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.
Thirteen museums and thirteen wineries across the province of Girona will team up this October for the fifth edition of "Beu-te el museu", a programme that pairs cultural visits with tastings of DO Empordà wine.
The name is a Catalan play on words, roughly "Drink up the museum". The activities will take place on weekends throughout October. Several museums and one winery are taking part for the first time.
Tickets and prices
A total of 380 places are available, and the price stays at €22 per person, the same as last year. Each activity is limited to between 20 and 30 people.
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.
Castelló d'Empúries town council has replaced eight panels and plaques on Empuriabrava's heritage trail. Most of the signs had faded in the sun, and some had been vandalised.
The work was carried out in recent days by the council's Historic Heritage Department. The signs mark some of the most notable buildings, sculptures and sites in the residential marina.
A trail born from an anniversary
The heritage signage was designed and installed in 2017 and 2018, when Empuriabrava marked fifty years as a residential marina. Its purpose was twofold: to highlight the marina's most distinctive features and to give visitors a route through its historic, cultural and natural heritage.
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