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Santa Cristina d'Aro

Santa Cristina d'Aro is a small town in the Aro valley in the Baix Empordà, at the crossroads of the roads from Girona and Barcelona to Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Palamós. The municipality also takes in the medieval village of Romanyà de la Selva, the villages of Solius and Bell-lloc, and reaches the sea at Canyet de Mar. On its outskirts lies the Costa Brava golf course, set among pines and oaks a few kilometres inland from the beach at Platja d'Aro. Between 1892 and 1969 a narrow-gauge railway linked the town with Girona and the port of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, and its route is now a greenway for walking and cycling. The town has two unusual museums: one devoted to zarzuela, Spain's light opera, and to the baritone Enrique Sacristán. The other, the House of Magic, shows the collection of the illusionist Xevi in a farmhouse from 1800 and was the first museum of its kind in Spain. Many people who work in the nearby resorts live here, which gives it the feel of a lived-in village rather than a resort. Its quiet setting among woods and fields suits golfers, cyclists on the greenway and families who want to be close to the busy coast without staying in it. Sant Feliu de Guíxols, S'Agaró and Platja d'Aro are all a short drive away. Girona-Costa Brava Airport is about half an hour by road and Barcelona around an hour and a quarter.