Roses is an essentially Mediterranean town with a notable tourist and seafaring tradition. It is situated in a unique natural setting, at the north of the Costa Brava, less than 30 kilometres from the frontier with France, 65 kilometres from Girona and 160 kilometres from Barcelona.
Its origins go back to the 8th century BC with the arrival of the Rhodians and the foundation of the Greek city of Rhodes. These historical events have become the marks of identity of a modern, culturally active and generous town born of a peaceful co-existence with other peoples and civilisations in which we find a source of pride and satisfaction.
We invite you to find your way around a town full of delights and new sensations awaiting your discovery, as did the earliest settlers over 3,000 years ago; a place in which the enjoyment of nature, culture and traditions is a privilege available to all.
Roses is a town generous to tourists visiting it, for it affords a choice of the type of tourism best-suited to each traveller. There is the pleasure of "dolce far niente", which consists in taking a dip in a delightful little cove, savouring true sea cooking, sailing around a millenary bay or simply contemplating the marvellous sunsets. Then there is a more active and dynamic kind of tourism, with a choice of countless possibilities: discovering Roses? history and heritage, going for trips in the surrounding area and along the signposted coast and mountain paths, engaging in water sports or simply enjoying fun, cultural and festive activities.
Roses bay has over the course of history been the gateway for the many peoples and civilisations who have visited our shores and left testimony to their existence. This is shown by the 3,000 years of history to be found here in the form of vestiges from the past.
Roses? unparalleled natural, geographical and climatological characteristics and the bay which bears its name have attracted human settlement from prehistory down to modern times. In between, we find Greek colonisation, Roman settlements and the medieval population, all of which left in their trail an extraordinary wealth of archaeological remains.
The town of Roses has a Mediterranean essence and a marked tourist and marine tradition. It is set amongst rich landscape and unsurpassable nature, in the north of the Costa Brava, less than 30 km from the French border, 65 km from Girona and 160 km from Barcelona.
The Mediterranean character is evident in all the municipality's sites, where diverse ambiences, native to this climate, are combined in smooth harmony, which give way to the charming bays, brilliant sunsets and impressive cliffs overlooking the sea.
This natural and scenic beauty results in three areas of special interest: the whimsical geological coastal formations of the Parc Natural del Cap de Creus, the inhospitable small Mediterranean mountain of the Paratge de l'Albera, and the wetlands, which support a great diversity of birds, of the Parc Natural dels Aiguamolls de l'Empordà.
All this combined creates an area with unique characteristics, which from the first moment seduces the visitor who dares to venture to these regions and get to know nature in its prime.
