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A bus trip to Tossa de Mar in Tossa de Mar

last Saturday as I strolled through the streets of Tossa I'm almost a miracle. Is it one of the great coaches at the beach promenade, that is, where you never actually see a bus. Well, I have to add that the local police was already standing beside the bus and the driver asked his passengers to hand but the luggage and then to follow them to the station.

Well, the majority of the hotels in Tossa lie close to the beach or in the older part of town, so on very narrow roads, some of which are even with the normal car to drive hard, but with a coach, pure madness! Although the town Tossa forget the city for buses by traffic signs to block, then the bus driver, nevertheless, have expected too much or something because of a corresponding amount of alcohol in the street have seen double-wide.

On the other hand, I understand, of course, passengers who wish to get their luggage like to be given a little closer to the hotels, because sometimes several hundred meters have to be covered on foot, as in other places traditional hotel pick-up service seem to be very or quite simply does not exist. Guests are welcome indeed, but why offer the service. PAID the bus passengers already, although up to 50% less than the "normal" guests. But after 500 meters march with their suitcases, they are done only once and can hardly complain yet. ... With whom complain too? Most knew the tour operator the problem but held back the information because the bus has to be so full of need. Tourism is a business and no pleasure.

But motorists are in Tossa surprised so often when in front of a hotel parking (for 1 car!) Limited to 10 minutes, is it in Quick procedure looking to throw their luggage from the trunk and then have a free parking area at least 300 meters from the hotel allowed, which is associated in July and August, sometimes with greater difficulty. But come anyway just to Tossa sporting guests, how lucky! There are even accessible hotels that are just not able to drive a larger vehicle disabled.

And then the driver can practice even in the obstacle driving, an experience that many would spend a fortune. The hotels in the Vila Nova are in fact only achieve very narrow streets which are really pedestrian zone. Only the approach to the hotel by car is allowed, as this could close the hotel before it reaches the higher water level in 50 years. And, it really is an experience to squeeze his vehicle through a crowded pedestrian zone best. Some of the pedestrians to take this intrusion into their territory, unfortunately, some in person and allow the vehicles small dents or scratches with the key bit of the paint. If at least one souvenir that must not pay.

I love and feel Tossa me very well here, but many a time I wonder if the city (and hotels) should do something that a tourist in any situation in Tossa feel comfortable. If you consider, of course, that the tourism association offers nor a German website and some of the hotels to their German customers expect a translation of the site or hotel prospectus, which can be described only as "patched up", then one should perhaps not be very surprised.

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water

Each year runs from fall waiting for rain. During closing hotels and restaurants in Tossa their Porten, take some of the owners of their vacation and the staff again have to spend a winter without work, the nature is waiting for rain because after the hot, dry summer months, the reserves at the end and even the tap roots of cork oak and strawberry tree can hardly contain the vital liquid.


But do birds, insects, spiders and all the other animals around Tossa, like the people, liquid to survive. And every year, the liquid water is less, less of rain, the reservoirs are empty.

The first thought would be now, of course, the hotel building, construction of apartments and the opening up of campsites to put an end, especially as climate change increases the water shortage every year, but it unfortunately splints as if every tree was sacrificed every plant and animal before the fact is accepted that the limit is reached. Still, any foreign investor is welcome to Tossa and the cranes are the first "crane" to point to a new building, which is again a user of water and nature goes to the most important.

This year, in Catalonia already off fountains and the paths taken steps to reduce water consumption (the residents). Gardens should not be poured and private pools must remain empty. Farmers will have to live without income and the nature is something more to die.

Just a thought at the moment is important for the Government Tossa. How to Hide s water shortage before the hoped-for tourists, and how to make every tourist satisfied, not with ease (which sometimes lacking), but with water. Of course, the salt water showers are powerful, even if every tourist to die for a plant and an animal. Water is vital, not only for tourists.

But perhaps there are other solutions such as education or the showers and faucets to control time, Towels switch no longer a day ... and maybe it would be useful to the tourists already preparing for the morning, for every visitor to the inhabitants of Tossa preferable means to create hatred for tourists. destroy nature also means not to think about tomorrow, for sophisticated tourism will also keep the Parc de Sa Riera and a walk in the Cadiretes can, there may not ride a bike and see only dead trees.

water to have is a privilege, but one should remember that there were animals and plants in Tossa long before the first tourist to the way in this small town was.

