10h - Monday
Route of the visit: medieval bridge, Jewish baths (mikveh) and synagogue.
Duration: 30 min.
Prior reservation at the Besalú Tourist Office is essential.
Date
From 12 of July at1 of September of 2024
Location
Besalú Tourist Office
Price
€2.5. Children -12, free. Disabled, 50%
10h - Monday
Route of the visit: medieval bridge, Jewish baths (mikveh) and synagogue.
Duration: 30 min.
Prior reservation at the Besalú Tourist Office is essential.
Related routes and excursions
La Garrotxa is a county that is associated with a great variety of art forms.
A team of architects, RCR, has placed La Garrotxa at the forefront of architecture. Their unique skill of marrying the landscape and architecture has been rewarded by many different awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize (2017).
This GR crosses the whole Iberian Peninsula along the southern flanks of the Pyrenees and Cantabrian mountains. It runs from Empuries in the east to Finisterre in the west, passing through the Catalan pre-Pyrenees from the Costa Brava to Aragon.
The intense summer heat is an incentive to search for places to cool off, places where you can rest and at the same time get to know some of the other delights of La Garrotxa.
This is a flat walk that will take you to the ruins of the old castle and the church of Sant Martí in the hamlet of Dosquers. Also highly recommendable by bike.
This GR runs from La Jonquera to Aiguafreda through medieval towns and villages such as Besalú and Santa Pau, and natural protected areas including La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone and Montseny natural parks, and the Collsacabra, Savassona and Tavertet Cliffs.
Although some structures from the 11th century do still stand, most of the surviving medieval buildings in La Garrotxa date from the 12th and 13th centuries.
Monasteries, medieval villages, churches and, above all, castles are today some of the most important reminders of the medieval past of La Garrotxa.