Activities & fitness

As a cycling lover, no matter where in the province of Girona you are, no matter how much free time you have or what your level of fitness is or isn’t, rest assured—somewhere nearby lies a cycling route just for you. Family cycling, multi-day cycling, extremely challenging mountain terrain cycling… You name it, Girona has […]

Catalonia is without a doubt a paradise for cyclists. Countless cycling routes are maintained by municipalities, with detailed maps, route descriptions, websites, and tourism offices encouraging visitors and residents alike to hop into a saddle. One cycling route in particular stands out from the rest—officially opened in 2013, Pirinexus is a ready-made solution for those […]

A hiking and cycling route that runs between Palafrugell and Palamós in the Costa Brava is lovingly called the Little Train Route (Ruta del Tren Petit). At a length of just 6 kilometres, it’s one of the shortest Greenways in Catalonia, that has no viaducts crossing over deep valleys, no long dark tunnels, steep climbs […]

In 1993, the government of Spain in partnership with RENFE and other transit agencies in the nation carried out the inventory of the disused railway lines across the country. The total distance of the railways still in place but with no trains running turned out to be about 8000 km. Following the example of their […]

The Greenways (Viás Verdes) is a network of hiking and cycling trails in Spain that run along long-abandoned railways. The ministry of transport is in charge of maintenance and upkeep of the Greenways, having been overseeing the network for the last 20 years, but the routes are open for anyone and everyone regardless of whether […]

The stone oak tree Alzina de la Font de Can Massanet in the pueblo of Vilafant outside of Figueres is one of the 250 so-called monumental trees (árboles monumentales) of the Costa Brava protected by the Generalitat of Catalunya. The tree protection by-laws that cover trees of exceptional age, size, beauty and/or historical value were […]

The abundance of excellently maintained hiking trails and routes in Spain is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. It’s unclear whether Spaniards cheerfully go hiking because the existing trail network is great or whether the infrastructure is maintained so well because numerous hikers would prefer not to go missing on said trails. Either way, currently, […]

Vies Braves was a one-of-a-kind network of sea swimming lanes and open water trails organized in the Costa Brava by Miquel Sunyer. Miquel Sunyer is the Catalan star of long-distance swimming. Having made sea swimming his life, he’s no stranger to the struggles of confident swimmers having limited ways to spread their wings in the […]