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hiking in Tossa, and Cadiretes

Even if the water is still too cold for swimming, and nature is already fully awake, there are few who come to Tossa to wander around here. And, although there are proportionally far more nature and hiking trails as quiet beaches.

Numerous hiking trails in Tossa de Mar you to discover the wonders of nature or have a long history Tossa rise again. Chapels, hermitages, Iberian settlements, caves and standing stones just waiting to be discovered.

But nature lovers get to the course, except for numerous medicinal plants and also many species of Mediterranean plants, the nature of Tossa also another miracle at hand, because the mountains of Tossa, the Cadiretes combine several ecological systems, which means that one can find in Tossa except the southern vegetation and plants that are otherwise only the Atlantic are home.

But a slightly longer walk in Parc de Sa Riera provides insight on the adaptability of nature, for here meet plant the brackish water need plants that grow on river banks and the Mediterranean vegetation. The unique irrigation system of the park allowed the recovery of water to allow the natural a new life.

It's a shame that this site Tossa in secret lives and the many visitors do not use it.

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The Lighthouse Museum Interpretation Centre de la dels Fars Mediterrània "

The new city council elected last year in Tossa de Mar (Nationalkatalanistisches center CiU), the Lighthouse Museum ( Interpretation Centre de la dels Fars Mediterrània) and the bar at the lighthouse concluded for an indefinite period. The reasons include, among other work on the electrical installation work at the old sewage system, but also the work that the Bar attractive supposed to protect and make better vantage point.

According to the charge, Mrs. Maria Teresa Moré, causing the museum an annual deficit of 60,000 Euros, which of course is very surprising, considering that the museum is unique in the Mediterranean . Perhaps it is because the existence of the museum is hardly known in Tossa Tossa and visitors will also be informed of it hardly. Should perhaps also the site of the Tourist Board to improve and add a German version.

more about the Lighthouse Museum in "The Old Town Tossa "

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A quiet cove for a swim in Tossa

Tossa de Mar boasts 19 beaches, at least on the plans. How can however find all of these beaches have to burn then brown in a quiet corner? Again in theory, it is sufficient from to put up just in the car and then to sail to these many beaches, as only four of them in the catchment area of pedestrians are living directly in Tossa. Where one of the four beaches, more a towel comes closer than a beach.

we leave now, therefore, the theory and come to some sad reality. Since the beach line accessible to all must remain, one has of course the chance to rent a boat to pay for his dream beach to visit. Paddling can however be a little exhausting because of the distance, a small motorboat that can be rented in the nearby area there is something more practical.

And then of course there is the possibility to drive perhaps a slightly dangerous parking lot to look at the winding road and approach on foot the "secret" beaches. But why on foot after it but roads are? The question is easily answered. The owners of the villas have up to 2 km away from the attached beach barriers, the only be opened for residents, but not for tourists.

As the beaches now are not even at the height of the main road, but are up to 150 meters deep, at the Mediterranean level, had just remains the small foot with subsequent ascent as the only solution, apart from the boat . Maybe the whole thing is not so legally and logically, that tourists with their local tax also must pay the protection of villas, but only the city of Tossa has the right to ban these barriers to its visitors a free beach access be granted.

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take the sardines to the grave

Each country has their special traditions to Ash Wednesday and said the Carnival in a different way "until next year." In Spain, one can almost say that every place has its own method of the Carnival "bury". Together, the English have all the places that they buried a sardine, even when buried is not the right word, because in most cases, the (artificial) Sardine publicly burned after her and the king made Carnival of the process and then the verdict is announced. But there are also places where the sardines will be thrown into the sea or beheaded. in Tossa de Mar, the sardine of children who are dressed as death, carried through the city to become public to be burned. The event says farewell to the carnival and thus initiates the 40-day fast. This last parade ends up at the road Jacint Verdaguer with hot chocolate and a cake that will appeal not only to small children.

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Carnival Tossa

costumed carnival parades are now held almost everywhere. Tossa de Mar is no exception, for here will take place at Carnival time one of the trains, which mobilized the entire town.

And yet there is something in Tossa special, because there is not just the usual procession, but the day before by an additional bicycle parade. For 18 years, therefore, draw the residents dressed Tossa, especially with a large number of children for two hours through the city and prove their ingenuity in choosing their masks and disguise.

