FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Address & directions - How do I obtain your address and directions?

Airlines - What airlines fly to Girona?

Airports - Where are the nearest airports?

Barcelona - How far are you from Barcelona?

Bathroom - What are your bathroom facilities?

Bed linen - What bed linen do you provide?

Bedrooms - What bedrooms do you have?

Booking - How do I book?

Bus service - What bus services are available?

Capacity - What is the apartment's capacity?

Car - Is a car necessary?

Car parking - What car parking is available?

Car rental - What car hire firms can you recommend?

Central heating - Is the apartment centrally heated?

Check-out time - What is your check-out time on the day of departure?

Check-in time - What is your check-in time for arrivals?

Children - Are children welcome?

Circuit de Catalunya - How do you get to Circuit de Catalunya from Girona?

Costa Brava - What does the Costa Brava have to offer?

Cots - Do you have a cot?

Credit cards - Do you accept credit cards?

Currency - What currencies do you accept?

Dali - How close are you from the Dali museum?

Deposit - Do you require a deposit?

Discounts - What discounts do you offer?

E-mail - What is your e-mail address?

Figueres - How far is Figueres?

Flights - What airlines fly into Girona?

France - How close is the French border?

Games - Are games provided?

Gaudi - How close are Gaudi's works?

Gerona - What's the difference between "Gerona" and "Girona"?

Girona's Call (medieval Jewish quarter) - How was the Call rediscovered?

Girona cathedral - Is the cathedral worth a visit?

Girona's history - Can you give me a potted history of the town?

Girona's museums - What do the town's museums have to offer?

Golf - Is it a good area for golf?

Hiking - What is the area like for hiking?

Jazz clubs - Can you recommend any local jazz clubs?

Kitchen - What kitchen facilities are available?

Languages - What languages do you speak? And what is the local language?

Laundry - Are there any laundry facilities available?

Maps - Do you have some maps of the area?

Montmelo - How do you get to Circuit de Catalunya from Girona?

Opening period - Are you open all year?

Payment methods - What payment methods do you accept?

Pets - Do you allow pets?

Phone number - What is your phone number?

Picasso - Where are the nearest Picasso displays?

Prices - What is the cost of apartment rental?

Public transport - What public transport is available?

Pyrenees - How close are the Pyrenees mountains?

Rental period - What is your minimum rental period?

Restaurants - What local restaurants and tapa bars can you recommend?

Rooms - What rooms does the apartment have?

Shopping - Is Girona good for shopping?

Smoking - Is smoking allowed?

Swimming - Where can we swim?

Tapa bars - What tapa bars can you recommend?

Taxis - Is there a reliable taxi service?

Tennis - Are there any public tennis courts?

Time of arrival - What is your check-in time for arrivals?

Time of year - When are you open?

Towels - Are towels provided?

Trains - What is the train service like?

Vegetarian restaurants - Are there local vegetarian restaurants?

Walking - What is the area like for walking?

Wheel chair access - Does the apartment have wheel chair access?

Girona cathedral - Is the cathedral worth a visit?

Definitely! Forming a dramatic centrepiece of the old city, the cathedral is a mighty Gothic structure built on the hillside and approached by a magnificent flight of seventeenth-century Baroque steps. Local legend has it that if a single person sits in Charlemagne's Chair, at the back of the nave, they will remain single; if a couple sit their they will get married. This area has been a place of worship since Roman times, and a Moorish mosque stood on the site before the foundation of the cathedral in 1038. Much of the present building dates from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but a few earlier parts can still be seen – including the eleventh-century north tower and the Romanesque cloisters with their exquisite sculpted capitals.

The main facade, remodelled in the eighteenth century, bursts with exuberant decoration: faces, bodies, coats of arms, and with saints Peter and Paul flanking the door. Inside, the cathedral is awesome – there are no aisles, just one tremendous single-naved Gothic vault with a span of 22m, the largest Gothic nave in the world. This emphasis on width and height is a feature of Catalan-Gothic with its "hall churches", of which, unsurprisingly, Girona's is the ultimate example. Contemporary sceptics declared the vault to be unsafe, and building only went ahead after an appeal by its designer, Guillermo Bofill, to a panel of architects.

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Photo - The church of Sant Feliu and Girona Cathedral overlooking the River Onyar

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