What to see in Girona on foot

Girona
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Girona's old town stacks up the Roman city of Gerunda, the Jewish quarter of the Middle Ages and the middle-class city of the 19th century. It is ringed by walls combining Roman stone, Carolingian reinforcements and a Gothic circuit, with the River Onyar flowing below.

What to see

Cases de l'Onyar

19th-century houses overlooking the River Onyar. Their coloured façades are not medieval: they were painted in 1982 as part of a design campaign.

Catedral de Santa Maria de Girona

A cathedral of Romanesque origin, from the 11th-12th centuries, with Gothic and later work up to the 18th. Its nave is 22.98 metres wide, the widest in Gothic architecture anywhere in the world.

Banys Àrabs de Girona

Despite the name, these are Christian, Romanesque baths from the 13th century. A siege destroyed them and they were rebuilt by royal order; their lantern tower has no parallel anywhere on the Iberian Peninsula.

Barri Vell de Girona

The old town packs three eras into some four hundred metres of street: the Gerunda of the Romans, the medieval Jewish quarter and the 19th-century bourgeoisie.

Basílica de Sant Feliu

A basilica known by its bell tower, left truncated by a lightning strike in 1581. It is linked to the legend of a swarm of flies that delivered Girona from a siege.

Monestir de Sant Pere de Galligants

A Benedictine monastery founded in 992, with 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Its cloister stood in for the Citadel of Oldtown in Game of Thrones.

Muralles de Girona

Walls that combine Roman stone, Carolingian reinforcements and a 14th-century Gothic circuit. Today they form the city's longest raised walkway, and the cathedral can be seen from the Torre de Sant Domènec.

Pont de les Peixateries Velles

A late-19th-century iron bridge that locals call Palanques Vermelles. It came out of Gustave Eiffel's workshop twelve years before he put up his tower in Paris.

El Cul de la Lleona

A stone lioness with a popular tradition attached: whoever kisses its backside becomes a gironí, a Girona local, and is said to always end up coming back.

Casa Agullana

A Baroque palace, with work from the 14th to 17th centuries, that spans the Pujada de Sant Domènec with an arch. A family legend featuring a bat is still told about it.

Convent de Sant Domènec

A Gothic and Baroque convent founded in 1253, the fifth Dominican house in Catalonia. Its great single nave was the model for the cathedral's; today it is home to the Faculty of Arts.

Torre Gironella

A medieval tower at the highest point of the wall. In every siege of Girona it was the last bastion to be defended, and in 1391 it sheltered the Jewish community.

How much time you need

Citourfy has 6 walking tours in Girona, 23 min to 30 min each: each area can be done on its own, on different days or on the same one.

Getting to the starting point

When to go: festivals

Local festivals, in case you want your visit to coincide with one:

Girona audio guide

The app narrates each place as soon as you arrive, using your phone's GPS:

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Sources

The facts in this guide come from the same records as the audio guide and from these public inventories:

Facts checked on October 22, 2026.