A Girona Walkabout, Girona, Spain

I have been to Catalonia and Costa Brava many times in the last dozen years but never visited Girona until this year.

The tower in the top center of the shot belongs to the remarkable Catedral de Santa Maria de Girona.

The dominating position of the cathedral over the city means that the high tower of Basílica de Sant Feliu, Girona’s earlier cathedral, appears practically at the eye level.

Cathedral’s Gothic interior is on the darker and oppressive side, but there are some brilliant stained glass windows.

As much as I enjoy seeing great churches, the most remarkable sight in Girona is not the cathedral, but the banks of river Onyar in the town center.

The colourful buildings on both sides create such a vibrant palette that it is hard to step away from it.

Here is a selection of different angles and focal-length shots of a stretch less than a kilometer long.

The red bridge that features in a couple of shots – where it does not, I am very likely standing on it myself – is called Pont de les Peixateries Velles (Old Fishermen’s Bridge). ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).