Local Area

Empuriabrava

Over 7.000 m of wide sandy beaches and 24 km of navigable canals, Empuriabrava has a peculiar design, a wide range of sea and air sports and a complete sport harbour.
Situated in beautiful Catalonia, there are many opportunities for days out. Barcelona is only 2 hours away, the town of Figueres is 10km away and is an attractive market town which also has the Dali Museum. Castillo D'Empuries is 5km away and is ideal for a gentle walk through the ancient narrow street and alleys. Or you could visit picture-postcard Cadeques, the fishing village much favoured by artists.

About the Area: Costa-Brava, Spain

Situated 2 hours North of Barcelona is the beautiful bay of Roses. The mixture of Spanish sun, beautiful bays and the Pyranees mountains makes this one of the most incredible places to Skydive in the world. There is great night life and cuisine too!

Within Empuriabrava there are local shops, banks, restaurants and supermarkets, only 5 mins walk from the drop zone. There is a fitness centre, swimming pool, sauna, gym and internet cafe nearby. A short distance away empuriabrava boasts a beautiful a natural park with riverside walks and also boat trips or boat hire to enable you to explore the 19km of leisure waterways. Fishing, cycling, golf, tennis, horse riding and more, are all close by. (There's a good tourist information centre just off the beach promenade).

The Drop Zone itself has its own cafe bar with free wireless access 24 hours a day.

Castello d'Empuries

Castello d'Empuries is a labyrinth of narrow streets and squares, Catalan bars and excellent restaurants. Places of interest include the magnificent Gothic Church of Santa Maria, The Exchange House, The Sant Dominec Monastry, the Santa Clara Convent, the Washhouse and the Silk Museum. Bed and breakfast travelers can also count on many options for outdoor recreation including water sports, horseback riding, biking and golfing.

Cadaques

The prosperous seaside resort of Cadaqués bears little relation these days to the rundown backwater of a fishing village that Dalí first came to know and love during childhood holidays before the First World War.
Today its neat, built-up esplanades and carefully kept swimming coves are a far cry from the slovenly grit and shingle strand from which Cadaqués’s fishermen launched their boats in former times to pursue that precious commodity, a shoal of sardines, whenever the cry went up that one of them had been spotted out at sea.
Yet, if you leave behind the hustle and bustle of high holiday season in the square and wander off into the rugged terrain surrounding the village, it does not take long to see what a profound influence this strange landscape exerted on Dalí’s fanciful sensibility.