VISITA LLAGOSTERA

Here is a collection of some of the legends and lore of Llagostera. Set in the old quarter, the stories allow us to share part of our town’s historical and cultural heritage and to appreciate our rich tradition.

We invite you to share a good walk around spots enclosed by walls, landmark buildings and streets rich with a special atmosphere.

You will not walk alone, though. If you follow the route marked on the map, you will find the places where the stories in this booklet took place and discover the secrets of the town and its inhabitants. Feliu and Seculina will guide you through time and space and relive these -sometimes true and sometimes fictitious- stories preserved by oral tradition until local authors wrote them down in the twentieth century.

Enjoy the walk and the stories!

The Museum Foundation Emili Vilà houses a valuable collection of works by Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, Degas, Goya, Picasso, Corot and Rousseau as well as works by the local painter Emili Vilà Gorgoll who settled in Paris in 1906 and became a successful painter of portraits and posters.

The painter Emili Vilà i Gorgoll (1887-1967) was the founder of this museum where most of his most important works are displayed. Emili Vilà was highly celebrated in France, where he spent most of his life. He is recognised as a portrait painter and poster designer. He is the author of the works Affiches du Clos du Postillon, Palmolive, Fayard, Renaud, Marie Brizard, as well as the posters Le Timbre Antituberculeux and La lutte contre le Cancer...

He painted portraits for Presidents of the French Republic, ministers and magistrates as well as artists such as Fernandel, Jean Gabin, Charlie Chaplin, and dancers from the United States...

His magnificent landscapes can be seen in the museum as well as his early and late works.
With the Museum Emili Vilà i Gorgoll, the town of Llagostera pays a tribute to one of its sons.    
Visit by appointment.

http://www.museuvila.com

Parc de la Torre

The park is located between the streets of Canalejas, Barcelona and Constància. It takes its name from the Albertí Country House, which stands by the park and has a defence tower and a chapel. The park has a wide green area of trees and bushes and a children’s playground. It is the site of many open-air balls and summer festivals.

Parc de l’Estació

Located on Passeig Romeu, the park has a wide green area as well as a playground and basketball court. The following municipal facilities can be found in the park:

-       Tourist Office l’Estació

-       Primary Health Care Centre (CAP)

-       Office of Municipal Shelter “La Farinera”

Wi-Fi service is also available throughout the park. It allows for two hours of free Internet use.  

The Green Route of the Narrow-Gauge Railway crosses the park and is one of the most visited parts of the route. It is a good starting point and/or point of arrival.

Llagostera is very close to the main touristic attractions of Girona and Costa Brava while at the same time enjoys a privileged location in a quiet and comfortable area away from the first line of beach and close to the mountain. It is well connected and allows reaching the best touristic areas in a short time.

Tossa de Mar: 20 km | Girona: 20 km | Platja d’Aro: 17 Km | Sant Feliu de Guíxols: 15 Km | Calonge: 23 Km | Figueres: 63 Km

Llagostera has nearly one hundred shops, most of them members of the Shopkeepers Association of Llagostera, where all kinds of articles can be found.

Link to www.fempoble.cat

Every Thursday from 8:00 to 14:00 the weekly market of Llagostera settles on Av de l'Esport. There are stands of fruits, vegetables, clothing, olives, and sausages.

May - June

The Festa Major de Llagostera is the celebration in honour of the patron saint and the town’s major festivity. It is celebrated seven weeks after Easter, on Whitsun. During five days Llagostera enjoys its leisure time and shows off the town, casting an identitarian signal as well as one of tradition and modernity. The activities of the Festa Major include Sardanes (the traditional Catalan dance), balls, concerts, theatre, correfoc (a run in the streets under fireworks), tents of the village’s entities, carts race, sausage competition, and hot chocolate for children.

Llagostera has an important architectural heritage part of which, as it is the case of the Wall, has been listed as Item of Cultural Interest. A walk through the old quarter of Llagostera allows visiting a number of buildings of historical interest. The Wall Route includes, among others, the parish Church of Sant Feliu (seventeenth century), the Castle (fourteenth - fifteenth century) and the viewpoint of the Plaça del Castell, from which there’s a panoramic view of Les Gavarres and the pre-Pyrenees. Along the streets of the centre of Llagostera there are many Modernist and Noucentist style buildings, as well as others built during the economic boom derived from the cork industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which are also part of the Architectural Route.

Town Council, Castle and Wall. The origins date back to the twelfth century but the rests that can be seen today belong to a powerful fortified complex from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries from which there remain three towers. The current Town Council has preserved the fifteenth century vaults in its Plenary Hall.

Sant Feliu Parish Church.
 There are references to the church from the year 855, although the current building dates from the seventeenth century. It has a rectangular nave and a polygonal apse. Noteworthy is the gateway of Catalan Gothic style. The niche contains a reproduction of an image of Saint Felix that replaces the original, which was lost during the Civil War.

Casino Llagosterenc. 
EIt was built in Noucentist style in the mid-nineteenth century, at a time when there was an important associative movement linked to the cork industry. The original building (1891-1903) was replaced by the present one in 1936.

The Albertí Tower 
It is an example of the Masies or country houses of the sixteenth century. This Masia displays a defensive watchtower and a chapel from 1588.

Ca les Vídues
 (Widows’ House).
 House built in the sixteenth century. It was home to the widows of a prominent family who lived there in order to be near the church. In 1957 it was donated to the Town Council.

Can Coris 
És un clar exemple de com era la residència d‘un empresari del suro. Correspon a l‘època més esplendorosa de la indústria (de finals del s. XIX i principis del XX).

L‘Agrícola Modernist house built in 1903 to host entities and associations. It was the site of the Centre Regionalista and the Agricultural Chamber