Peratallada

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.