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Located 11km south of the centre is
Girona-Costa Brava airport
, and just off the
services from Girona-Costa Brava airport to Girona's main bus/train station (€2.15,
25 minutes) in connection with flights. See
Click here
for transport to/from Bar-
celona. A
taxi
(
872 97 50 00)
to/from the airport to central Girona costs around
€22/25 day/night.
Train
Girona is on the train line between Barcelona, Figueres and Portbou on the French
border. There are more than 20 trains per day to Figueres (€10.50 to €13.70, 30 to
40 minutes) and Barcelona (from €14.90, 1½ hours), and about 15 to Portbou or
Cerbère (France) or both (from €12, 50 minutes to one hour). The train station is
about 400 metres west of the tourist office.
Empúries
Empúries
(
www.mac.cat
;
adult/child €3/free; 10am-8pm Jun-Sep, to 6pm Oct-
May)
, around fifty minutes' (47km) drive from Girona was probably the first, and
certainly one of the most important, Greek colonies on the Iberian Peninsula.
In 218 BC, Roman legions clanked ashore here to cut off Hannibal's supply lines
in the Second Punic War. About 195 BC, they set up a military camp and, by 100
BC, had added a town. A century later it had merged with the Greek one. Emporiae,
as the place was then known, was abandoned in the late 3rd century AD, after raids
by Germanic tribes.
The
Greek town
lies in the lower part of the site, closer to the shore. Main points
of interest include the thick southern defensive walls, the site of the Asklepion (a
shrine to the god of medicine) with a copy of his statue found here, and the Agora
(town square), with remnants of the early Christian basilica and the Greek
stoa
(market complex) beside it.
Highlights of the
Roman town
include the mosaic floors of a 1st-century-BC
house, the Forum and ancient walls. Outside the walls are the remains of an oval
amphitheatre.
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