Top 20 Caves in Girona

The Norfeu Tower is a historic watchtower built in the 16th century to defend against pirate attacks. It stands atop a rocky cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea and offers stunning views of the Roses coastline.

The Torre de Norfeu is a building in the municipality of Roses (Alt Empordà) protected as a cultural asset of local interest. Located within the small peninsula that forms the Cap de Norfeu, on top of the highest hill of all those that make up the orography of the area, with a great command over the sea. These are the remains of a watchtower located in these contours. Circular in plan, with a slightly sloping profile and a large diameter, the tower is built with stone of various sizes and some ashlars, without being worked, arranged in irregular rows and bound with lime mortar. It currently has an approximate height of about six meters and maintains the hemispherical vault that covered the ground floor. The interior walls still maintain remains of the hydraulic lime layer that coated them and the bottom was built with a fairly well-preserved tile pavement, since the floor was intended to be a rainwater collection cistern. In the center of the vault, the register through which the water was extracted and the first floor was reached is still preserved.[1] Currently, access to the interior of the tower is through a slightly raised chasm, which gives access to the space of the cistern. Large fragments of built walls and scattered rubble, from the demolition of the upper part, are scattered around the construction. Source: https://ca.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_de_Norfeu

In these Baumas and cavities, a certain number of protected cave-dwelling invertebrates and Bats live. It is advisable not to ENTER some of these Baumas and ensure that our passage through the area causes the least possible impact.🙋

These are two small caves separated by 6 meters. The largest has a slightly ascending gallery and is largely covered by clastic products. In the first few meters it has a width of about 5 meters which gradually decreases until the final section where it remains closed. A few meters from the mouth, on the left, there is a small side channel which soon becomes impenetrable. In total it has a route of 28 meters. The other cave is a short duct only 8 meters long and with a roof that descends until it becomes impenetrable.

It is an artificial cave 15 meters long built with a hammer and escarpment. Personally it is what I liked the most with all those drawings engraved on the stone. At the entrance to the cave there is a commemorative plaque where it says the following: En aquest lloc va començar tot. «Here are buried my fantasies and my illusions». I really liked it because after visiting the place and watching the documentary, it became clear to me that Garrell invested many hours here, with a lot of enthusiasm and passion.

In 1892, Arístides de Artiñano from Barcelona registered two iron ore mines with the names "Niño Jesús" and "Victoria Esperanza", after having carried out some promising prospecting. It was already known that iron had been mined in this area of Les Gavarres in the s. XVIII, and the growing Catalan industrial economy of the s. XIX needed this raw material to develop, along with coal. The mine is made up of a set of galleries that drill the northern side of the Bacs mountain at different levels, with 23 open galleries located. The mine was closed in 1918, after only 26 years of operation, due to the low profitability of the iron ores and the cost of transport to the foundries. The charger is the first item you will find, on the right hand side of the path, following some stairs with a wooden railing. It is the most characteristic and significant of the mining complex and is located at the confluence between the Mavalls stream and the Deveses stream. Following the path again, you will reach the main mines that are at the foot of the route. Nowadays the galleries have become an important resting and breeding habitat for bats, animals often despised for their appearance and associated mythology, but of great natural importance for their predatory ability on insects and as bioindicators of the quality environmental and the impact of climate change on an ecosystem. It is advised not to enter the galleries, for safety reasons and to preserve the tranquility of the fauna that lives there.

The origin of the sanctuary of Sant Segimon dates back to the 13th century when a chapel was built using the cave. Legend has it that this sanctuary was inhabited by the King of Burgundy, Sigismund (hence its Catalan name "Segimon"), who acted as a hermit.

The Baumes de Caixurma are a complex system of labyrinthine galleries and narrow cracks that run between large blocks. Located south of Castellfollit de la Roca, within the municipality of Montagut and Oix. These are blocks of bluish-gray shale marl. According to the cartography of the Geological Institute of Catalonia, they are Eocene materials from the Lutetian. The entrances to the baumes, with an approximate length of 400m, are hidden by the dense vegetation