Painted houses stacked over the River Onyar, a cathedral with the widest Gothic nave on earth, and a Jewish quarter of stairways and dead ends built for wandering hand in hand. Girona takes Barcelona's crowds and simply declines them. Walk the medieval walls at golden hour for rooftop views to the Pyrenees, then eat seriously well — the city has a startling density of ambitious kitchens for its size.
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