Girona, a Gothic Town That's a Place Apart

The Old Town of Girona on the River Onyar

We're winding up our study trip by spending a few slow days in Girona, a university town a little more than an hour north of Barcelona in the rolling foothills of the Pyrenees. As a welcome relief from the intensity of Barcelona, students are finding time to wander many of its narrow, gothic streets where there's always something to study around every corner. A major plus of the city is that it is filled with a plethora of contemporary insertions into its old fabric.