Costa Brava Map: Cadaqués, Begur and the Coves

Costa Brava Map

Brava means rugged, and the name was coined in 1908 by the journalist Ferran Agulló for exactly the reason the map shows: this is pine, cliff and cove rather than open sand. It is really three coasts. The southern end around Lloret is mass tourism; the middle, from Palafrugell to Begur, is the postcard; the north around Cadaqués and Cap de Creus is bare rock and tramuntana wind.

Type of place

What is plotted on the Costa Brava map

The map carries 15 places on this coast: 4 towns, 3 historic sites, 2 natural parks, 2 museums, 2 beaches, 1 village, 1 theme park. They span roughly 79 km in a straight line, from Cap de Creus in the north to Water World Lloret in the south.

The Costa Brava coast, north to south

Every marker on the map, in the order you would meet it driving south. The distance is a straight line from the place above it.

PlaceTypeFrom previous
Cap de CreusNatural park—
Salvador Dalí House Museum
Dalí’s house in Portlligat grew from a single fisherman’s hut into a labyrinth of nine buildings over 40 years —		Museum4 km
CadaquésTown1 km
Ciutadella de Roses
The Ciutadella de Roses encloses 2,300 years of layered history — Greek, Roman, Visigothic and medieval — inside a 16th-century		Historic site9 km
Aiguamolls de l’Empordà Natural Park
Aiguamolls de l’Empordà was drained as malarial swampland, then deliberately rebuilt — even its rice fields were replanted on purpose		Natural park7 km
EmpúriesHistoric site10 km
Iberian Town of Ullastret
Ullastret was the largest Iberian city in Catalonia — and in 2012, excavators found human skulls nailed up as war		Historic site15 km
GironaTown22 km
BegurTown32 km
Cork Museum of Palafrugell
Palafrugell’s Cork Museum occupies Spain’s largest former cork factory — an Art Nouveau building for a material that once employed		Museum5 km
LlafrancBeach3 km
Calella de PalafrugellVillage1 km
La Fosca
A 1272 deed recorded the right to tax fish landed on La Fosca beach — a working fishing ground for		Beach5 km
Tossa de MarTown23 km
Water World Lloret
Water World opened in 1985 as one of Spain’s first water parks — and 40 years later still holds European		Theme park9 km

By what you are looking for

Town (4): Cadaqués, Girona, Begur, Tossa de Mar

Historic site (3): Ciutadella de Roses, Empúries, Iberian Town of Ullastret

Natural park (2): Cap de Creus, Aiguamolls de l’Empordà Natural Park

Museum (2): Salvador Dalí House Museum, Cork Museum of Palafrugell

Beach (2): Llafranc, La Fosca

Village (1): Calella de Palafrugell

Theme park (1): Water World Lloret

Which comarca each place sits in

This coast is not one administrative unit. These are the comarques the mapped places belong to, which is also how local signage and bus networks are organised.

How to read the map

Each marker is coloured by place type, so a glance tells you whether a point is a beach, a town or a natural park. Clicking a marker opens its name, type and a link to the full page. The checkbox bar above the map filters by type: untick everything except beaches to see only the coastline, or leave only historic sites to plan a day inland. Markers cluster when zoomed out, so a number in a circle means several places sit close together — zoom in and the cluster splits.

For the coast written up as a single read, see the Costa Brava guide or the region page.

How to use this map

The map is scoped to this coast: the pins are the destinations on it, not the whole of Spain. The filters above narrow it further — show only beaches, or only coves, viewpoints, castles, museums or natural parks.

Town guides on this coast

For the coast in words, see the full guide, or the region page for its destinations by area. Every Spanish coast is on the main CostaMap map.

Every place we have mapped on the Costa Brava

57 towns, beaches, coves and landmarks, kept up to date automatically.

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