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L'Estartit on the Northern Costa Brava Coast sits 6km to the east of main town Torroella de Montgri and 51km north of Girona Airport. The Estartit area, including rocky Islets the Illes Medes situated 1m off-shore, is a centre for diving on the Costa Brava.
Estartit's beach is also a big pull, long and sandy and popular with visitors seeking an all inclusive beach holiday package with a diving edge! You're hardly isolated though - with car hire from Girona Airport it's easy to reach Girona south via the A7 fast motorway, and Barcelona further south. Bus services are also reasonable and run to Barcelona, Girona and the main Costa Brava hotspots like Platja D'Aro and Lloret from Estartit. Alongside diving around the Islas Medes, sailing is popular from Estartit's pretty harbour. Estartit Sailing Club situated within the harbour has a sailing school and offers windsurfing.
The lesser known Estartit coast of the Costa Brava is picking up on the popularity front. Estartit boats around 15km of coastline, mixing long sandy beach areas with rocky coves and offshore islets. The rocky coves around the Montgri coast are easily reached from Estartit on-foot, via some spectacular coastal paths. Main beach Plata Gran de L'Estartit serves as the main tourist hub for swimming, with numerous watersports available alongside shallow waters and fine sand. Quieter Platja de Griells still offers a good choice of watersports. For full listings on Estartit's many smaller rocky coves and beaches checkout the excellent Visit Estartit Tourist Webguide right.
It's the natural wonders around Estartit that really attract visitors to the area. These are inland and offshore. The rocky Medes Islands are a hub for scuba diving. This tiny archipelago covers around 23 hectares a mile off-shore from the main beach at Estartit. The 7 islets which together form the Medes were made a marine reserve in 1983 - good job too as since then there's been considerable recovery of the rich seabed and many species near extinction have been saved. Diving amongst the underwater tunnels and cave cavities of the Medes is a diving experience indeed. Coloured seaweeds, starfish, corals, octopus, lobster and event deeper below 20 metres miniature brightly coloured forests of over 600 species of fauna. Experienced divers will be well aware of the Medes territory. For more information, and listings on Diving Schools in Estartit see the Visit Estartit Tourist webguide right. You can also hook into scuba diving trips and glass bottom boat rides via kiosks situated on Estartit harbour.
That's not all on the natural wonders front in the Estartit area. The Baix Emporda wetlands sit near the coast on the Ter and Daro river deltas between L'Estartit and the Montgri Massif. The recovery programme underway on the wetlands is coming along brilliantly (see news via their website right). The wetlands are a hub for numerous reptiles, amphibians, fish and birds.
On land, Estartit is equally good for outdoor leisure activities including horse riding, Costa Brava mini golf, go-karting and walking and cycling. For full listings of outdoor leisure providers see Visit L'Estartit webguide right. Find L'Estartit's Tourist Information Centre on the Passeig Maritim.
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