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 Car Hire & Driving in Gerona, SpainWelcome to Gerona Car Hire, Spain; available at Gerona Costa Brava Airport.Gerona car HireThe city of Girona (Gerona in Castilian), originally a Roman settlement, is strategically located at the intersection of four rivers and lies a short way inland in your hire car from the Costa Brava on the A7-E17 motorway, providing you with plenty to see and do in your hire car in and around Gerona. Completely surrounded by walls up until modern times, Gerona was so regularly besieged that it became known as ‘the city of a thousand sieges. Gerona’s famous medieval barrio is one of Europe’s biggest and best Jewish quarters that you can explore in your hire car while in Gerona. While exploring Gerona in your hire car there is plenty for you to see including the former monastery of Sant Pere de Galligants, which lies to the north of Gerona’s old town in your hire car. Beside the monastery the Riu Galligants now houses an archaeological museum, where the highlight is the collection of Jewish gravestones which are worth a visit in your hire car while in Gerona. Across the river in your hire car, the Banys Arabs were built in 1295 not by Muslims but by Christians and are equally worth investigating while touring Gerona in your hire car. Gerona’s cathedral is famous for its Gothic nave, the widest in the world and definitely worth a look while exploring Gerona in your hire car. Construction of this superb basilica began in 1312 and took over four centuries to complete. Opposite Gerona cathedral’s main entrance in your hire car you will find the Museu Capitular, which has a fine collection of ecclesiastical treasures, including medieval tapestries and manuscripts, also worth investigating while exploring Gerona in your hire car. To the north east of Gerona in your hire car you will find the Castell de Pubol, a Gothic and Renaissance castle owned by Salvador Dali and furnished in Dali’s outlandish surrealist style. You will find the castle in which Dali lived between 1982 and 1984 just off the C-255 from Gerona in your hire car, between Flaca and Parlova, another two places which you can visit in your hire car from Gerona. Of course Gerona is also only a short drive in your hire car from the delightful beaches of the Costa Brava. The longest of which you will find directly south of Gerona in your hire car in the town of Blanes. Gerona Costa Brava Airport Car HireGerona Costa Brava Airport is located 13km (8 miles) south west of Gerona in your hire car, with good access to the A7-E15 motorway to travel north of Gerona in your hire car to the Pyrenees, south of Gerona in your hire car towards Barcelona and from Gerona to the Costa Brava in your hire car. Gerona Costa Brava Airport has only one passenger terminal with an annual capacity of 3 million passengers through 25 check-in desks. Gerona Costa Brava Airport operates 24 hours a day. At Gerona Costa Brava Airport there are 85 short term and 5530 long term parking spaces, should you need to leave your hire car at Gerona Costa Brava Airport. Gerona Costa Brava Airport has all the facilities you would expect, including a post office, bank, bureau de change, auto exchange machine, restaurants, cafeterias, bars, VIP lounge, duty free shop, newsagent/tobacconist, first aid, baby/parent room, car rental services and a tourist information desk which can provide advice on what to see and do in your hire car while in Gerona. Spain Car HireSpain. To the ancient Greeks, Spain was the land where Hercules’ golden apples grew; to the Arabs, Spain was the ground floor of heaven; to writers such as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway, Spain was an area where history skittered between heroic feats and tragedy, and bullfighters flirted with death in work of an afternoon. Few other places so dramatically stimulate the imagination as Spain, as you will be able to discover in your hire car. Despite the steady traffic from Spain’s coastal resorts, Spain has remained in the eyes of outsiders a mysterious, half-mythical country. Spain’s long stretches of isolation from the rest of Europe began with Spain’s peninsular geography and were underscored by history. 700 years of Moorish occupation, were followed by a powerful empire that colonised the New World, the failure of which led via the Spanish Civil War 1936-9 to the oppressive regime of General Franco, all of which have left their mark of Spain, as you will be able to discover while touring in your hire car. However years of isolations for Spain has made it far from homogeneous. Spain embraces four languages and around seven dialects, and climate ranges go from the Subtropical south, sweet with its mangos ,and hibiscus, to the emerald north, with its gorse and heather and plunging fjords, providing you with so much choice of country side to investigate while touring Spain in your hire car. During your trip to Spain you will find some constants while in your hire car. One is light, the glorious sunshine that northern Europeans flock to bask in; but don’t make a mistake of just lying by the pool while, with so much to see and do, take advantage of the glorious light to tour the sights in your hire car. The other constant is a tremendous vitality, which you can observe in cafes and strolling Sunday evening crowds, in haughty urbanites and exuberant fiesta crowds while touring Spain in your hire car. Spain covers an area of 194,885 square miles (504,880sq km) with its capital, Madrid, situated almost in the centre. The Kingdom of Spain is a constitutional monarchy under King Juan Carlos I of the House of Bourbon, which has been on the Spanish throne since the death of Franco in 1975. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions, each with its own legislature. Spain is a member of the European Union, accepting the euro as its currency in 2002; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Foreign motorists must have either an international driving licence from their country of origin and this also applies when using a hire car, so make sure your driving licence is packed before you leave for Spain. Spain has about 195,850 miles (317,000km) of highway for you to explore in your hire car; however only a few thousand kilometres of them are fast, convenient and relatively safe motorways. There are toll fees payable if using the modern motorways in your hire car while, which have rest areas, bars and service stations, and roadside telephones are also places at convenient intervals, to enable you to call for assistance in the case of emergency or breakdown in your hire car. The speed limits while driving in your hire car are 120kph (75mph) on motorways, 100kph (60mph) on all other roads and 60kph (35mph) when driving through cities and towns. In Spain seatbelts must be worn by the driver and all passengers in your hire car, and your hire car should be quipped with a spare set of head and rear-light bulbs or you could face a penalty fine. To hire ca car you have to be at least 19 years of age with either an international licence or a valid licence from your own country. With so much varied countryside around Spain it’s recommended to have a hire car to really be able to explore Spain’s full potential without having to worry about public transport. A hire car will also enable you to investigate the more remote areas of Spain where public transport may not be readily available. Catalonia and Costa Brava region Car HireCovering the area from the Pyrenees in the north of Spain to the Mediterranean in the east of Spain and the Ebre valley in the south west of Spain, the region of Catalonia offers diverse scenery and attractions to discover in your hire car while. Catalonia appears to have everything for you to see in your hire car while: rocky coasts, sandy beaches, lush plains, steppe, foothills and high sierra, all within a couple of hours of the major European metropolis of Barcelona in your hire car. There are historic cities and towns, tiny fishing villages, mountain hamlets, some 1,000 Romanesque chapels, Roman bridges, centuries-old farmhouses, vineyards, wheat fields, orchards, trout streams and wild boar, all to discover in your hire car driving around the Catalonia region of Spain. Catalonia’s 12,320 square miles (31,910sq km) comprise 6% of Spain’s share of the Iberian peninsula, and are divided into four provinces that you can explore in your hire car, Barcelona, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. But the most obvious components of Catalonia for you to investigate in your hire car are the Mediterranean coast of the Costa Brava, the Pyrenees and the interior. The term Costa Brava, meaning sheer, bold, rocky coast, was originally coined by the Catalan journalist Ferran Agullo in 1905 and initially only referred to part of the rough Catalonian coastline north of Barcelona. The Costa Brava is now taken to include all of the seafront that you can explore in your hire car in the Girona Province, from Blanes, which has one of the Costa Brava’s longest beaches that you can visit in your hire car, all the way up to the French border.
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