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Torrent

Torrent is a small village and municipality in the Baix Empordà, in the province of Girona. Its territory covers almost 8 km² and stretches over the last north-eastern foothills of the Gavarres, together with part of the alluvial plain west of the Begur massif. The Torrent stream comes down from the hills past the village and drains towards the sea at the southern half of the beach of Pals. The road from Girona to Palamós crosses the western part of the municipality, where the Revolts de Torrent pass offers a wide view over the plain, the Montgrí massif, the sea and the Medes Islands. The village sits at 44 metres at the foot of the hills, about thirty houses gathered around the parish church of Sant Vicenç, rebuilt in the eighteenth century. Remains of Torrent castle still stand, including a round-arched gate with large voussoirs and a circular tower at the north-east corner of the walls. From 1377 the castle belonged to the lords of Cruïlles and Peratallada, and in 1770 King Charles III made Felip de Cruïlles marquis of Torrent. The municipality also includes Torrentí, a hamlet of scattered farmhouses with the fortified seventeenth-century Can Figa, and the Baroque hermitage of Sant Llop. It suits travellers looking for a quiet rural base between the Gavarres and the coast. Several houses keep eighteenth-century lintels with inscriptions and decorated eaves, small details of a village that has changed little.