Blanes and Tossa de Mar: Tourism Culture and beaches on the Costa Brava

The beach of San Francesco in Blanes

One of the most outstanding beaches in the municipality of Blanes is San Francisco, which has the distinctive Blue Flag for its excellent facilities and the cleanliness of their waters and sand. This is a beach surrounded by pine trees and ideal for families because of its size and facilities. Access from the village are various: you can reach both the botanical garden Marimurtra as Sant Joan. Is 220 meters long and 35 meters wide and usually the occupancy level is high. This semi-urban beach sand composition of which is also known as Cala Bona, rental service has hammocks and parasols, showers and paper, but instead has no access for the disabled and diving areas.

Do not hesitate to rent an apartment on the Costa Brava to visit this pristine beach.

Walled Tossa de Mar Tossa Bay has a medieval walled town, Vila Vella, in a small promontory on the beach, with seven circular towers. Originally estimated in the twelfth century to prevent hacker attacks. Inside are the remains of a church and the palace of the governor of the fourteenth century. Near the complex there are archaeological finds of what was once a Roman villa of the fourth century the Roman town of Els Ametllers. City has a museum inside the enclosure, with archaeological collections of local and foreign painting, sculpture and glass.

The walls of the Vila Vella is the symbol that best represents Tossa de Mar and are considered the only example of a fortified medieval village that exists on the Catalan coast. Were built, as has been said, in the twelfth century and rebuilt in the late fourteenth century, by the Governor placi. They are kept in very good condition with crenellated walls, four towers and three cylindrical towers, the Torre del Codolar, Torre d'en Joan and the Torre de les Hores. Its interior was home more than eighty houses and in the fifteenth century there arose a Gothic church, now in ruins, which are classified as National Monument.