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What to see and do in Rupià

What to see and do in Rupià (Baix Empordà, Girona): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

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What to see and do in Rupià

Rupià
Village
Rupià is a walled town in the comarca of Baix Empordà, in the province of Girona, northwest of the comarca's capital, on a volcanic area, and includes the hamlets of Sobrevila and la Talaia. It has about 325 inhabitants and lives on dry farming and cattle and pig raising. Documented since 1139 as Rupinianum, it was for centuries under the dominion of the bishop of Girona, who in 1268 bought the castles of Rupià and Fonolleres, a legacy preserved in its own castle, in civil Gothic style. The town was walled at the end of the 15th century, and stretches of wall remain along with the two historic gateways, the Portal d'Amunt and the Portal d'Avall. It also preserves the church of San Vicente and the Mas Llorà olive tree, 6 metres in circumference, the largest in the Mediterranean.
Castle and Walls of Rupià
Monument
A Catalan Gothic civil castle of the 14th-15th centuries, built of ashlar stone with a rectangular plan, together with remains of the walls that protected the centre of Rupià, in the Baix Empordà (Girona). Documented since 1128, when Guerau de Rupià is mentioned, it passed in 1268 into the hands of Bishop Pere de Castellnou, who bought the castles of Rupià and Fonolleres for 34,000 Barcelona sous. The noble floor retains a hall with diaphragm arches and Gothic windows, one of them trefoiled, as well as remains of a square corner tower. Today it is municipal property: it was repaired in the 1930s to house the town hall, and one can still see vaulted passages, stretches of wall and defensive structures integrated into the 17th-century farmhouse of Can Vilà.