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.
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.
The Catalan government will spend €16.2 million on the first phase of a new rail freight station in Vilamalla. The project is part of a wider plan to move more of Catalonia's goods off the roads and onto trains.
The announcement came in a busy week for rail freight in the Alt Empordà. Days earlier, a Figueres-based advisory body called for faster progress on two major rail projects in the county.
Four new freight stations by 2031
Sílvia Paneque, the Catalan minister for Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition, presented the plan after Tuesday's meeting of the Executive Council, the weekly cabinet meeting of the Generalitat (the Catalan government).
Owners of tractors and mopeds in Castelló d'Empúries will be able to have their vehicles inspected without leaving the municipality next week.
The mobile unit of the ITV, the Inspecció Tècnica de Vehicles, will visit the town on Wednesday, 30 September 2026. It will carry out inspections from 8am to 12 noon.
The ITV is Spain's compulsory roadworthiness test, similar to the MOT in the United Kingdom or the TÜV check in Germany. Vehicles must pass it regularly to remain legally on the road. Normally, owners have to take their vehicles to a fixed inspection station. The mobile unit saves them that trip.
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