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.
A shuttle minibus linking the centre of Figueres with the Castell de Sant Ferran carried 907 passengers in its first month. Figueres City Council says the result shows the pilot scheme was well received.
The shuttle was one of several measures the council introduced this summer to promote tourism in the capital of the Alt Empordà. The others were a combined ticket for four cultural sites, a joint day-and-night Dalí offer, and permanent promotional displays in the town centre.
A cheap ride up the hill
The minibus ran from 20 July to 23 August. It linked the Rambla and the Teatre-Museu Dalí with the Castell de Sant Ferran, the fortress above the town, in both directions.
The Mostra del Vi de l'Empordà, the Empordà wine fair in Figueres, will feature 11 wineries this year, three more than in 2025. It is the fair's 40th edition. For the first time it will share a single space with the Fòrum Gastronòmic Ciutat, the town's food forum, on the Rambla from 2 to 4 October.
All participating wineries belong to the DO Empordà, the denominació d'origen (protected designation of origin) that certifies wines from the area. The list is Celler Cooperatiu d'Espolla, La Vinyeta (Mollet de Peralada), Mas Llunes and Masetplana (Garriguella), Espelt Viticultors (Vilajuïga), Pere Guardiola (Capmany), AV Bodeguers (Vilamaniscle), Terra Remota (Sant Climent Sescebes), Empordàlia (Vilajuïga/Pau), Vinyes dels Aspres (Cantallops) and Mas Vida (Cistella).
Figueres has started fitting number plate recognition cameras at the main roads into the town. The first 30 cameras will cover 14 points and are expected to start operating in November.
The local council (Ajuntament) began installing the equipment this week. The project costs €400,670.80. Its stated aims are to monitor traffic and improve public safety.
The cameras will not go live until the council finishes expanding the data and image processing centre at the headquarters of the Guàrdia Urbana, the town's municipal police force. That control room is where footage and alerts will be viewed and managed.
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