Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Castelló d'Empúries, Spain

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Number of sights 7 sights
Distance 1.1 km
Ascend 15 m
Descend 14 m

Explore Castelló d'Empúries in Spain with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Sight 1: Communal Clothes Washing Area

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Communal Clothes Washing Area

Public laundry is a laundry in the municipality of Castelló d'Empúries protected as a cultural asset of local interest.

Wikipedia: Rentador públic (Castelló d'Empúries) (CA)

113 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Flour Museum

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'The Castelló d'Empúries Flour Mill and Eco-Museum' is a factory that was open from the late 19th century and during the first half of the 20th century, built on the remains of three medieval flour mills. The Museum opened to the public in 1998, following a renovation carried out by the municipality. It was converted into an ecomuseum with displays covering the flour industry in Catalonia and the great changes that took place in flour production during the second half of the 19th century. It is part of the network of Science and Technology Museums of Catalonia.

Wikipedia: Flour Mill and Eco-Museum, Castelló d'Empúries (EN), Website

187 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Basílica de Santa Maria

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Basílica de Santa Maria Josep Renalias Lohen11 / CC BY 3.0

The Santa Maria Basilica, located in the municipality of Castelló d'Empúries in Girona, Catalonia, Spain, has for centuries been regarded as the Empordà Cathedral, although papal authorities have never granted it this rank. The building is the second largest in the Costa Brava, after the Girona Cathedral, and is big enough to justify cathedral status. It is a Gothic building begun in the thirteenth century that replaced a primitive Romanesque church from the tenth century. A few vestiges of this building remain, such as the first floors of the bell tower and the grant baptismal. It was completed in the fifteenth century, when the marble facade and the alabaster altarpiece of the main altar were finished. It contains a museum known as El Tresor, which contains a large collection of religious jewelry.

Wikipedia: Basílica de Santa Maria de Castelló d'Empúries (EN)

145 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Llotja

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Llotja de Mar is a building in the municipality of Castelló d'Empúries included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.

Wikipedia: Llotja de Mar (Castelló d'Empúries) (CA)

124 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: Museu de la Cúria i la Presó

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Presó Vella de Castelló d'Empúries is a building in the municipality of Castelló d'Empúries included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia. It currently houses the Museum of Medieval History.

Wikipedia: Presó Vella de Castelló d'Empúries (CA), Website

106 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Palau dels Comtes d'Empúries

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The convent of Sant Domènec was a former Dominican establishment founded in the town of Castelló d'Empúries in 1317, which maintained a community of friars until its exclusion after the burning of convents of 1835. The original units of the convent were outside the enclosure Wall to the west of it in an uncertain location space, which, destroyed or badly damaged by wars and looting, in the middle of the eighteenth century a new convent was built at its current location within the Clos Murallat, in the Mercadal district, between The Ball Game Square and that of Catalonia. This new convent also occurs occasionally the name of Palau Comtal, to believe the tradition that was the plot of the lords of the county of Empúries. Today, the convent remains are protected as a cultural asset of national interest and houses various municipal units, including the Castellón City Council, a nursing home and a library. on the remains of the declared countal palace. It is inside the old walled nucleus of Castellón

Wikipedia: Convent de Sant Domènec (Castelló d'Empúries) (CA)

439 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Torre dels Carlins

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Torre dels Carlins

Torre dels Carlins or Torre Carlina is a tower outside the old walled nucleus of Castelló d'Empúries, southwest of the town and very close to the Muga. It is currently bounded by Paseo de las Oques and Calle dels Calciners.in the town declared a cultural asset of national interest. The tower was built next to the river, in the second half of the nineteenth century, by the "Regimiento de Toledo", destined to renovate the fortifications of defense of the town against the Carlists. In November 1874 the Castellón Fire took place, a bloody battle favorable to the Carlist forces of General Savalls.

Wikipedia: Torre dels Carlins (CA)

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