Village
Corçà is an agricultural town in the interior of the Baix Empordà, set on the Empordà plain by the Rissec stream, with 1,283 inhabitants and the attached hamlets of Casavells, Cassà de Pelràs and Matajudaica. The village's name is already documented in the year 878, in a charter of the Frankish king Louis the Stammerer, as a possession of the bishop of Girona believed to have been inherited from a Roman villa at the foot of Puig-Rodó. Two kilometres from the hamlet stands the Romanesque chapel of Santa Cristina, from the 13th century, whose altarpiece was moved in 1904 to the parish church of Corçà and is now kept in the Museu d'Art de Girona. Only remains survive of the village's old castle, and Corçà today also hosts a market of organic produce.
Monument
Remains of a 14th-15th-century castle on Plaça del Rebot in Corçà, in the Baix Empordà. It is listed as a bien cultural d'interès nacional (a cultural property of national interest), with the code BCIN 703-MH. Of the old fortification a stretch of wall survives, visible from Carrer del Mur.
Monument
A 15th-century defensive tower beside the C-66 road where it passes through Corçà.
Activity
A market of organic and local producers, travelling between different municipalities of the comarca.
Activity
A market of second-hand goods, antiques and collectables in Corçà.
Monument
A church in the hamlet of Cassà de Pelràs, in the municipality of Corçà (Baix Empordà), documented in 1209 as Sancti Martini de Caciano de Piloraso, when Arnau de Llers restored to the bishop of Girona nine churches of his domains that he had usurped, among them this one; from the 13th century it is also recorded as a parish church. It is a 12th-century Romanesque church, with a single nave with a semicircular apse, pointed vault and a pointed triumphal arch as well; the head preserves a splayed window, and the original portal, a round arch on the south wall, was walled up. Reforms after the Middle Ages added the Baroque façade with portal and rose window, the bell tower, the side chapels, the sacristy and the loft above the perimeter walls of the medieval building.
Monument
A small Romanesque church located in the hamlet of Casavells, in the municipality of Corçà, within the notable ensemble of rural Romanesque architecture of the Baix Empordà. First mentioned in 1071, in 1182 it was placed under the Augustinian canonry of Santa Maria d'Ullà, on which several parishes of the comarca depended. It has a single nave with a semicircular apse and pointed vault, with remains of the original round-arched portal, while the present Baroque portal bears the year 1722 engraved on it. On the north side stands a small square-plan tower belfry, with a storey of twin windows with small arches, colonnettes and capitals, whose origin could date back to the 10th or 11th centuries.
Monument
Church of the Matajudaica hamlet, in the municipality of Corçà, with a single nave, an abside that is semicircular outside and polygonal inside, side chapels and lunette vaults. On the western facade a rectangular portal with decorative balls opens, along with a niche now without an image -above which the year 1797 is engraved- and an oculus, all topped by a bell-gable; on the southwest corner stands a small tower, a former comunidor now very ruined. The loss of the render has exposed, on the outside of the abside, the original Romanesque masonry. It has been documented since 1182, when it appears as a possession of the monastery of Santa Maria d'Ullà; in 13th- and 14th-century documents the place name Matajudaica points to a Jewish origin or community there.
Monument
Parish church of the Firal hamlet, in Corçà, documented since the year 1065 as Sancti Iuliani de Quarciano; the place was already inhabited in Roman times, and on the nearby Puig Rodó the remains of a villa with mosaics are known, found since the late 19th century. Of the 12th-century Romanesque temple only fragments of the facade remain, with a portal of two degrading round arches and a small rose window, and of the semicircular abside, integrated into the 17th- and 18th-century reconstruction: a polygonal head with side chapels, lunette vaults, a square tower bell tower and a sacristy from 1735. In 1817 three assailants martyred the rector, Father Batlle, who before dying identified his attackers; a plaque at the entrance recalls the episode today.
Monument
Hermitage of medieval origin located about five hundred metres south of the village of Corçà, protected as a local cultural asset. It consists of a single nave and an abside of semicircular plan tending toward a horseshoe shape, whose base dates back to the 11th century, while the rest of the building -with well-worked ashlars- belongs to the 12th or 13th centuries, although it was rebuilt at least once already in the 14th. The roof is a slightly pointed barrel vault. The first document citing the chapel is from 1235, when Maria de Cruïlles made a bequest to it in her will; in 1364 the bishop of Girona authorised the purchase of a bell and the rebuilding of the temple. The presence of tegulae and amphora fragments in the neighbouring fields suggests it was built on an earlier place of worship, perhaps Roman.