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Girona is a popular destination for tourists and Barcelona day-trippers - the train journey from Barcelona Sants to Girona takes approximately forty minutes on high-speed trains, eighty with express ones and ninety with regional ones.
Its capital and largest city is Girona, with an urban area (including the neighbouring municipalities of Salt, Sarrià de Ter and Vilablareix) representing, with a total population of 144,709, 19.2% of the population. The Girona area acts as an industrial, commercial and service hub for a significant part of the province.
Blanes is a popular tourist town, and it is known for the Concurs de Focs d'Artifici during the Santa Anna festival; this event includes many fireworks. Other places of interest include botanical gardens , coves such as the Cala Bona , and beaches that are surrounded by mountains.
the Costa Brava Girona Tourism Board, a body of the tourism industry of the Province of Girona, promotes the brand name Costa Brava as an area of 5,885 square kilometres (2,272 sq mi). By this definition, Costa Brava includes the coastal comarques of Alt Empordà , Baix Empordà , Selva and the inland comarques of Pla de l'Estany and Gironès .
Comarques Gironines (Catalan pronunciation: [kuˈmar.kəs ʒi.ɾuˈni.nəs]; English: Girona counties) or the Girona region [1] is the northeasternmost of the nine regions of Catalonia. It has an area of 5,558 km² and 761,690 inhabitants as of 2022.
It is accessible through Girona Airport, some distance north. The GR 92 long-distance footpath, which roughly follows the length of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, has a staging point at Tossa de Mar. Stage 10 links northwards to Sant Feliu de Guíxols , a distance of 20.2 kilometres (12.6 mi), whilst stage 11 links southwards to Lloret de ...
Cadaqués' Blue House (Casa Blava) built in 1915.Cadaqués' Cafe de La Habana video The adjacent village of Port Lligat, with Dalí's home at right. In the early 20th century [citation needed] a large number of inhabitants of Cadaqués travelled or emigrated to Cuba (the figure has been estimated as one third of a village of approximately 1200 people).
Empuriabrava, residential marina Empuriabrava's wide sand beach Footage of Empuriabrava's commercial arcade walkway The Torre panoràmica. Empuriabrava (Spanish: Ampuriabrava) is a community in the municipality of Castelló d'Empúries, in the Alt Empordà (Costa Brava, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain).