6 Sights in Torroella de Montgrí, Spain (with Map and Images)

The hermitage of Santa Caterina is a moderately sized hermitage in the municipality of Torroella de Montgrí. The hermitage is hidden in the interior of the valley of Santa Caterina, north of the mountains of Ullà, Montgrí and Montplà. It is reached by a forest track that can be passed on from the road between Ullà and L'Escala. Even so, there are multiple paths and paths that lead to it, either through the Coll de Santa Caterina, between the mountain of Ullà and the Montgrí, or through the Coll d'en Garrigars, between the Montgrí and the Montplà. To the east, a path climbs up the valley bed until past the pass, where you can reach the forest track that leads from the dunes of Torroella to Sobrestany. The building was started in a late Gothic style, although mixed with Baroque modifications.

Wikipedia: Ermita de Santa Caterina (Torroella de Montgrí) (CA)

The Church of Sant Genís is the parish church of Torroella de Montgrí. It is one of the most voluminous buildings in the town and stands out in the distance when you approach the town, being visible from a large part of the Ter plain and one of the most characteristic features of the town's panorama.

Wikipedia: Església de Sant Genís (Torroella de Montgrí) (CA)

The Museum of the Mediterranean is a museum located in Torroella de Montgrí, founded in 2003, in an attempt to become an area for knowledge, reflection and research for the problems and worries that affect citizens in the 21st century. It is housed in Can Quintana, a 16th-century building. It is dedicated to the knowledge and communication of the Mediterranean Sea and uses the natural sounds, human sounds and music to show the reality of the land, the history and the culture of the village of Torroella, connected with the others Mediterranean cultures and towns. It pretends to become a site to think about the nearest territory and the main issues that affect the different Mediterranean nations.

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Puig Rodó, the name that the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia attributes to the mountain popularly known as Muntanya d'Ullà or Puig Anill is a mountain of 307.9 meters above sea level between the municipalities of Torroella de Montgrí and Ullà, in the region of Baix Empordà. At the top there is a geodesic vertex. It is a tapered mountain in a N-W/SE direction that leaves the Santa Caterina Valley to the north. On its southern slope is the Cau del Duc d'Ullà of archaeological interest. To the west is Mas Blanc and a colourful open-air quarry. The mountain and its bed is also known as Area 21 by some people. It has four peaks of different altitudes popularly known as the Peak of Gaea, the Peak of Hades, the Peak of Cronus and the Peak of Aphrodite.

Wikipedia: Puig Rodó (Massís del Montgrí) (CA)

The archaeological site of Santa Maria del Palau is a medieval site that belongs to the municipality of Torroella de Montgrí. It is part of the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia. It consists of a small Romanesque temple in ruins and the remains of a small settlement and the complex would have its origins in Roman times. The complex is included in the Natural Park of Montgrí, the Medes Islands and the Baix Ter and, although it belongs to the municipality of Torroella de Montgrí, it is located closer to the towns of Bellcaire d'Empordà and L'Escala.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria del Palau (CA)

The Palau Solterra Museum is one of the cultural centers of the Vila Casas Foundation located, located in the palace of the same name in Torroella de Montgrí (Girona), a town of the Baix Empordà region. It opened in 2000, and nowadays it houses about three hundred contemporary photographs of the city, artists from various parts of the world, including Chema Madoz, Alberto García Álix, Toni Catany, Otto Lloyd, Xavier Miserachs, Ouka Lele and Frank Horvat, among many others.

Wikipedia: Palau Solterra Museum (EN)