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What to see and do in Salt

What to see and do in Salt (Gironès, Girona): 7 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Nature · 2 Activities · 1 Historical milestones

When to go to Salt: festival calendar

July: Salt Main Festival (late July)
October: Salt International Basket Fair (first weekend of October)

How far each place is from the centre of Salt

Museum of l'Aigua - Fàbrica Coma Cros 700 m
House of the Marquis of Camps 1 km

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What to see and do in Salt

Salt
Village
Salt is a municipality in the province of Gerona, in the Gironès comarca, conurbated with the city of Gerona on the banks of the Ter river, which crosses it from west to east and is the most defining element of its landscape. With 34,491 inhabitants (INE 2025) it is the second most populous municipality in the Gerona urban area, despite being one of the smallest municipal terms in the province, at only 6.47 km². Its name may derive from the expression Sale alte, documented in 1019, or from the word salto, a type of land tenure already known in Roman times. Next to the river, the Monar irrigation channel waters the area between both watercourses. Its identity is linked to the textile industry of the 19th and 20th centuries, today converted into cultural spaces such as the Coma Cros factory.
House of the Marquis of Camps
Monument
Casa del Marquès de Camps, known as Cal Marquès, stands in Salt (Gironès) next to the old Mas Ribot farmhouse, property of the Ribot family from at least 1472, which passed, through successive marriages, to the Llorens, the Font and finally the Camps families. Pelagi de Camps i de Matas, Girona's leading taxpayer in the late 19th century, was made Marquis of Camps by Pope Pius IX in 1878 and commissioned the renovation from architect Francesc d'Assís Garcia i Corrons, the author of this house in neo-medieval historicist style. The complex, with a rectangular body and inner courtyard, has a square tower and an attached chapel, with rendered rubble-masonry façades, wrought-iron balconies and neo-Gothic windows in the tower. It is declared bien cultural de interés nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection).
Museum of l'Aigua - Fàbrica Coma Cros
Monument
A museum devoted to water culture and the textile industry, housed since 2011 in the former Coma Cros factory (in operation between 1850 and 1995), now converted into the Factoria Cultural of the same name.
Park of les Deveses de Salt
Nature
A natural river area beside the Ter with waymarked trails where wildlife such as otters, Spanish pond turtles and ospreys can be observed. Its protection has allowed the conservation of an environment of great natural interest despite being next to an urban centre of more than a hundred thousand inhabitants. It is also home to badgers, hedgehogs, shrews, weasels and wildcats, birds such as cormorants, herons and greylag geese, reptiles such as wall lizards and water snakes, and amphibians such as toads, frogs and newts. Its waters are home to barbel, catfish and carp, and the riverside vegetation brings together willows, alders, maples and poplars along with water lilies and reed beds; storks and otters have been reintroduced in the park.
Salt International Basket Fair
Activity
A fair bringing together basket makers from the Catalan-speaking lands and from various European countries in the old town of Salt, with demonstrations of the traditional craft of basketry.
Salt Main Festival
Activity
The Festa Major of the municipality of Salt, with a programme of popular and cultural events over several days in July.
The industrialisation of Salt
Historical milestone
The first factory was set up in 1846 beside the Monar canal and in 1850 came the spinning mill that Joan de Coma i Cros would end up buying; in 1920 he concentrated all his production there and the village went from three hundred to more than two thousand five hundred inhabitants.