Calella de Palafrugell is a small holiday resort and fishing village in Catalonia, Spain on the Costa Brava, near Palafrugell and a short distance along the coast from Llafranc. The Costa Brava is a coastal region of northeastern Catalonia, Spain, in the comarques of Alt Empordà, Baix Empordà and A resort is a place used for Relaxation or Recreation, attracting visitors for Holidays or Vacations Resorts are places towns or sometimes Catalonia (Cataluña Catalunya Aranese: Catalonha) is an Autonomous Community in the northeast part of Spain. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Costa Brava is a coastal region of northeastern Catalonia, Spain, in the comarques of Alt Empordà, Baix Empordà and Palafrugell is a Municipality in the Mediterranean Costa Brava, located near Palamós in the comarca of Baix Llafranc is one of three coastal towns belonging to the municipality of Palafrugell. It should not be confused with the larger, more commercialised resort of Calella, which is further south towards Barcelona. Calella is a tourist town on the Costa del Maresme, 56 km from Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. Barcelona ( Catalan bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish baɾθeˈlona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia
Calella de Palafrugell has an excellent setting and, whilst busy in the summer season, it does not have the large hotels and mass tourism of other Costa Brava resorts such as Lloret de Mar. Lloret de Mar (ʎuˈɾɛt dəˈma in Catalan is a coastal town in Catalonia on the Mediterranean primarily known as a tourist resort The coastline of the town stretches some two kilometres south to the El Golfet beach - part of the Cap Roig headland where beautiful Botanical gardens are located. Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of Plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes
The town has a number of good standard hotels, apartments and, at a distance from the beach, some campsites. Like much of the picturesque section of the Costa Brava, north of Palamos and south of L'Estartit, Calella has moved steadily upmarket in recent times and offers some very high quality restaurants and hotels - at prices to match. Palamós is a town and municipality in the Mediterranean Costa Brava, located in the comarca of Baix Empordà, in the province of thumb|300px|L'Esartit port L'Estartit is a small town and seaside resort on the Costa Brava, in the north-eastern coast of Spain. The beaches are Blue Flag standard. A Blue Flag beach is a maritime or freshwater Recreational Beach that has met stringent quality standards during the whole of the previous bathing season
Further information/references
- Catalunya and the Costa Brava (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) ISBN 978-1740593816
- Costa Brava (Rough Guide Directions) ISBN 978-1843534396
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