Taking responsibility for a specific section of the coastal path, inspecting it regularly, and reporting any illegal closures or deterioration that impedes access. This is the mission that SOS Costa Brava wants to entrust to the future "godparents" of the coastal paths, a new role with which the environmental organization intends to strengthen the monitoring of these historic routes along the sea and guarantee the public's right to walk freely and without obstacles.

Paths are nature. Traces in the territory that connect cardinal points, overcoming geographical features. They are, at the same time, culture. For an immense poetic spirit, like Walt Whitman's, "free of all limits and all imaginary lines," each path becomes a great gulp of space to breathe. "On foot and with a light heart I go along the road. / Healthy, free, the world before me. / The long dirt road will lead me wherever I will."

Legend has it that Blanes sold Santa Cristina to the people of Lloret de Mar for a plate of lentils. Whether true or false, it's hard to believe today that, next to one of the most crowded spots on the Costa Brava, the hotel hub of Lloret de Mar, there is a paradise of pristine beaches thanks to the steadfast preservation of the same inhabitants, who for decades have expanded their land purchases around the area. Santa Cristina area to prevent urbanization. Beneath the chapel filled with votive offerings from ships loaded with young Indians who set sail for the Americas, Santa Cristina beach is an oasis surpassed only by the tranquility of the surrounding coves.

Lloret Beach - Baños Cove