Groups: minimum of 20 people.
Price: 3’50 €/person.
Duration: Approx. 2 hours 45 mins.

• Josep Pla Route

Itinerary: Fundació Josep Pla, Palafrugell town centre, Sant Sebastià Lighthouse and Calella

The Josep Pla Route is an itinerary designed by the Fundació for readers to get to know Pla’s work and various significant places related to Pla in Palafrugell and the surrounding area. It’s route is marked by the biographical and literary references to the author.

This offer does not include all the points of the itinerary but does combine some points of the Route with the visit to the Fundació Josep Pla. You can always do the entire itinerary on your own account, using the Ruta Josep Pla folder.

First of all, you will visit the Fundació Josep Pla (carrer Nou, 51) where you will be informed about the organisation’s objectives and the material that it has accrued. In addition you will see an audiovisual presentation of the writer and his literary and life’s journey.

Once the visit to the Fundació is over we will begin the Route.

First of all, we will head towards Carrer Torres i Jonama, number 56, where the Pla family went to live in 1904; then we will head towards Plaça Nova, formerly an olive grove outside the town walls, where you can find the Círculo Mercantil (former casino of the wealthy), which closed in 1988, and the Centre Fraternal (a still functioning working man’s club); and after that we will head towards the Can Bech gardens where the monument that Palafrugell dedicated to the writer in 1984, the work of the sculptor Manel Cusachs, is situated.

Once the visit to Palafrugell is over, we will take the bus and head for the Sant Sebastià Lighthouse, the place in which Pla, in his youth, made his first attempts at writing. It is necessary to go to the hermitage to contemplate the immensity of the sea from the terrace of the former hostel and the current Hotel El Far.

And, following this, we will head down to Calella, to Canadell, summer beach of the Pla family, and then we will continue on foot to Port Bo, Calella’s activity centre. The centre is not only concerned with historical maritime life but also current leisure activities.