Girona in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Girona covers 13 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Girona rewards a detour.

The Girona route at a glance

Day 1

Day 1 covers 7 stops over about 1 km as the crow flies, from Parc de la Devesa to The Call (Jewish Quarter). ≈ 1 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Parc de la Devesa: Catalonia's largest urban park, a cool green refuge of long avenues lined with soaring plane trees, some over fifty metres tall. Planted around 1850, they make a cathedral of leaves beside the city's rivers. 0.6 km to the next stop
2. Cases de l'Onyar: The rainbow row of houses stacked along the Onyar river, their facades painted in nearly thirty colours in 1982 and reflected in the water below the cathedral and Sant Feliu towers: the postcard image of Girona. 0.1 km to the next stop
3. Rambla de la Llibertat: The arcaded main promenade of the old town, running along the river beneath Gothic vaults and leafy trees. For centuries a market square, it is Girona's social heart, lined with cafes and Saturday flower stalls. 0.1 km to the next stop
4. Pont de les Peixateries Velles: The red iron footbridge over the Onyar, built in 1877 by Gustave Eiffel's company, a dozen years before his Paris tower. From its lattice deck comes the classic framed view of the coloured riverside houses. 0.1 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Plaça de la Independència: The grand arcaded square across the river, ringed by uniform neoclassical facades and lively cafe terraces. At its centre stands a bronze monument to the defenders of Girona in the great sieges against Napoleon. 0.1 km to the next stop
2. Casa Masó: The white house among the coloured ones, birthplace of the architect Rafael Masó and the only one of the Onyar houses open to visitors: a jewel of Catalan Noucentisme, full of tiles and stained glass. 0 km to the next stop
3. The Call (Jewish Quarter): One of the best-preserved medieval Jewish quarters in Europe, a steep maze of stone lanes around Carrer de la Força. Home of the great scholar Nahmanides, it is now also the Museum of Jewish History.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 6 stops over about 26 km as the crow flies, from Passeig de la Muralla to Besalú. ≈ 26 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Passeig de la Muralla: A walk along the top of Girona's ancient ramparts, Roman and Carolingian in their roots, climbing past towers and hillside gardens to the city's highest points, with sweeping views over the old town and the hills. 0.2 km to the next stop
2. Girona Cathedral: The great Gothic cathedral crowning the old town, reached by a grand Baroque staircase of ninety steps. Its single nave is the widest Gothic nave in the world, and its facade starred in Game of Thrones. 0.1 km to the next stop
3. Basílica de Sant Feliu: Girona's second great church, its tall Gothic spire, cut short by lightning, a landmark across the old town. Inside are ancient Roman sarcophagi set in the walls and a serene alabaster carving of the recumbent Christ. 0.1 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Banys Àrabs (Arab Baths): Despite the name, these elegant bathhouses are Christian-built Romanesque work of the 12th century. A ring of slender columns circles a cool pool beneath a lantern dome, with warm and hot rooms heated from below. 0.1 km to the next stop
2. Sant Pere de Galligants: A superb 12th-century Romanesque Benedictine monastery, with an octagonal bell tower, a carved rose window and a serene columned cloister. It now houses Catalonia's archaeology museum for the Girona region. 26 km to the next stop
3. Besalú: A spellbinding medieval town near Girona, entered across a long fortified stone bridge over the river. Once the seat of its own county, it keeps Romanesque churches and a rare medieval Jewish ritual bath.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Updated: October 13, 2026

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