Olot is granted city status Historical milestone · Olot, Garrotxa, Girona Image of Olot, not of the place itself. Alfonso XIII granted the town the status of city after a century of factory growth that had made it the most populous center of the Girona comarcas after Girona; in 1911 the railway would arrive. 1907 Photo: Wamito (Public domain) What to see and do in Olot