Parken & groengebieden voor honden in Girona

Girona's monumental 40-hectare park of towering plane trees, laid out in shaded avenues between the old town and the Ter river, holds two of the city's five fenced dog runs. The gravel alleys stay cool even in high summer, the best midday refuge in town for a dog.

The flagship stretch of Girona's five official canine itineraries (7 km in total), where the city expressly allows off-leash walking under the owner's control, following the Ter's banks past meadows and poplar groves. Flat, waterside and linked to the Devesa, it is the standard morning circuit of Girona's dog owners.

Directly behind the cathedral, the green Sant Daniel valley slips out of the city walls into the wooded Gavarres massif, with one of the official canine itineraries at its mouth and marked hiking trails beyond. Springs, a Romanesque monastery and holm-oak forest within 20 minutes' walk of the Barri Vell.