And something else is special about this event. The parade ends at the small bar in the Josep Vila Nova with a drink and the award of a trophy for the best carnival disguise.

images of that day can be found on pages El blog d'en Vitalis and Irene's Blog . Students who choose the "normal move" interested can also take a look at a recent carnival .

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customs and traditions in Tossa de Mar

There are few places in Catalonia, where customs and traditions are maintained, as in Tossa de Mar. Each month brings events to their roots in the local Catalan past bear. This is also a legend that continues to shape the present day Tossa.

Tossa more revered saint in whose honor a festival, a parade or a Aplec , a kind of friendly meeting with the Catalonian Sardana dance , has occurred, but one of the Saints has a special role: Sant Ramon de Penyafort , who in 1236 entered the ground Tossa. On the way to Barcelona, he was on the beach Mar Menuda , the little sea, stopping to make a dying man in the last minutes of his life to assist. You can still see a cross in the rock, which is to commemorate the event.

But the legend lives in Tossa not only in the memories of many, for every 23rd January, at the beach will be a High Mass, in honor of the Holy is read. Who attends this show understands the importance of the Catalan language to the inhabitants of Tossa and how far back their roots. Stranger might want someone with them, have them translated the text of the sermon and give them the whole story of the Holy closer.

more about customs in Tossa can be found on the side http://www.tossainfo.eu/tradition.html and depending on the occasion in these pages.

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The Pilgrim of Tossa

Tossa de Mar is the only point where a Preserves tradition that began around the year 1400 originated. At that time, Tossa, threatened, like all other places in the area of the plague that was already in some places its effect. Every place in his own way trying to escape the evil, including the then relatively important town of Tossa.

Tossa promised so every year on 20 Send to January as a thanksgiving pilgrimage to the Hermitage St. Sebastian in Santa Coloma de Farners if they were spared from the plague. Tossa has been spared and has been sending this time each year a pilgrim who is now accompanied by hundreds of people for some 40 km from Hermitage. The pilgrimage, which begins at seven in the morning clock is in complete silence. The night of 21. January brings the company in Santa Coloma de Farners then the next morning to go back the 40 kilometers to Tossa. Part of the pilgrims will merge the two distances barefoot.

On the evening of 21 January is the pilgrimage back to Tossa and moves with the statue of Saint Sebastian by the city. This is the only day of the year on which are lit on the wall of the old town as the lights where hundreds of spectators waiting for the return of the pilgrims. In connection with the pilgrimage and the protection of Tossa by the St. Sebastian was built in 1593 and the present capella de la Mare de Déu del Socors in Vila Nova.

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medicinal plants in Tossa de Mar

Tossa de Mar is a year-round paradise for lovers of healing or medicinal plants. During the year, let out about 100 different species observed in their development. The nearly 100 years virtually untouched forest, the plants can develop again in its original and tourists come to the really very rare in the heights of Tossa.

But medicinal plants are not only the manufacture of herbal medicines and beauty products, as many medicinal plants are also in Tossa to normal food. Thus, the wild asparagus, which here in large quantities occur, or capers, olives, blackberries and strawberries here is very typical trees with their red fruit. The only competition here comes from the birds appreciate the good fruits of course.

To enjoy this natural wealth Tossa also may have to but to venture to a height of up to 200 meters and can be one of the 19 beaches behind them, which is of course easier in winter than in summer. Comfortable shoes and maybe you should not forget, because strong rains make in a few days of the year as some way to a small adventure. This also means that it better, not to venture into the mountains when it really time for much rain falls, because discovering medicinal hot should not have to go to in a moment in danger.

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Restaurants in Tossa de Mar

Tossa de Mar, offers zuminde st of May through September, an incredible amount of restaurants. Some of them are probably among the best of Catalonia, others come across the "usual tourist food" away little. It is therefore extremely important to his nose and honest recommendations to follow in order not to experience an unpleasant surprise.

One should in his consideration definitely consider two things. In order to offer low prices suggest some restaurants "cheap" meals, but add then add in small that the prices are without VAT, forget about the drink or another "little thing" - and again I was already angry at other rumors about ears in terms of ease of use. A meal for 9 euros is not so cheap if you then wine, coffee and VAT must be expected to do so.

