Girona · Cataluña
Torroella de Montgrí
A once-important medieval port left high and dry by the receding Mediterranean, now standing inland beneath a crenellated hilltop castle.
What Torroella de Montgrí is like
Portrait drawn from The Rough Guide.
8km from Ullastret, 9km beyond Pals, 5km inland from the sea.
Worth the trip
- Castell de Montgrí, a huge crenellated hilltop castle begun by King Jaume II in 1294 but never completed
- The fourteenth-century parish church of Sant Genís
Fiestas
- Festival de Torroella de Montgrí, each July and August, featuring classical music
A little history
Once an important medieval port, today left high and dry by the receding Mediterranean, standing 5km inland.
Who it suits: Classical-music festival goers
The numbers
The decision data — each figure against the Spanish average. Regional overlays and estimates are labelled, and where there's no local reading we say so plainly.
Climate
- Winter average temp
- 9.9°C 2.1°C above the Spanish average (7.8°C)
- Summer high (Jul–Aug)
- 30.5°C 0.3°C above the Spanish average (30.2°C)
- Rainy days a year
- 63 days 9% less than the Spanish average (69 days)
- Sunshine
- no local data
- Summer water stress (WEI+) regional estimate
- 73 16 above the Spanish average (56)
Cost & economy
- Home price
- no local data
- Net income per person
- €14,152 about the Spanish average (€14,495)
- Income growth ’18–’23
- 25.1%
Schools
- Schools in town
- 7
- Nearest international school
- 28 km
- PISA maths (region) regional estimate
- 469 12 below the Spanish average (481)
Healthcare
- Drive to a hospital
- 31 min
- Nearest health centre
- 3.5 km
- Surgical wait (region) regional estimate
- 142 days 32% more than the Spanish average (108 days)
Getting around
- Drive to nearest airport
- 62 min
- Fibre-to-home coverage
- 92% 13% above the Spanish average (79%)
- 100 Mbps+ coverage
- 99% 16% above the Spanish average (83%)
Who lives here
- Population
- 12,507
- Born in Spain
- 66.7% 22.1% below the Spanish average (88.8%)
- Born elsewhere in EU/UK
- 8% 4.2% above the Spanish average (3.8%)
- U.S.-born residents
- 1.44 per 1,000
Numbers: SettleSpain town dataset, derived from INE, AEMET, Mitma, Ministerio del Interior and the Catastro. National average = the unweighted mean across all 8,132 Spanish municipalities with data. A blank means no municipal-level figure is published — not a zero.
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