Pals, Costa Brava
A restored medieval hill village with a long dune-backed beach below.
Costa Brava · Girona
About Pals
Pals is a golden-stone medieval village of arches, stone stairways and a Romanesque tower, restored painstakingly through the twentieth century.
Four kilometres away, Platja de Pals is one of the longest and least built-up beaches on the Costa Brava, backed by dunes and rice fields.
Pals sits on the Costa Brava in the province of Girona.
Open the larger mapThings to do
- The Gothic quarter and Torre de les Hores
- The Mirador Josep Pla viewpoint over the rice fields
- Cycling the flat lanes to the beach
Best beaches
- Platja de Pals — long, sandy and dune-backed
Restaurants
- Arròs de Pals in the village restaurants
Family activities
- Bike ride from village to beach
- Wide, quiet sand
Walks
- The village walls circuit
- The rice-field lanes towards the beach
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