The Albera's massif natural park
This reserve known as the Paratge Natural d’Interès Nacional de l’Albera is found on the south part of the Albera massif and is characterised by two very different areas. To the west we find central European vegetation with humid groves of beech and oak, and to the east the flora of cork-oak and thicket is of a more Mediterranean nature, and it is here where the last remaining Mediterranean turtle populations live.
Cap de Creus' natural park
The Parc Natural del Cap de Creus is an area of great beauty located between land and sea. It boasts a unique geological setting and its formations and outcrops can be seen nowhere else in the world. The erosive effect of the Tramuntana north wind has created unusual structures transforming the landscape into one of distinctive beauty.
Garrotxa Volcanic Area Natural Park
The Parc Natural de la Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa is the greatest example of a volcanic landscape in the Iberian Peninsula. It has some forty volcanic cones and more than twenty basaltic lava flows.
The terrain, soil and climate give rise to varied and often exuberant vegetation with beech groves and different varieties of oak all creating this exceptional landscape.
Natural park of the Empordà's Aiguamolls
The Empordà Wetlands, Aiguamolls de l’Empordà in Catalan, were created by the courses of the Fluvià and Muga rivers (l’Alt Empordà region) and the Ter and Daró rivers (el Baix Empordà region). Technically, these Wetlands extend across the whole of the bay of Roses and once formed numerous lakes, lagoons and marshlands. They were cut off from the sea by a sandbar. Over time the sediments deposited by the rivers have formed the present day lagoon.
