Village
Calonge is a medieval town in the interior of the Baix Empordà, in Girona, dominated by its castle, whose towers and walls date from the 13th century, although the fortress began to be built in the 8th century to watch for Saracen raids. Today it is half palace, half fortress, belongs to the Generalitat and can be visited. The municipality has been inhabited since prehistoric times and preserves remains of the Iberian settlement of Castell Barri and of a Roman villa with a foundry from the 2nd to 4th centuries. In the mid-18th century the parish church of Sant Martí was built, one of the largest churches in the diocese of Girona, and at the end of the century it became industrialised with cork-stopper factories. The vineyards of the DO Empordà surround the old quarter, and on the coast lies Sant Antoni de Calonge.
Village
Sant Antoni de Calonge is the coastal hub of the municipality of Calonge i Sant Antoni, in the Baix Empordà, situated south of the bay of Palamós and bordering Platja d'Aro. It has about 3,400 inhabitants, a figure that multiplies in summer with the arrival of tourists. It was an independent municipality during the Civil War, when the Generalitat renamed it Sant Antoni de Mar, until in 1939 the Francoist town council of Calonge annexed it again. Its municipal area contains the archaeological site of the Roman villa of Collet, next to the hermitage of Santa Maria del Collet. It has a long seafront promenade and a sandy beach, and was the home of the American writer and journalist Robert Ruark, who asked to be buried nearby, in the cemetery of Palamós.
Monument
Castle located in the old town of Calonge, on the square that bears its name, the construction of which began in the 8th century by order of the counts of Girona to watch for Saracen raids, which made it one of the largest fortresses in the Baix Empordà. The 13th century was its time of greatest splendour, when the king granted the town the right to hold a weekly market. Today the building is half palace and half fortress, belongs to the Generalitat de Catalunya, is open to the public and hosts exhibitions and cultural events.
Monument
Archaeological site located on the summit of the mountain of the same name, on the Muntanya de Mas Mont, in the municipality of Calonge i Sant Antoni (Baix Empordà), protected as an asset of national cultural interest since 1949. It brings together two distinct complexes: the remains of an Iberian settlement inhabited from the 7th century BC to 218 BC, discovered by Lluís Barceló i Bou in 1930, and the ruins of a medieval watchtower, first mentioned in 1058 as property of the monastery of Sant Feliu de Guíxols. The tower, at 273.48 metres altitude, is a rectangular building 10 by 7.15 metres with walls up to 1.90 metres thick, made of ashlar and lime mortar, which communicated with the neighbouring tower of la Creu del Castellar to watch over the Ruàs and Molins valleys.
Monument
The Torre Valentina is an old coastal defence tower, listed as an asset of national cultural interest, located next to the seafront promenade of Sant Antoni de Calonge, south of its beach. It was built at the end of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th to watch for pirate attacks, forming together with the vanished Torre Pareres the first line of defence of the bay, completed inland by a network of towers that included those of Bedós, Castellbarri, Lloreta, la Creu del Castellar, el Mal Ús and Roura. Cylindrical in plan and without a door or interior staircase, which was formerly reached by an outer stairway, it is well preserved and is crowned by the stones that once supported its battlements. In the 1960s it became part of the residential development that today bears its name.
Nature
Sant Antoni de Calonge beach runs along the entire seafront of Sant Antoni de Calonge, between Torre Valentina and Santa Maria del Mar, in a coastal area with a tourist and holiday vocation within the municipality of Calonge i Sant Antoni. The Sant Antoni seafront promenade runs the length of the beach.
Nature
Cala del Cap Roig is a small beach in the municipality of Calonge i Sant Antoni, on the boundary between Calonge and Palafrugell, located east of Sant Jordi beach, from which it is separated by the distinctive Cap Roig crag. At barely 49 metres long and 13 metres wide on average, it has medium to coarse sand and a rocky seabed; the Cap Roig islet, a reddish rocky formation covered with pines, gives it its name and character. At the northern end of the beach there is a hut with a small jetty for boats, the point where the coastal path running along the coast resumes its course towards Calonge.
Monument
The church of Sant Martí de Calonge, in Calonge i Sant Antoni (Baix Empordà), has its present façade dated to 1767 as recorded on the main portal, facing east, with an elegant doorway protected by a wooden screen. The bell tower, of square plan and three storeys, located on the south side, preserves much of its original Romanesque structure, with old ashlars and the fragment of a round-arched window, reused when the church was rebuilt. Inside, a single very wide nave with eight side chapels leads to a polygonal head covered with a round-arched vault. The church suffered damage in 1936 and its roofs were restored in August 1992.
Monument
Santa Maria del Collet, also known as Santa Maria del Mar, is a hermitage located on a hill in the plain of Calonge, the remains of a small monastery of Benedictine nuns whose origins go back to the 12th century and which was built over an old Roman villa, the vil·la romana del Collet. Protected as a bien cultural de interés local (a heritage-protection designation at the municipal level), the religious community that inhabited it for centuries lived exposed to calamities such as piracy, plagues and poor harvests, to the point of being reduced at one time to a single nun. With the abandonment of the building, the use of the land passed to third parties and the old farmhouse became a residential mas. The town council of Calonge plans to restore it as an interpretation centre for the Roman ruins of Collet.