The centre of the city of Girona is determined by the layout of the old quarter, which followed the borders of the ancient Roman city. In this area we find the old Benedictine monastery of Sant Pere de Galligants, the wall-top promenade, opened in 1985, the Sant Feliu church and the Arab Baths, which date from the 12th century.
One of the city's most emblematic points is the recently refurbished Rambla de la Llibertat, a beautiful shop-lined promenade. A good number of the back streets and alleyways of Girona's old quarter run between the Rambla de la Llibertat and Ciutadans street.
Our selection of preferred hotels in Girona
- Our selection of places that must be visited in Gerona:
Editor's choice : Eiffel Bridge - Sightseeing
The Eiffel Bridge was constructed where four rivers meet. Girona has got eleven bridges!! The most famous is the one that was constructed by Gustave Eiffel just before the construction of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Cross the Onyar and go to a commercial street.
Address :
Plaça de la Catedral
Opening hours :
The Cathedral museum is open from 10 to 20h
Phone :
972 21 44 26
The cathedral of Girona is the province's - and perhaps one of the world's - most important Gothic monument. The shrine was built between the 14th and 17th centuries on various successive religious buildings.
Its most salient feature is the immensity of its single Gothic nave, the construction of which was an almost unimaginable challenge for the period's master builders. Indeed, although originally three naves were planned, it was finally decided to build a single nave nearly 23 metres wide - perhaps the broadest Gothic nave ever built.
The Cathedral Museum contains two of the most significant works of medieval European art: the Creation Tapestry, an immense piece depicting various scenes of the Creation, and the Beatus, a manuscript decorated with tiny illustrations dating from the year 975, considered the richest of the codices reproducing the Beatus of Liébana's Apocalypse.
Editor's choice : Galligants - Sightseeing
Opening hours :
Open from 10 to 20h.
Phone :
972 20 26 32
The Monastery Sant Pere de Galligants is an ancient Benedictine Monastery. It is a Romanesque jewel from the XIII Century.
Editor's choice : Arab Baths - Sightseeing
Address :
Del Sac, 4-5
Opening hours :
Open from 10 to 19h.
Phone :
972 21 32 62
The Girona Arab Baths date from the XII Century
Phone :
972 21 67 61
You can get to The Jewish Quarter through the de la Força street. A quarter from the middle age, full of streets ad squares. It is one of the best kept in Europe. You can also visit the Centre Bonastruc ça Porta with its Catalan Jewish Museum. Sant Llorenç.
Address :
Sequia, 1
Opening hours :
Open everyday from 10 to 20h
Phone :
972 41 22 77
At the The Cinema Museum you can find the history of cinema with more than 30.000 objects from the old collection. Tomás Mallol gives away the projector used by the Lumiere brothers in their first public projection.
Editor's choice : Quart - Town
Town 5km from Girona, Quart keeps on making Ceramic pieces, a tradition that dates from the XVI Century. These pieces are black, with rudimentary decorations. You can also find them in green like the ones in the South of France. Good prices
Address :
Ctra. Taialà, 40
Phone :
+34 972 222 157
El Celler de Can Roca is number 11 in the in awards for the world's best restaurants 2007 by the English magazine “Restaurant”, a reference in the world of gastronomy. The same magazine awarded El Bulli as N°1 of the year..
We did have the opportunity to taste so far this restaurant, but if you stay by Girona you should certainly try this address.
Will tell you about El Celler de Can Roca very soon!
Editor's choice : Can Barris - Restaurant
Address :
Ctra. de l'Aeroport a Cassà, Km 242
Opening hours :
Every day from 1pm to 4pm and from 8pm to 1am
Phone :
+34 972 46 10 05
Can Barris - Campllong (Girona)
At Can Barris you plunge in a double Catalan tradition: that to have meals in families (numerous) and that to eat snails.
The place is rather incredible: huge standard car park motorway like, odds and ends of buildings not really pretty. But if you exceed this obstacle the inside is astonishing: vast kitchen high-tech, vast cellar wine on the entry, humidor cabinet with premium cigars, rustic decoration, large family tables, noisy but sympathetic, full of children and grandparents… Good to see that from time to time.
One thus comes here for the speciality from the place: the “Cargols” or in Spanish “Caracoles”, small Catalan snails. At Can Barris only one receipt: with tomato, presented in plates of 60,100,150,200 from 10 to 35 euros (count 50 per person). A true wonder of local savours and especially a perfect cooking; the snail being tender witch is rare in Catalonia. One makes kilometres in the area to taste this starter.
The principal dishes are quite as delicious, typical Catalan kitchen a la plancha, roasted or in sauce: shoulder of lamb (16 euros), chops of lamb (12,50 euros), rabbit (9,40 euros), squids a la plancha (11,50 euros), cod of the chief (13,60 euros) but also foie gras, carpaccio of foot of pig.
Very beautiful wine chart.
Only on reservation at the time which, you should not be surprised, one asks already for the number of snails that you wish to eat.
You understood it: Can Barris is a must be of the area of Girona!!
