5 Sights in l'Escala, Spain (with Map and Images)

Santa Maria de Gràcia or Mare de Déu de Gràcia was a convent that has now disappeared in the municipality of L'Escala within what are now the ruins and excavations of Empúries. Practically collapsed at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the few remains of the church were restored and integrated into the Monographic Museum of Empúries. The convent, founded by the Servites in 1606, was half a kilometre south of Sant Martí and one kilometre north of the town of L'Escala on a hill near the Gulf of Roses. In the convent complex, the church is to the north. The community was made up of about ten friars. There are references to the presence of an image of a found, dark-haired Madonna. The convent was exclaustrated in 1835 and fell into disrepair until the Board of Museums began its remodelling as the headquarters of the Museum of Empúries during the 1910s, becoming its physical headquarters, warehouses and exhibition. In the Museum's exhibition, among others, the works Sacrifice of Iphigenia and Asclepius of Empúries stand out.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria de Gràcia d'Empúries (CA), Website

The Solitud house, bequeathed to the Albert family, has a modernist garden with a gardener's house known as the Clos del Pastor, in reference to the novel. The house had been turned into a museum by the master composer Lluís Albert, nephew of Caterina Albert. It is a site in the municipality of L'Escala protected as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest, or BCIL.

Wikipedia: Casa de Caterina Albert (CA)

The Montgó is a 95-meter mountain located in the municipality of L'Escala, in the Catalan region of Alt Empordà. At the top there is a geodesic vertex and a defense tower. It enters the Mediterranean Sea, forming the Montgó point that closes Cala Montgó to the north. It is the southernmost point of the Gulf of Roses. Geologically it is a calcareous outcrop. Its urbanization is extensive although it has not progressed in extension since the 1988 coastal law.

Wikipedia: Montgó (l'Escala) (CA)

Anchovy and Salt Museum is a museum in the town of L'Escala, Catalonia, Spain. It was opened in 2006 as an institution dedicated to displaying the cultural heritage of the village. The permanent exhibition shows the history of fishing from the 16th century to the present day, especially the salted anchovy, an industry which, over the centuries, has been driving force of the town and has made it famous around the world.

Wikipedia: Anchovy and Salt Museum (EN), Website

The Lampadòfor is a sculpture by the artist Rosa Serra i Puigvert located in the Mirador de l'Oberta, at the beginning of the pedestrian promenade in Empúries, in L'Escala, inaugurated on June 11, 1992 to commemorate the arrival of the Olympic flame on the occasion of the Barcelona Olympic Games.

Wikipedia: Lampadòfor (CA)