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What to see and do in Vall-llobrega

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

1 Villages · 1 Monuments

How far each place is from the centre of Vall-llobrega

Sant Mateu de Vall-llobrega 1.6 km

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What to see and do in Vall-llobrega

Vall-llobrega
Village
Vall-llobrega is a small municipality in the Baix Empordà, with 891 inhabitants, located between Palafrugell and Calonge and a starting point for hiking routes towards the Gavarres massif. It lives on dry farming, livestock and tourism linked to campsites and residential developments. It preserves a dolmen, that of Montagut, a thousand-year-old olive tree and the old Romanesque church of San Mateo, today without a roof but with intact walls, whose sudden collapse, according to legend, was averted thanks to the warning bleats of a wild goat; the animal has featured on the municipality's coat of arms ever since. Beside the Vall-llobrega stream also stands the Pont de la Creu.
Sant Mateu de Vall-llobrega
Monument
Sant Mateu Vell de Vall-llobrega is a Romanesque church situated at the head of the valley of the Vall-llobrega stream, in the Gavarres (Baix Empordà). Probably built in the 11th century, it is mentioned from 1280 and appears as a parish church from the 14th century. Set on a steep slope over highly plastic clays, it suffered stability problems and risk of collapse, until in 1669 approval was given to move the parish to a new church in the Raval de baix, leaving the old one abandoned. When its restoration began in 2011, completed in 2018, the building was in ruins and without a roof; the intervention repaired the walls and raised a roof of Arab tiles over wooden trusses. It is a temple with a single nave with a semicircular apse and a door with a double round arch.