Throughout the summer, in the Girona regions a lot of festivals offer concerts and shows of all kinds every week and, often, it is difficult to choose among so much cultural offer. Within the field of classical music, one of the unmissable events is the Torroella de Montgrí Festival, at the foot of the massif that separates the Empordà, which this year celebrates its 45th edition. Focusing mainly on early and baroque music, but also featuring contemporary offerings and repertoires from all styles and periods, from the 14th century to the present day, the Bajo Empordà festival offers a very interesting, unique, and diverse program of up to 32 concerts, which runs from August 3 to 22. To help you choose and sort through all the offerings at the Torroella festival, prominent figures from our country's cultural world recommend to the ARA the most attractive and essential concerts, designed for all tastes and interests.

The Empordà Museum, located at the foot of the Rambla de Figueres, has just reopened its doors after four years of renovations that have completely transformed its image. In this new phase, the museum presents the pieces from its permanent collection with a groundbreaking idea: they are no longer displayed in the traditional way, grouped by criteria of chronological order, authorship, style, or genre. Instead, the new museography proposes a truly surprising and exciting artistic journey, displaying diverse works dating back more than 4,500 years in a single room. Like the painting Saint Narcissus (1962), by Salvador Dalí, exhibited together with the Saint Atilano (1690), by Vicente Berdusán, in a space where there is also a possible Demeter Greek statue from Empúries from the 3rd or 4th century BC, a surrealist pantocrator (1929) by Joan Massanet and a bronze bull (1975) by Emília Xargay.