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

A lot! The Museu d'Art is housed on the southeastern side of the cathedral in the restored Episcopal Palace. The early rooms deal with Romanesque art, including some impressive Majestats (wooden images of Christ wrapped in a tunic) taken from the province's churches. Among the manuscripts on display are an eleventh-century copy of Bede's works and an amazing martyrology from the monastery of Poblet. The collection then progresses chronologically as you climb the floors, passing a room of bright fifteenth-century retables (their intricate scenes almost 3D in effect), some splendid Renaixement works – such as a lovely set of sixteenth-century liturgical items – and nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catalan art on the top two floors.

Again within the cathedral complex, the Chapter museum houses the famous 11C tapestry depicting the Creation. Within ten minutes' walk from the cathedral are the Arab baths, Monestir de Sant Pere de Galligants - now site of the Museu Arqueològic, and the Promenade along the Medieval ramparts.

Housed in an eighteenth-century convent, the fascinating Museu d'Història de la Ciutat on Carrer la Força contains the preserved bodies of past inhabitants. As well as providing insights into how Girona developed as a city, which is explained through text, exhibits and photos, there is also a hotch potch of more modern inventions, including old radios from the 1930s, a 1925 Olivetti typewriter, a printing press, cameras, machine tools, engines and a dozen other mechanical and electrical delights.

Of more modern vintage, there is a delightful Cinema Museum just across the river from the old town on Carrer Sèquia.

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

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