Discover the city of Girona

El Puente Eiffel Girona

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.

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.

The Monastery Sant Pere de Galligants is an ancient Benedictine Monastery. It is a Romanesque jewel from the XIII Century.

The Girona Arab Baths date from the XII Century

Girona

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.

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.

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

El Celler de Can Roca - Girona

3 stars at Michelin’s Guide and best restaurant 2013 according to "World's 50 Best Restaurants": El Celler de Can Roca is from now on the top of the world...

The restaurant of the 3 Rocca’s brothers is in Girona - at only one hour of car north of Barcelona. Less long than for booking a table. But it is normal considering the originality of the carte that you will be able to discover with a Tasting menu at 135€ and Festival menu at 165€. 

Each dish is just sublimely good and beautiful like this crusty gamba laying on the seabed: on a white plate, the decoration made of algae resembles indeed at the sand and the small rocks of a seabed.

The chart of the wines is simply regarded as one of best of Spain.

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!!