Six town councils in the Alt Empordà, including Castelló d'Empúries, have come out against the Catalan government's new rules on tourist flats. They join a wider group of coastal municipalities in the province of Girona that are calling for the regulation to be reviewed.
The Alt Empordà councils are Castelló d'Empúries, el Port de la Selva, Llançà, l'Escala, Roses and Sant Pere Pescador. Elsewhere on the Costa Brava, Begur, Calonge i Sant Antoni, Castell d'Aro, Platja d'Aro i S'Agaró and Pals have taken the same position. In total, around ten councils in the Girona area have now signed a manifesto against the decree. Several have also passed formal motions in their municipal plenary sessions.
The Biblioteca Ramon Bordas i Estragués, the public library in Castelló d'Empúries, is restarting its reading clubs this autumn after the summer break. The new season covers comics, fiction, theatre and young readers, with visits from several authors and two theatre trips to Barcelona.
Each club is run by a dedicated facilitator. The programme is built around shared reading and group discussion.
Comics club opens the season
The comics reading club is the first to return. It has been running for more than twelve years and meets once a quarter.
Its first session is on 8 October and will look at Los combates cotidianos by French cartoonist Manu Larcenet. Ovídia Barneo, who has led the club since it began, will continue to run the meetings.
Castelló d'Empúries will host an escape room on Saturday 3 October that brings grandparents, children and families together to solve puzzles as a team. The activity, called Els exploradors de l'edat perduda (The Explorers of the Lost Age), also aims to challenge stereotypes about age.
The game is organised by the Fundació Privada Hospital de Santa Llúcia de Castelló d'Empúries, a private foundation linked to the town's historic Santa Llúcia hospital. It is run with the support of Castelló d'Empúries town council, the Ajuntament, and the Fundació "la Caixa", the charitable foundation connected to the Catalan banking group.
The GALP Costa Brava, the local action group that supports fishing communities along the coast, has celebrated its tenth anniversary. The organisation has handed out more than €3.5 million in grants to local projects since it was founded in 2016.
The anniversary was marked with a commemorative event at the Espai Medes. It brought together institutional representatives, local stakeholders, maritime and fishing professionals, and entrepreneurs with links to the Costa Brava.
Organisers used the occasion to review a decade of work. They also looked ahead to the projects, people and opportunities expected to shape the coming years.
The cheese fair in Lladó has reached its third decade. On Sunday, the village's Plaça Major and the streets of its old centre once again filled with stalls, drawing visitors with an interest in artisan cheese.
Lladó is a small inland municipality in the Alt Empordà, the county that also includes Empuriabrava and Castelló d'Empúries. Its cheese fair has now been running for three decades.
25 cheesemakers from across Catalonia
This year's edition brought together 25 artisan cheesemakers from different parts of Catalonia. Between them they offered cheeses made from four types of milk: cow, goat, sheep and buffalo.
Buffalo milk is the least familiar of the four for many visitors. It sat on the stalls alongside the more traditional cow, goat and sheep varieties.
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