Girona began the matchday six points away from the promotion spots and ends it the same way after drawing in Tenerife (1-1). The Gironins, who would have moved to within four points in the event of a victory, did not take advantage of the stumbles by Eibar and Castellón. They continue to add points and make progress after a night that will open a new debate in goal with the injury of Paulo Gazzaniga, who could not play the second half.

Tenerife brings back beautiful memories for Girona, which is where they celebrated their second promotion to the First Division in 2022. Now, however, with the new reality following the drop to the Second Division, what this Monday's duel (9 PM, Esport3) causes them are headaches. The cuts following the relegation are fully affecting the squad's travel, which requires three days to go and return. A logistics issue that they already suffered in Cádiz and that has the squad annoyed, as with the loss of their category they have said goodbye to the comfort of charters and are traveling on regular flights.

Following the warm reception of last year's inaugural edition, the Brots de l'Empordà Festival returns: a truly interesting and original proposal that places top-tier artists alongside local producers and restaurateurs in the same program, all tied together with a very conscious and vindicatory discourse about the land and culture. The initiative, organized by Joventuts Musicals de Torroella de Montgrí, was born as a way to artistically channel the cry of the Revolta Pagesa protests. This year's edition is held in a dozen towns in the Baix Empordà, featuring concerts, dance, performance, poetry, and visual arts in churches, squares, fields, and forests, from October 22nd to 25th. The festival brings together names like Tarta Relena, Toti Soler, Alosa, Raül Refree, and Momi Maiga, centered around a theme focused on the preservation, recovery, and reinterpretation of ancestral heritage.

Sarfa is the red, white, and orange bus company that travels through the Baix Empordà and connects the Costa Brava with Barcelona. Its centenary brand, founded in 1921 and based in Begur, is absolutely integrated into the daily lives of many residents of the Girona regions. Since 2009, it has been part of the Sabadell-based Moventis group, and this 2026, with 240 employees and a fleet of 130 vehicles, it expects to reach 3.5 million passengers and exceed 11.5 million kilometers traveled. In addition to regular interurban transport, it manages more than fifty school routes, international services to France with BlaBlaCar, and corporate transport. At the head of the company is Christian Busquets, born in Platja d'Aro, who assumed the management on January 1st of this year after joining in 2023 as operations director.

This is the story of three friends who cannot spend much time away from the water. Three men with their own jobs. One is an architect, another works at a hospital, and the third one works at a bank. And all three were great athletes. Dani Serra participated in the swimming events at the Seoul '88 Olympic Games, Sergi Roure did so at the 1992 Barcelona Games, and Àlex Amorós was an international water polo player. Good friends, all three kept swimming. And they liked to do it in open water when they spent the weekend on the Costa Brava.

Following the Vermilion Coast road that winds along the sea between Portbou and Cerbère, upon arriving at this town, the southernmost in the French state, one is surprised by the silhouette of a huge cement ship anchored to the cliff, on a triangular ledge wedged between the railway line and the seafront.

The University of Girona (UdG) is the best state university in social and environmental commitment, according to the 2026 CYD Sustainable Universities ranking. The Girona institution thus moves from the second position it held in 2025 to head this classification for the first time, prepared by the Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo (CYD). The second position in the ranking is now held by the University of Vic, and the top 5 is completed by the University of La Rioja, in third place; the University of León, in fourth, and the Catholic University of Valencia, in fifth.

Martí Gironell returns to bookstores with Malaveïna, a new historical novel published by Columna that aims very high. The author from La Garrotxa leaves behind the adventures of the monks and choirboys of Montserrat from his last book to now immerse himself in the history of the gardens of the majestic Peralada castle, in the Empordà, which counts Antoni and Tomàs de Rocabertí had built in 1877. The novel, maintaining the thread of nature as a common denominator, connects the counts' gardens with the legendary character of the Malaveïna, a healer from the fields of Garriguella, a symbol of atavistic wisdom, who used flowers and plants to cure the sick of the region.

For ten years now, at the beginning of autumn, Cadaqués has become a great exhibition stage for the best photographers in the world. This is possible thanks to the InCadaqués International Photography Festival, which organizes a host of exhibitions throughout galleries, gardens, beaches, and streets of this idyllic town of white houses at the foot of Cap de Creus. This year, in its tenth edition, from October 8 to 25, it will offer 25 exhibitions and workshops by 40 authors from 20 countries.

Forty years is no small feat. That is why Joan Roca appeared before the audience at the San Sebastián Gastronomika congress to explain how El Celler de Can Roca has celebrated and will celebrate these four decades of the Girona restaurant's life. One of the cornerstones will be an extraordinary (and long, despite being small bites) 40-dish menu to pay homage to the restaurant's 40 years.

Life takes many turns. Larry Williams, 66, a successful builder from Vermont, is the new master of the Montjoi de Baix farmhouse and this entire small valley located on the southern slope of the Cap de Creus Natural Park, within the municipality of Roses. A rural paradise right by the sea. A place occupied by men and women since time immemorial, rich in flora and fauna and rich, too, in stories more legendary than documented, which now, however, are becoming real. It is, moreover, the stretch of coast where Ferran Adrià performed the culinary miracle of El Bulli.

