To banish for ever your perception of the Costa Brava as package tour hell. Just north of Palamós, Castell is the only sandy beach on this part of the coast to have escaped development, owing to ...

The Costa Brava may be most famous for its beaches, but you could easily spend a week or more in these parts without dipping a toe in the water. There’s something here for pretty much everyone from ...

But a recent family holiday proved how wrong I was. We stayed in a town north of Barcelona called Palamos, which starts by the sea and then climbs up a steep hill where scores of attractive villas ...

The 49th Palamós Christmas Race came to an epic conclusion on a final day marked by demanding conditions of wind, rain and cold, closing an edition that will long be remembered.