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Vall-llobrega

Vall-llobrega is a small village and municipality in the Baix Empordà on the Costa Brava, with fewer than a thousand inhabitants. It lies in a green valley on the easternmost foothills of the Gavarres massif, a few kilometres inland from Palamós, whose municipality borders it to the east and south. The valley is drained by the Vall-llobrega stream, which joins the Aubi and reaches the sea near Palamós. The highest point is the hill of Montagut, 263 metres high, crowned by the Dolmen of Montagut from the third or second millennium BC. Remains of a Roman villa at Vilarenys show that the valley was lived in from the first to the sixth century. The village separated from Sant Joan de Palamós in 1799 and became a municipality of its own in the early nineteenth century. Its landmarks are the roofless Romanesque church of Sant Mateu from the eleventh century, whose legend of a warning wild goat gave the village its coat of arms, and the newer seventeenth-century parish church. Farmhouses such as Can Menció and the thousand-year-old olive tree of Mas Genesta stand among dryland fields, vineyards and woods. It suits travellers who want a quiet rural base with the beaches, coves and harbour of Palamós only a short drive away. Vall-llobrega has its own exit, 328, on the C-31 coast road, and Girona airport is about 40 kilometres away.