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Regencós

Regencós is a small village in the Baix Empordà on the Costa Brava, one of the smallest municipalities in the comarca, with about three hundred inhabitants and just over six square kilometres. It lies at the foot of the Quermany Gros hill, on the slopes of the Begur massif, and borders Begur, Pals, Palafrugell and Torrent. Its core is a cluster of some fifty stone houses around the parish church of Sant Vicenç, finished around 1815, with a nave, side chapels and a polygonal apse. The narrow cobbled streets follow the line of the old walls of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and two round towers, gateways and stretches of wall with arrow slits can still be seen. From 1312 the village belonged to the Cruïlles-Peratallada lords, together with Begur and Esclanyà, and it became a municipality of its own after the fall of the old seigneurial regime. The chimney of the Cal Torradillo brickworks, active from 1872 to 1983, recalls the craft of making tiles and bricks that once sustained the village alongside farming. The surrounding fields still grow cereals, fodder, vines and olives, giving Regencós a quiet rural setting between farmland and forest. CNN included it in a list of the most beautiful villages in Europe, praising its medieval remains, its church, its stone houses and its tranquillity. The coves and beaches of Begur and Palafrugell are only a short drive away, so the village combines rural calm with easy access to the sea and to walking routes in the massif. It suits couples and travellers looking for a peaceful base in the Empordà countryside, close to Pals, Peratallada and the coast; a local road links it with Begur.