04/11/2026
Back on the Cap de Creus, and what a day.
20km from Cadaqués to Port de la Selva, out past Portlligat and up to the Cap de Creus lighthouse, the most easterly point of mainland Spain. Standing there you’re the first person in the country to see the sun come up. This is also where the GR11 begins (or ends, depending which way you’re walking), the long trail that crosses the entire Pyrenees from here all the way to the Atlantic.
Nowhere else on the Costa Brava looks like this. The Tramuntana wind has spent millions of years carving the rock into shapes that don’t seem real. Eagles, camels, faces in the cliffs. It’s no surprise Dalí lived here and painted it over and over. From the lighthouse the path swings north along a wild, empty coastline, dropping into hidden coves like Cala Tavallera where you’ll usually have the water to yourself, before finishing with a cold drink on the harbour at Port de la Selva.
Rugged, remote and completely unlike the rest of the coast. One of my favourite days walking anywhere in Catalonia. If you’d like to walk it, send me a message.
