Following in Pla's footsteps

After vis­it­ing the Fun­dació Josep Pla, the itin­er­ary con­tin­ues to car­rer Tor­res i Jonama, nº 56, where the Pla fam­ily moved to in 1904. Mov­ing along car­rer Es­tret, which gave its name to a novel pub­lished by Pla in 1951, go to­wards plaça Nova, where the Cer­cle Mer­can­til (for­mer casino of the wealthy classes) and the Cen­tre Fra­ter­nal are to be found.

The start­ing point for this sec­tion of the route is the local tourist of­fice in the cen­tre of Calella, while the des­ti­na­tion is the Bur­ri­caires view­point. First go through Portbò to the Canadell beach, skirt the water along the Can Genís ter­race and then take the coastal path as far as Marineda to even­tu­ally re­turn to Calella de Palafrugell.

The walk be­gins at Pedró and passes by the Torre de les Hores, the church of Sant Pere, along the city wall to the Josep Pla view­point, from where Montgrí and the Medes is­lands can be seen. This is the spot where Pla brought guests to show them the best view of Em­pordà.

This route shows the im­por­tance of the land­scape to Pla. The first stop is the Joaquim Turró view­point, with views of Llafranc bay. The route con­tin­ues to­wards the her­mitage, passes by a 15th cen­tury watch­tower and ends at the her­mitage's ter­race, which has views of the sea.

This route shows the writer's links with Tamariu. Here, the walk be­gins at the Liris beach as far as the Aigua Dolça cove after pass­ing by Salí and Tamariu bay.

Pla links with Llofriu can be seen in his au­to­bi­o­graph­i­cal and fic­tional writ­ings, such as El cam­panaret. The Llofriu route goes along the Ramal and Puig Mon­to­riol streets and through the Roma neigh­bour­hood. After the wa­ter­way, go on to the plaça de l'Església de Sant Fruitós. The route ends in Barceloneta.

The Ul­las­tret route in­cludes the Sant An­dreu hill, with its rich cul­tural and ar­chae­o­log­i­cal her­itage. The pop­u­lar writer Josep Pla took great in­ter­est in the early ar­chae­o­log­i­cal in­ves­ti­ga­tions of the site.