Free tour of the Girona Walls
Tour description
With this tour we are going to help you discover an area of the city of Girona that no one else has visited Free tours in Girona: The upper part of the city and its walls!
We begin this fantastic walk from Plaça Sant Feliu, our starting point at the indicated time.
First, we will enter the old town to visit the monastery of San Pedro de Galligans , an ancient Benedictine abbey that is a jewel of Catalan Romanesque architecture . We will cross the Galligans River to discover the Arab Baths , the prelude to the Archaeological Walk , where we will find beautiful terraced gardens that extend over the Carolingian wall .
We will continue to the Gironella Tower , where we will access the upper part of the murals. Once again, we will travel for a while and enjoy privileged views of the city .
To continue we will look at the mural and we will look at the German Barracks and the French Gardens , where the Charlemagne Tower is located, the only one that stood at the foot of the Girona Cathedral when it was Romanesque.
In addition, the free tour will take us to the convent of Sant Domenec and the Las Águilas building , which was the first headquarters of the University of Girona . To finish, we will go down the Pujada de Sant Domenec to reach the Plaça de l'Oli and the Rambla de la Llibertat , the heart of the old city where we will end our tour.