Cap de Creus (Cova de l’Infern)

El Salpatx (Medes)

Islas Formigues

La Pared del Vaporetto

Medes Islands – El Dofí

Wreck of the Boreas

Wreck of the Garcia del Cid

The Costa Brava plates suquet de peix fish stew, black rice and the famous L’Escala anchovies, paired with Empordà wines. Local ingredients and simple coastal preparation let the pure Catalan flavours shine through in every seafood meal. Local ingredients and simple coastal preparation let the pure Spanish flavours shine through in every seafood meal, best enjoyed with regional wine after a day in the water.

Hotel Medes II

Hotel Playa Sol

Hotel Trias

Hotel Diana

The Costa Brava is mainland Spain’s most celebrated Mediterranean diving, crowned by the Medes Islands reserve off L’Estartit. Decades of protection have produced enormous, tame dusky groupers, dense schools of jacks and dentex, gorgonian walls and light-filled caverns such as the Cova de la Vaca and Dolfí tunnel. Nearby Cap de Creus Natural Park adds rugged rock, sea caves and superb visibility, while the Boreas and Garcia del Cid wrecks provide artificial reefs. Formigues islets and Tossa de Mar round out a varied coast. Warm summers, mature marine life and excellent infrastructure make this a European classic. This region rewards careful planning and respects Spain’s marine-protection rules, offering rewarding diving across a wide range of experience levels through a long and varied season.

Catalonia – Costa Brava & Medes Islands

Fly into Girona (GRO) or Barcelona (BCN); the Medes are dived from L’Estartit, with other sites at Cadaqués, Palamós, Tossa de Mar and Lloret de Mar, all by short boat trips.