of commercial and cultural attraction, with the highest quality of life in Catalonia and almost for the whole Spain.  It is situated in a privileged place, hardly an hour from Barcelona or from the French border and about two from the Pyrenees. Founded by the Romans, it is one of the oldest cities in Catalonia with more than 2,000 years of history. European history! we can say, even the Seat of Carlemany (Charlemagne, Karl de Große, Karel de Grote…) is in the Cathedral. But that’s not the only treasure in the city. Its exceptional old part is one continuous monument of temples, belfries, houses, palaces and walls, and it contains one of the best-preserved Medieval Jewries in Europe. 

…And those are only some of the reasons which make Girona a cute place to stay!, then you will discover the others.
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