The best walks and hikes around Vilajuïga

shepherd's hut undergoing renovation

The dolmens, as fascinating as they are magical and mysterious ❤️

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Route along paths without technical difficulty.

The Puig d'Esquers is an example of the typical Empordà mountain: sea, mountains, sun, wind, dolmens, Romanesque churches and great views presided over by the Canigó. There are several ascent routes, both from the coast and from the interior. We did it from the Coll de Tres Camins passing by the church of Sant Miquel de Colera. Technical sheet: Altitude: 606 m. Easy excursion. Ascent by track and trail. Difference in level: 220 m. Distance: 2.7 km. Duration: 1h 5min (one way). Recommended for children over 4 years old. Cartography: Topographic map of Catalonia 1:25,000. Protected Natural Areas. Albera Natural Site of National Interest. Cartographic Institute of Catalonia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2hmAAluS_8

The Church of San Martín de Pau was built in Romanesque times. In the first phase, in the 11th century, the semicircular apse and part of the single nave were built, made of small pebbles. The rest of the nave and the façade correspond to a second phase, already between the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century, and were built with well-crafted granite ashlars. The façade has five semicircular arches in gradation that end in two columns on both sides of the door. Above the columns, capitals that combine plant decorations with shapes of animals and monsters. Some members of the Pau family chose to be buried inside the church, as some funerary tombstones from the 14th century that we found inside remind us. Over the centuries, the church has been reforming; The sacristy and a chapel dedicated to the Virgin of the Rosary were added, among other modifications. The furniture, the altarpiece and other ancient liturgical objects were lost during the first days of the Civil War, in 1936.

The Church of Sant Feliu de Vilajuïga is a Romanesque church included in the inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia that, due to its characteristics, could be located in the middle of the 11th century. The Church is located in the historic center of the Upper Empordà population. Inside, it preserves a very simple monolithic baptismal font from the 11th-12th century and the Romanesque nave, but not the primitive head. Currently, this old nave functions as the vestibule of the temple that was added to the east end in the 18th and 19th centuries. The Romanesque nave has the door on the west facade, formed by a lintel on which there is a plain tympanum followed by an archivolt decorated with saw teeth and by an external dust guard of plane and bow. A cavet continues horizontally between the lintel and the tympanum. It is covered with a barrel vault, slightly overhanging, supported by two toral arches of a semi-circular point on adjoined pillars with imposts of plan and bevel section, made with narrow purlins and well-squared granite stones.

Included in the inventory of the architectural heritage of Catalonia, this Romanesque church dates back to the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, as it was built in different phases. It is located in the historic center of Pau.