Private Transfer from Barcelona to Roses

Roses is an Alt Empordà town at the center of Roses Bay. The Costa Brava guide of the Generalitat de Catalunya describes the bay as a deep inlet some 15 km long, closed by the Cap de Creus peninsula to the north and the Montgrí massif to the south. The town began as Rhode, a Greek colony founded by settlers from Massalia in the 4th century BC. In 1543 Charles V ordered the bay fortified: the Citadel, an irregular pentagon that encloses the remains of Rhode, Roman settlements and the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria, and the star-shaped castle of La Trinitat on Punta de la Poncella, built between 1544 and 1551. Roses still has a fishing port, and the guide suggests walking the harbor in the evening, when the boats come in followed by gulls.

Out of Barcelona, the estimate stays on the AP-7 until Vilamalla, near Figueres, follows the N-II briefly and then takes the C-260 past Vila-sacra, Castelló d'Empúries and Empuriabrava before it reaches Roses. Outside the town, the municipality takes in the coves of L'Almadrava, Montjoi and Jòncols and Cap Norfeu, an integral reserve of the Cap de Creus Natural Park, so a stay away from the center needs its exact address.