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Sant Feliu de Guixols - Culture |
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In Sant Feliu de Guixols you can find a fishing and a sport harbour.
The city has also a municipal theatre, a indoor sports place and indoor swimming pool. Sant Feliu is considered a very peaceful and familiar place. Only 3 car-minutes away is the city of "Playa de Aro", famous for its night-life, especially among the youth. Diversion is assured. We also have historical monuments, as for example, the Romanesque church and with monastery, museums and other interesting buildings. The restaurants in this area are recognized for there good Mediterranean cooking, based on fresh fish and meat of excellent quality. Our geographic situation is privileged for being near the french frontier (one hour by car), one car-hour from the city of Barcelona and 30 minutes from the city of Girona with its airport, railway and bus connections.
Sant
Feliu de Guixols is an eminently Mediterranean town situated at the heart
of the Costa Brava and surrounded by hills with woods of pine and holm
oak, which has become an important holiday resort offering visitors a wide
range of services. All year round Sant Feliu has an intense commercial
activity, and the municipal council organises numerous leisure and
cultural activities, in addition to maintaining the town's most
deeply-rooted traditions. Thanks to its pleasant, temperate climate, Sant
Feliu de Guixols is an ideal place for relaxing at any time of the year.
The town conserves a rich and surprising historical and architectural
heritage. The
coastline surrounding Sant Feliu is full of contrasts, with stretches of
cliffs interrupted by coves and bays with fine sand beaches. The town's
beaches concentrate a large number of activities and offer all kinds of
water sports. In
Sant Feliu you'll find a holiday made to measure for you. The
natural setting
Gastronomy
Sant
Feliu has always lived facing the sea, and its gastronomy enjoys great
prestige, still conserving the essences of its maritime tradition in fish
dishes such as the "suquet de peix", "suquet d'anxoves",
black rice, sea urchins or stockfish - but Sant Feliu is especially known
for its blue fish. Throughout
the year the town presents important gastronomic events and a wide variety
of seasonal cuisine. |
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The
city of Sant Feliu de Guixols is situated in the centre of the Costa
Brava. Its climate can be considered as spring time during 365 days of the
year. Surrounded by natural landscapes with cliffs finishing in
paradisiacal beaches;- some of them are only accessible from the sea by
boat therefore the name of "Costa Brava" (wild coast).
The
city has a large sea-promenade surrounded by pine trees and palms. There
is an open market-place where fresh vegetables and fruits are sold, and in
another, closed one, where you can buy fresh fish caught the night before
by our small fisher fleet.
San
Feliu de Guixols. This is already the coast of Baix Emporda and the
countryside remains rugged as far as Begur, in the way it is typical for
La Selva. As from that of Pals, the beaches are open and level. In Sant
Feliu, there was an Iberian settlement on which the town, a clerical
foundation, was built. It dates from the 12C and stands on the site of the
Benedictine Monastery of Sant Feliu. From the observation platform of Sant
Elm, the whole bay can be overlooked. It had a lot of maritime traffic and
cork industries which made it into the second most important town of
L'Empordà in the 14C. Impressive are the church and other elements
of the old Romanesque monastery with the famous Porta Ferrada, a
beautiful, perhaps Mozarab portico of the 11C. Along the beautiful
promenade, the modernist buildings of the Casino dels Nois and Can Patxot
deserve attention. There is a museum with archaeological objects,
ceramics, etc. Its sandy beach next to the anchorage is a twin of the one
at Sant Pol, 3km away. Costa Brava.
The
countryside surrounding Sant Feliu is a permanent invitation to take an
outing by bike or on foot. The town is set in the Aro valley and
surrounded by important natural reserves such as the Gavarres hills, the
Montclar mountain or the Cadiretes massif, with typically Mediterranean
woods of pine and holm oak and countless paths passing through dense
vegetation. The coastal paths reveal a landscape of cliffs, coves and
bays, and beaches where the heritage of the first summer residents is
maintained in the presence of houses in the Modernist style.