Girona, still punished by the FIFA virus, lived up to the billing of a night against Mallorca that ended with a share of the points (0-0). After a few weeks of victories accompanied by unusual effectiveness but an improvable image, it was against the team that was a priori the most complicated that Quique Álvarez's men earned the respect of the crowd and starred in the best minutes of the season; but the attack, which had not failed on other days, misfired.

The worst part of the severe storm this Sunday was borne by the Maresme, the Vallès Oriental and the south of the Costa Brava. The heavy storms that discharged with force in Barcelona and the metropolitan area on Saturday moved up along the Girona coastline from south to north, with records exceeding 150 liters in many parts of the Empordà, and have left two fatalities and a young person missing in Pineda de Mar. Several towns spent the morning with flooded streets, road closures and damage caused by overflowing rivers and streams that cross urbanized areas before flowing into the sea.

If the new generations of Girona know perfectly well who the Mosca Sisa is, the official club mascot since 2020, and the slightly older waves knew Carmany, born from a drawing in the Tots som Girona campaign of 2011, you really have to be a lifelong fan to remember Geroni, who emerged in the late eighties and early nineties, with the team fighting to be promoted to the Second Division. Now it is fighting to return to the First Division and hosts Mallorca this Sunday at Montilivi (9 p.m., LaLiga TV Hypermotion). "It was me who got inside there and suffered the heat like a wretch," explains Martí Palahí (Girona, 1964), one of the founders of the Penya Gironina in 1982.

The Ludwig Band is a well of creativity. All its members are truly talented, they have a lot of artistic interests and always have some project on the go. Whether it is with the group, where everyone has their say, or also as a solo act. This is the case of Lluc (or Lluki, depending on his stage name) Valverde, saxophonist and keyboardist of the band, born in Espolla (Alt Empordà), who has been releasing some songs on his own for some time and has now just premiered his first album, titled A la catalana (Primavera Labels). There are ten songs, most of them Catalan rumba, filled with anecdotes, desires, and daily adventures in Barcelona, halfway between irony, bitterness, and merrymaking. The album, conceived above all to be performed live, with a very extravagant staging, was previewed at the Mercat de Música Viva de Vic and on November 12th it will arrive at the Sala Upload Barcelona.

Autumn is one of the most attractive times to discover the Garrotxa. The colors of the Fageda d'en Jordà, which Joan Maragall immortalized in one of his poems, the paths of the volcanic zone, charming villages like Santa Pau or Besalú, and postcard landscapes like those of the Vall d'en Bas or the Vall de Bianya make the region an especially suitable destination for a getaway. And, after walking, one of the best ways to end the day is to sit down at the table.

With the Catalan Book Week finished with record figures, both in terms of the number of visitors and the volume of sales, this weekend the baton of literary fairs is taken up by the already established Liberisliber in Besalú, with a "full capacity" in the central squares of Sant Pere and the Cloister of this tourist town in La Garrotxa, where stalls from a total of 69 independent publishing labels will be set up, and with a dense program of activities that seek to promote a taste for reading. To contribute its "grain of sand" to achieving this goal, and "given the worrying situation revealed by the latest reports on reading", Liberisliber has set out to work beyond the Besalú fair and has announced the launch, for the end of October, of the digital resource Lektur.cat: a recipe book in which, with the help of illustrators such as Dani Torrent or Anna Font, various and original strategies are proposed to encourage children and adults to read and to guide them in choosing their reading material.

I interview chef Francesc Rovira (Gombrèn, 1964) on the day that his Fonda Xesc hosts the conference organized by Field Lab by Radicea, of which Fonda Xesc is the partner and host. Radicea is a platform that works to ensure that cooking begins again from the land: it documents the producers, chefs, and landscapes of a territory and puts them to work together. The conference was attended by Thieu Besselink, who directs the Akademie van Plaats, a Dutch institute and network for regenerative development. And also Ar van Rossum, who founded The Brothel, a bone broth workshop: he slowly cooks grass-fed beef bones and free-range chicken bones of local origin. Francesc has acted as host with meals paired with Recaredo, which has been a sponsor along with RGN architects, and the initiative is directed by Clara Boada. With Francesc, we talk about the dishes he cooks, the inn, and also about a novelty: starting September 29, he will participate, for the second year, in the initiative promoted by chef Ada Parellada, the Gastrorecup. Fonda Xesc has held a Michelin star since 2009.

Portbou has the last train station in Catalonia before crossing the administrative border with France through the Belitres tunnel. The station and the entire complex of tracks occupy nearly a third of the surface area of this small municipality on the Costa Brava, linked since the 19th century to the country's railway history. Inside the Portbou facilities there is a workshop, the only one of Renfe in the Girona region, where maintenance and repair tasks for locomotives and freight trains are carried out. Over time, however, this base has been losing weight and personnel, until, finally, Renfe has decided to stop its activity.