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Crit Cove

Mont-ras, Baix Empordà, Girona

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Crit Cove

Nature · Mont-ras, Baix Empordà, Girona

Cala del Crit, on the coast of Mont-ras, is a small beach of coarse sand and gravel, 71 metres long and 15 metres wide, separated from cala de la Font Morisca by a bored-through rock; it is reached on foot along the camí de ronda coastal path, without services, and nudism is practised there. It is protected, together with other nearby coves, by the Muntanyes de Begur Plan for Natural Interest Areas. A local legend tells that a ship of Moorish pirates moored there at night and, at dawn, drawn by the crowing of a cock, attacked a nearby farmhouse; the owner's daughter, on being seized, screamed and bit the captain, who beheaded her with his scimitar; from those screams the cove took its name. In 1981 a residents' movement got the Generalitat to reject, in 1983, a marina project in the cove.

Photo: Isidro Jabato (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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