Empuriabrava Online Blog and News

This year’s fiestas, in celebration of the patron saint of sailors and fishermen, will be held on the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th of July.

For a full itinerary of events see our Fiestas Del Carmen web page.

For those of you into big cars you might want to pop over to Alberes commercial sector this weekend (7-8 July) to see gigantic 4×4s in action in a kind of monster truck style event. The show starts at 21:30 and lasts for two hours.

One of the biggest problems of getting into Empuriabrava, especially on market day or in the summer, was the bottleneck at the end of Av. Juan Carlos on the junction with Av. Fages de Climent (by Monserrat).

The Town Council have solved the problem at a stroke. Parking has been banned between the bridge and the roundabout and the road into town has been split into two lanes; one for traffic turning left/straight on and and one for traffic turning right.

The new changes came into effect last Friday and I’ve noticed a huge difference both on Friday night and Saturday morning, two notoriously bad times to be going into town. One word of warning though: As the system is new, and as many people don’t know where they want to go anyway, there will be drivers who suddenly switch lanes.

This is a great improvement. Now all we need to do is get people to signal at roundabouts and the traffic will really get flowing!

You might have seen one or two of these motorbikes around Empuriabrava over the last last few days. That is because the Honda Goldwing Association of Spain is holding its 14th Annual Rally in Empuriabrava.

The rally is held on the 15th, 16th and 17th of June and there is a spectacular “Parade of Nations” through town on Friday where all of the bikes in the rally drive through Empuriabrava. The parade starts at 20:00 from the main gate of Camping International Amberes. The parade is well worth watching and the best place to see it is along the beach front.
A program of events can be found at the Goldwing Association of Spain website.

Empuriabrava Beach has once again been awarded the “Blue Flag” for the quality of the beach.

According to the Blue Flag website:

“The Blue Flag works towards sustainable development at beaches/marinas through strict criteria dealing with water quality, environmental education and information, environmental management, and safety and other services”.

Empuriabrava Beach is one of 499 Spanish beaches to be awarded the flag in 2007 - more than any other country in the world!

The fears of a drop in the Spanish property market are over hyped according to a Daily Telegraph article “The pain in Spain is mainly on the wane“.

Castelló Town Council is offering an Income Tax processing help service to Castelló residents. The service is free and available between 8am and 5pm in the council administration office until 15th June.

Call 972 25 07 53 for an appointment.

Fears of a property crash have been fuelled by recent economic activity. For the full details read this China Post article.

Don’t be surprised if you see the police lurking behind bushes! Radar guns are going to be used in Empuriabrava to catch speeding drivers. Hopefully they will start on Llobregat - it’s not a racetrack people!
Don’t forget that the speed limit in town is 40kph (25mph).

Castelló Town Council have announced that there is to be a public/private partnership responsible for the maintenance, security and cleaning of Empuriabrava’s canal system.

The partnership will shortly become official and is between Castelló Council and Port Empuriabrava S.L. - the company recently awarded the concession to run the marina and canals.