Tossa de Mar from Girona city

Tossa is a true open-air museum. Its prehistoric vestiges give way to a Roman Turissa, a medieval Tursa and a modern Tossa, first converted into a refuge for artists and intellectuals and later a generous host for tourists and visitors.

Essential for our visit:

We will walk along a Wall with more than eight centuries of history

Declared a national historical-artistic monument in 1931, the walled enclosure of Vila Vella is the emblem of the municipality. Currently it is the only example of a fortified medieval town that still exists on the Catalan coast. Built at the beginning of the s. XIII to protect the population from pirate attacks, it preserves almost all of its original perimeter area, with crenellated walls.

We will discover the old routes for smuggling, the Caminos de Ronda

The Caminos de Ronda are paths along the seashore that run along the coast of the Costa Brava from Portbou to Blanes. Its name comes from the expression “to make the rounds”, given that these steep roads were used for coastal surveillance.  The proximity to France made this coastline a perfect place for blackmail, which led to these roads being used by the police to control smuggling, which was mainly tobacco.

If you are interested in Gastronomy, try “cim i tomba”, the most seafood dish in Tossa.

The seafaring roots of Tossa have left us the heritage of boat cuisine, which was prepared on board trawling and purse seine boats when fishermen had to spend many hours at sea. One of the boat dishes most closely linked to the fishermen of Tossa is cim i tomba, which after being prepared by generations of seamen, today we can find on the tables of the town's restaurants as a local specialty.

We will take a walk through the old fishing neighborhood, Sa Roqueta.

The traditional fishing neighborhood of Sa Roqueta, with humble houses and flowery corners, is the result of the expansion of the population outside the walls in the 19th century. XVI. Built next to the Es Codolar beach, the natural harbor where many of the fishermen had their boats, and next to a wall that formerly served as the back wall of some of their houses, it still preserves unique buildings.

Today a commercial area, full of small shops among its narrow streets and whitewashed houses typical of the Mediterranean.