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Palamós is a town and municipality in the Mediterranean Costa Brava, located in the comarca of Baix Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
Palamos was founded and recognised as a village on 3 December 1279 by 'Pere el Gran', 'Comte de Barcelona' (Peter III of Aragon). He wanted to found a new port on the coast as the previous royal port in the region at Torroella de Montgrí on the River Ter had silted up. Palamós is situated at the northern end of a large bay, which is popular for swimming, sailing and windsurfing. The town is by-passed by the C31 which connects the coastal towns of the central Costa Brava with Girona. Palafrugell lies 8.5 km to the north and Castell-Platja d'Aro 7 km to the south. The town is a major port (with the closure of Sant Feliu the only commercial harbour in the Province of Girona) with one of the last remaining fishing fleets on this part of the mediterranian coast. It is famous for the locally caught prawns (Gambes). In the picture the "new" or relatively recent pleasure harbour. |
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Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in Girona province, Catalonia, Spain. It is on a bay near the Cap de Creus peninsula, on the Costa Brava of the Mediterranean Sea. It is only a two-and-a-half hour drive from Barcelona, therefore it is very accessible and not only attracts tourists, but people who want a second house to have on the weekends and summers. In 2002 it had a population of 2,612 people.
Artist Salvador Dalí often visited here in his childhood, and later kept a home in Port Lligat, a small bay next to the village. Other notable artists, including Mei Fren (see his commanding charcoals of the nineteenth century Cadaqués beleaguered by a winter tramontan in the Cadaqués museum. He was the first artist to live in Cadaqués and gave the town many of his works and a marble top table on which he sketched many of its turn of the century fishermen), Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Antoni Pitxot, Henri-François Rey, Melina Mercouri and Maurice Boitel also spent time here. Cadaqués is mentioned in the story Tramontana by Gabriel García Márquez. |
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Joan Claret, Catalan abstract painter, is his study of Sant Feliu de Guixols.
More info: http://www.joanclaret.com http://www.bigpict.es |
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View from Sant Feliu de Guixols. Costa Brava. Catalunya, Spain.
You can see other great gigapans here: http://share.gigapan.org/viewProfile.php?userid=15138 Puedes ver otras panoramicas gigapixel aqui: http://share.gigapan.org/viewProfile.php?userid=15138 Full Pano Collection: http://www.meteoqueixans.com/wp/ Coleccion completa de panoramicas: http://www.meteoqueixans.com/wp/ |
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This is an image taken on the Boca Brava stony beach, off the coast of Panama, near David. |
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+info: http://www.bigpict.es |
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Palamós is a town and municipality in the Mediterranean Costa Brava, located in the comarca of Baix Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
Palamos was founded and recognised as a village on 3 December 1279 by 'Pere el Gran', 'Comte de Barcelona' (Peter III of Aragon). He wanted to found a new port on the coast as the previous royal port in the region at Torroella de Montgrí on the River Ter had silted up. Palamós is situated at the northern end of a large bay, which is popular for swimming, sailing and windsurfing. The town is by-passed by the C31 which connects the coastal towns of the central Costa Brava with Girona. Palafrugell lies 8.5 km to the north and Castell-Platja d'Aro 7 km to the south. The town is a major port (with the closure of Sant Feliu the only commercial harbour in the Province of Girona) with one of the last remaining fishing fleets on this part of the mediterranian coast. It is famous for the locally caught prawns (Gambes). In the picture the "new" or relatively recent pleasure harbour. |
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This image was taken at an island off the coast of Panama near David. This shot was taken about 10 meters from a beautiful sandy beach. |
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The Gulf of Roses (Spanish: Golfo de Rosas, Catalan: Golf de Roses) is the most north eastern bay on the Spanish coast.
The Bay is 16 km wide and is formed by the valley of the El Fluvià but also contains the esturies of the Manol and La Muga. These rivers drain the southern flanks of the eastern end of the Pyrenees and Alberes. The area is often effected by the severe Tramuntana wind. The bay contains the resorts of Roses, Castelló d'Empúries/Empúriabrava, Sant Pere Pescador, Empúries and L'Escala. The bay was originally settled by the Greeks who created a trading post at Empúries which became a Roman town before being abandoned after Viking and Muslim pirate raids along the coast. The area was the domain of the Count of Empúries. The area was malarial swamp for much of the middle ages. Irrigation schemes lead to much of the former marshland becoming farmland. Tourism caused further encrouchment in particular the 1960's resort of Empúriabrava which includes canals and morings for detached villas. An important wintering spot for travelling birds the marsh has now been designated the Parc Natural Aiguamols de L'Empordà. To the north overlooking the Bay lies the Parc Natural de Cap de Creus. |