In its centre stands a monument depicting a small group of fighters, a memorial to those who defended Girona – albeit unsuccessfully – during the siege of 1808. The tallest of the stone ...

Fans of Spanish football will be accustomed to seeing Real Madrid and a certain Catalan club battle it out at the ... Spain isn’t Barcelona. It is Girona, playing in only its fourth top-flight ...

The legend goes that on one of the many occasions the French king turned his attention to Girona and laid siege to the city, a swarm of flies miraculously erupted from the saint’s tomb in the ...