Taxi to Medieval Villages of the Empordà

The stone villages of the Baix Empordà are close together on the map and almost impossible to link by public transport. Peratallada, Pals, Monells, Madremanya and Ullastret sit within twenty minutes of each other; Besalú with its eleventh-century bridge is further north near Olot; Púbol, where Dalí bought his wife a castle, is between them. Between any two, the bus timetable ranges from awkward to non-existent.

Most people book this as a transfer to one village where they are staying, or as a day with the car and driver kept for several hours. The second works well: three or four villages in a day, with the car waiting while you walk and eat, and no parking to find in places where parking is scarce and the streets are cobbled.

If you are staying in one of the restored farmhouses — a masia — the address will usually be a name and a road number rather than a street. Send the pin. We reach a lot of these houses and the ones with no signage are exactly where a driver without local knowledge loses half an hour.

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