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Half Day 3 hours

This excursion have a duration of 8 hours approximately if starts of Costa Brava/Maresme however if starts of Barcelona the duration will be 5 hours, and is developed with an autorized professionist.
The excursion is composed of:

Visit to the Cathedral of Girona. The Gerona Cathedral has the widest Gothic nave in the world. It was designed with three naves, but the prospect of a single nave caused work on it to be suspended and an argument that lasted 50 years.
To reach the main front, you must go up a large staircase from the late 17th century. The main fa�ade is Baroque, while the cloister is from the 12th century, the bell tower is from the 11th and the rest of the building is from the 14th century. The cloister is large with a trapezoidal plan that is dictated by the wall to which it is adjoined. There are works of great beauty and value on the inside. The high altar reredos made of silver, enamel and precious stones is one of the jewels of Spanish precious metalwork. The capitals of the cloister have scenes from the Old and New Testaments. The tapestry of the Creation is an important piece of Romanesque tapestry making. There is also a Beato de Li�bana.



Visit to San Felix Church. This church was built in XVI century, over a romanic building (pertaining to XII century)where were paleocristians coffins pertaining at IV century,from a cemetary present in the same place times ago. In this temple exist a chapel dedicated to San Narciso, a saint venerate in Girona (29 October)for removed the french troops of here in 1285. Furthermore, a legend tells, more flies was exit from the saint's coffin (who kill 4.000 horses and 20.000 soldiers).


Stroll in (Call or Jewish quarter). In the 12th century, Jews moved to a lower part of the city. In 1160 they were already inhabiting the Call, the name given to Jewish quarters in Catalonia. It is a name coming from Latin callis (street), which would become carrer in Catalan and calle in Spanish. In medieval times, call meant a �group of narrow streets�. The most humble houses were erected in the Call, specially in the narrowest and wettest streets. Usually two-storey houses and with as few as two rooms, whole Jewish families could be found working inside the house. These paved, narrow and labirynth streets constituted the urban space where most of the Jewish population in Girona settled in the 13th and 14th centuries, along with Jewish institutions and Christian workshops and dwellings. If was only at the time of the conflicts that took place in the 15th century that the Call became a reclusion space. In 1448 a municipal order gave Jews six days to abandon their dwellings outside the Call and forced them to live inside the Call.
Gradually, during the second half of the 15th century, the Call became a more and more reduced space, at the same time that it became more and more separate from its original nucleus, the carrer de la For�a. Thus, the Call became a place of reclusion and marginalisation, an urban redoubt in the medieval city.



Notes : The cost of a eventuals entrances in museums or enclosures of patrimony of the state will be paid by clients.
The expenses cost will be paid also by clients. And then, will be inserted into voucher.
For eventuals entrances in museums or enclosures needs a reservation.