The Old City
Girona
A medieval city that eats remarkably well.
The Old City
A medieval city that eats remarkably well.
Introduction
Girona rewards the walker. Its Gothic cathedral holds the widest nave in Christendom; below it, the Call — one of Europe's best-preserved medieval Jewish quarters — folds into shadowed stairways and courtyards. Walk the Roman walls at golden hour, cross the Eiffel-built iron bridge over the Onyar's painted houses, then eat: this small city carries an outsized culinary reputation, and earns it nightly.
Stay in Girona
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Find your stayNot to be missed
Ninety steps up to the widest Gothic nave in the world — go at opening, before the groups.
The medieval Jewish quarter; the Museu d'Història dels Jueus tells its story with rare care.
Walk the old city walls end to end for rooftop views to the Pyrenees.
The river-front houses, best photographed from the red iron Pont de les Peixateries Velles.
A twelfth-century Romanesque bathhouse, small and quietly beautiful.
El Celler de Can Roca books out months ahead; the family's ice-cream parlour, Rocambolesc, takes no reservations.
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Plan your visit
Spring
Mar–May · Temps de Flors in May carpets the old town in flowers.
Summer
Jun–Aug · Hot afternoons, long shadowed lanes, the coast twenty minutes away.
Autumn
Sep–Nov · Cool stone, good kitchens, the city returned to its own.
Winter
Dec–Feb · Mist on the Onyar, museums to yourself, serious eating weather.
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