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.
The Mossos d'Esquadra, Catalonia's regional police force, arrested the owner of a travel agency in L'Escala on Wednesday. She is under investigation for fraud, and police believe the scheme is worth more than €2 million.
Officers say close to 400 people were affected. Some paid for holidays that never existed. Others learned partway through their trip that their stay had not been fully paid for and that they still owed money.
Jordi Casanovas is a deputy inspector and head of the central economic crime area of the Mossos' criminal investigation division. He said the woman had no civil liability insurance and used the money she took from customers to pay off debts.
Two men were injured, one of them critically, after a gas explosion at a rural hotel in Peralada in the early hours of the morning.
The blast happened at Can Carbó, a traditional Catalan farmhouse, or masia, that has been converted into visitor accommodation. The building has a ground floor and two upper storeys and lies within the municipality of Peralada, a few kilometres inland from Castelló d'Empúries.
Tank explosion and fire
Emergency services received the call at 2.18am. A gas tank outside the hotel exploded and the blast immediately started a fire.
The Bombers, Catalonia's fire and rescue service, sent nine ground units. On arrival, firefighters rescued two people. According to the Sistema d'Emergències Mèdiques (SEM), the regional emergency medical service, the first was a 47-year-old man in critical condition. He was taken to Vall d'Hebron hospital in Barcelona. The second, a 74-year-old man, had minor injuries and was taken to Hospital Josep Trueta in Girona.
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