Hotels in Begur

Begur

Begur is a hilltop town and municipality in the Baix Empordà, one of the best-known destinations of the Costa Brava, with some four thousand inhabitants who become more than forty thousand in summer. The old town sits about two hundred metres above the sea and two kilometres from the coast, on the southern slope of the hill crowned by Begur Castle, rebuilt in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Its streets keep the houses of the indianos, emigrants who made their fortune in Cuba in the nineteenth century and came home to build colonial-style mansions, and a walking route links them. Almost the whole municipality is taken up by the Begur massif, a group of hills covered in holm oak and pine that reaches 323 metres at Son Ric. Along the coast, small torrents have carved a string of coves that grew from fishing hamlets into seaside villages: Sa Riera, Aiguafreda, Sa Tuna, Platja Fonda, Fornells and Aiguablava. Sa Riera is the largest and busiest beach, flanked by the Illa Roja cove and Platja del Racó, while the rocky coast of the Ses Negres marine reserve stretches south towards Cap de Sa Sal. Aiguablava is home to a Parador, and inland the old village of Esclanyà keeps its Romanesque core. Begur is a stage on the GR 92 coastal footpath, which leads south through Sa Tuna and Fornells towards Tamariu, Llafranc and Calella and north inland towards Pals. It suits couples, families and walkers who want crystal-clear coves, snorkelling and coastal paths with a characterful town as their base. Begur lies between Palafrugell, Regencós and Pals, and is reached by road from Palafrugell or from the Empordà plain.