Heritage towns in Girona (Gerona)
26 towns in this province.
A former independent county capital in Girona, its medieval bridges, Jewish baths, Romanesque monastery, and Gothic palace forming one of Catalonia's most coherent surviving medieval ensembles.
A whitewashed fishing town on the rocky Cap de Creus peninsula in Girona, long favoured by Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, and Picasso, where deep geographic isolation preserved both its dialect and its architecture.
A city of Roman foundations, medieval walls you can walk, a Gothic cathedral with the world's second-widest nave, and one of Europe's best-preserved Jewish quarters, all gathered above the coloured houses of the Onyar river in Cataluña.
A medieval hilltop town in Girona with intact walls, a Gothic quarter of stone arches and ogival windows, and a Romanesque tower that has marked the hours since the Middle Ages.
A medieval village in Girona whose castle, stone walls, and cobbled streets trace their origins from a ruling lineage recorded as far back as the Middle Ages, standing at the heart of the Baix Empordà.
A well-preserved medieval village in Girona's volcanic landscape, its porticoed square and castle at the heart of a town declared a Historic Artistic Monument.
A Costa Brava resort town on the Girona coast whose Roman roots, medieval walled quarter, and brief Hollywood moment in 1950 give it more substance than most beach destinations along this stretch of coast.
Perched on a basalt cliff above two rivers in Girona province, Castellfollit de la Roca is a medieval village whose volcanic rock streets and Renaissance church tower over one of Cataluña's most dramatic natural platforms.
A castle town in Girona with medieval walls, a chronicle writer's birthplace, and one of the world's great private libraries locked inside a restored French-style fortress.
Once the capital of the County of Empúries, this Girona town holds a cathedral-scale Gothic church, medieval walls, convents, and a Jewish quarter within a historic centre that has kept its medieval street plan largely intact.
Known as "the cradle of Catalonia," Ripoll grew around a great Romanesque monastery founded by Count Wilfred the Hairy, and its heritage of medieval manuscripts, iron forges, and mountain railways makes it one of the most historically layered towns in the Catalan Pyrenees.
Home to a monastery founded in the ninth century above the River Ter, Sant Joan de les Abadesses stands on the Catalan stretch of the Camino de Santiago in the province of Girona.
Capital of the Cerdanya region in Girona, Puigcerdà sits on a hilltop above an artificial lake dating to the 13th century, its walled town built by the kings of Aragon and later fought over by France and Spain across centuries of Pyrenean history.
Built around a Benedictine monastery founded in 1038, this Girona town in Cataluña still carries its medieval shape in a Gothic church, a Romanesque bell tower, and a historic centre declared a protected ensemble.
A Catalan village in Girona whose flower-draped wooden balconies along Carrer Teixeda have drawn painters and photographers for generations, and whose streets trace the line of the old royal road between Olot and Vic.
A small Girona village where a medieval castle-palace, fragments of ancient walls, and early Christian graves speak to more than a thousand years of continuous history.
A Costa Brava fishing village on the Girona coast, where a watchtower, a botanical garden, and the ancient Camí de Ronda coastal path meet the sea.
A medieval market town in Girona whose castle, arcaded squares, and Romanesque church trace a history of counts, kings, and one of the most powerful weekly markets in the medieval Baix Empordà.
Capital of the Pla de l'Estany comarca in Girona province, Banyoles sits on the shore of the second-largest natural lake in the Iberian Peninsula, a body of water so suited to rowing that it hosted the 1992 Olympic Games and the 2004 World Rowing Championships.
A medieval hilltop village on the Costa Brava, its castle and late-Gothic church standing above the Vall d'Aro, older than the beach resort that now shares its municipal name.
One of the oldest continuously settled places in the Pyrenees, Llívia was already a Roman municipal capital — Iulia Lybica — when Julius Caesar granted it the same legal rights as Rome itself.
A planned resort town on the Costa Brava in Girona, its original early-twentieth-century architecture so carefully conceived that the historic core is now protected as a national cultural asset.
A small walled town on the Catalan coast where a Greek trading post founded by Phocaean sailors from Marseille eventually gave way to medieval walls, a fortified Gothic church, and a castle that has been burned, besieged, and rebuilt across two thousand years of history.
The historic capital of the Vall de Bas, El Mallol sits on a hilltop in Girona province where a medieval viscount's castle once governed the valley below.
One of Catalonia's highest inhabited villages, sitting at 1,550 metres above the Rigard valley in Girona, its Romanesque church preserving medieval paintings that earned the entire settlement national cultural heritage status.
A traditional fishing cove on the Costa Brava, its stone boat-houses and sea-front settlement declared a national heritage site in the Girona province of Cataluña.