In 1908, archaeological excavations began in Empúries. The Junta de Museus, under the direction of Josep Puig i Cadafalch and with the support of Enric Prat de la Riba, had bought the land with the intention of studying the first Greek settlement on the Catalan coast. The team of archaeologists, …
In a natural bay between the rivers Ter and Fluvià there is the monumental complex of Empúries, about 30 hectares where the remains of a Greek city and another from romans are preserved. It seems that the settlement of Empúries dates back to the Bronze Age, in the ninth century …
We missed the landscapes of Catalonia and now that confinement is over, here we take them to you. We have started with a coastal landscape at the exceptional coast of Costa Brava. Beach even on cloudy days. Our first destination was the Costa Brava. Girona province coastline is an endless …
The most magical summer night On the night of June 23, one of the most popular celebrations in Catalonia takes place, the “Revetlla de Sant Joan”. All the towns and cities of Catalonia celebrate the festivity of Saint John and, although not everybody do so in the same way, the …
The bombings suffered in Barcelona during the Civil War left the Plaza de la Villa de Madrid of Baarcelona in very poor condition. In 1954, while the repairs were being done, they found the remains of about 85 tombs from the Roman period of the 1st and 2nd Centuries AD. …
L’ou com balla (the egg as it dances) is a tradition of the Corpus Christi holiday that consists of putting an empty egg in a spring of water, so the egg dances with the force of the water. To empty the egg, a small hole is made, which is then …
