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What to see and do in el Far d'Empordà

What to see and do in el Far d'Empordà (Alt Empordà, Girona): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments

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What to see and do in el Far d'Empordà

el Far d'Empordà
Village
El Far d'Empordà is a small village in the Alt Empordà comarca, very close to Figueres, with 628 inhabitants (INE 2025), on land once full of ponds, now drained and turned into farmland. The population clusters around the church of Sant Martí, from the 12th-13th centuries, raised on a hill from which the Empordà plain can be seen and from which the village's own toponym is believed to derive; it retains in its doors the original Romanesque-period wrought ironwork and is believed to have been part of the old castle. In 1299 the count of Empúries, Ponce Hugo IV, ordered a castle built, whose 13th-century watchtower guarded the plain against pirate attacks.
Castle of el Far
Monument
The Castell del Far, which gives its name to the municipality of el Far d'Empordà, is a former border castle declared Bien de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection), of which only remains of the enclosure survive, integrated into later constructions in the hamlet. The best-preserved section, 38 metres long, is a sloped wall of unworked stone that borders the church of Sant Martí del Far to the south; it turns to the northeast in another section of which 17 metres survive. It was built in 1294, in the time of Count Ponç-Hug d'Empúries. In 1793, during the Guerra Gran, it was fortified by the Count of la Unión and later occupied by the French; during the Guerra del Francès it was fortified again and taken by Napoleonic troops, who remained there until 1814.