But what is typical of Tossa? Tapas from the classic type are rarely found and even very good pizzas are not well regarded as typical. Paella is not also from Tossa, even if one can find very good. And the really very typical dish from Tossa, Cim i tomba is probably not to everyone's taste , since dominated the garlic. And then of course there are some other excellent fish, but not belonging to the lower price range and therefore can be for many more as the highlight of a holiday considered. Who wants to eat in the restaurant every day (and not just eat out of hand is used) should certainly take into account in an appropriate amount of its holiday fund and forget that Spain, or in this case, Catalonia, still belong to the Low Countries. The current prices are more above German levels.

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Beaches Tossa

Tossa de Mar has a total of 19 different beaches of which can be achieved but only four on foot, if you live in the town itself. Two of the beaches have for years about the blue flag that guarantees a certain quality of water, which can be seen, of course, only relative, since the measurements take place very early in the year, compared to a time when the weather conditions and boat operation in any way with the summer can be. The statement must therefore be so in relative terms and can not be regarded as a true seal of approval.

The four sandy beaches from Tossa, Platja de la Mar Menuda ( http://www.tossainfo.eu/mar-menuda.html ), Platja del Reig, Platja Gran ( http://www.tossainfo .eu / platja-gran.html ) and Platja d'Codolar are also only suitable for children because children are very fast and no reason to rely on swimming. The most ideal nor the beach Mar Menuda is sandy beach with its shallow side Banyera de Ses Dones, who is also protected by the waves completely.

In the two summer months, you have to sometimes a place on the main beach Playa Gran fight, not only because of the strong crowd, invest here but also because the boats, boaters occupy a part of the sand (and water) and let the pay (or rent) lawn chairs and their toll. But it is for the skin anyway better go early morning or evening on the beach, so if there is no mass rush more.

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fish in Tossa

all who see today visit Tossa de Mar in secret even the small fishing village that was before the 50s. They would come at all to the idea that, although very limited, richness of the place is not due to the local fishing. But on the economic history Tossa we talk another time

If you think really, we understand why fishing could never lead to riches, for all the "competitive locations" on the coast have a better road connection, and had before Tossa with the film "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" in all his mouth was, more people. So how should the fishermen with their small boats to customers more quickly than the competition. The only advantage was the location that happen here fish (and occurred) that there is not already in the neighboring villages.

For a certain period of time was also a Tossa own fish market, but it was finally carried to his grave in 1992. Since then, the few remaining fishermen land their catch in Blanes offer to buy, which led last year to some friction as well as the privileges of the few remaining traditional fishing Tossa were abolished temporarily. Fishing as it is in Tossa still operated by some families is a shipwreck near, for the low income opportunity attracts no recruits.

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The arrival of the Magi from the East

As elsewhere in Spain, so wait in the Catalan Tossa the children on 24 December at the Christ child, but on the evening of 5 January on the arrival of the Three Kings who bring the gifts from the Orient, which is in a way logical, since the newborn Christ child hardly even think about gifts.

in Tossa de Mar will therefore each evening of the 5th January, a big parade, the same design to the German carnival. With the arrival of the kings and their retinue sweets are thrown in all directions, picking up the children Tossa from the street. Since the move, in which more than 100 people are involved takes place in darkness, he is also accompanied by a torchlight parade, the the atmosphere of the "Orient" is amplified.

The parade ends up at the church of the place where present the numerous children Tossa their name to the kings - with the hope of course that some of the requirements are met the next morning, which of course is no longer the object of the Kings, but the parents in attack must take.

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A former fishing village

Although in the summer months, sometimes it seems as if Tossa de Mar, an international small town has become, so the true Tossa yet of his Catalan domestic shrines marked and a stranger, is not ready at least a few words in Catalan to use language will always occur as a stranger and have no real contact with the residents.

are the most important festivals of the place not easily discovered during the summer, but are spread throughout the year. And even many Catalan pastries and dishes remain the non-resident concealed, since so many pastries are baked at only a very few days of the year.

Tossa de Mar, in spite of its small size, a place of major significance. The attachment of the old town is the only preserved in the Catalan coast, divers found at the Mar Menuda a fascinating Exit point and the Babel of the way Tossa is also called, had the first modern museum in Catalonia. Here today held the largest international fast painting competition and on every street is a work of a Catalan artist.

about all these hidden treasures in the course of time I will tell here in the hope that one or two curious to do something to Tossa.