L’Estartit (Catalan pronunciation: [lestaɾˈtit]; Spanish: Estartit) is a small town and seaside resort on the Costa Brava, part of the municipality of Torroella de Montgrí in the Baix Empordà county, Girona province, autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. The town is situated between the foothills of the Montgrí Massif and the Mediterranean Sea.
Geography:
L'Estartit stretches North-South from Cala Montgó, at the southern tip of the Bay of Roses (Badía de Roses) to the Ter River estuary in the Bay of Pals (Badía de Pals).
East-West it extends three kilometers inland from the shoreline and includes the hills of Rocamaura and Torre Moratxa, and to the north of these the old farmhouse of Torre Ponça. The Montgrí Massif (Massís del Montgrí) plunges into the sea forming about 9 kilometers of high, rocky, and cut coast, in which we find several coves, including Cala Calella, Golfet del Falaguer, Cala Pedrosa and Cala Ferriola, as well as different caves, including the tunnel Roca Foradada and the Tres Coves, closest to Cala Montgó.
The Medes Islands are an elevation within the sea of the Montgrí Massif range. From the GI-645 road, you can also see the lower peaks called Tossal Gros, Tossal Mitjà, Tossal Petit, and Puig de la Reina.
To the east of Torre Ponça opens the Alt de la Pedrosa, a plateau where the abandoned LORAN base is located, a former
