Peralada tourist office

The Peralada tourist office is at the Centre de Turisme Cultural Sant Domènec, on plaça Peixateria, 6, in the old town. It is at once an information office, the starting point of the municipal guided visits and the gateway to the Romanesque cloister of Sant Domènec and the Museu de la Vila. It answers on 972 53 88 40, by WhatsApp on 635 18 49 88 and at [email protected].

Opening hours

Visit Peralada, the municipal website, does not publish the office's opening hours on its pages. Call or write beforehand, especially out of summer, and if you want to see the cloister ask at that point how it is visited.

The cloister and the Museu de la Vila

The Sant Domènec cloister is Romanesque, from the 12th century, and according to the town council it is all that remains of an Augustinian convent founded in the second half of the 11th century. Its columns and capitals have carved biblical and secular scenes, and it was restored between 2020 and 2021. It shares a building with the Museu de la Vila, and both are run from the office.

Guided visits

The visits organised by the town council set off from here. The most regular is the guided visit to medieval Peralada: the second Saturday of each month at 11:00, in Catalan, about 90 minutes, €6 per person and free for under-10s. Visit Peralada also lists the tour of the artistic jewels of medieval Peralada, the visit to the Romanesque paintings of Santa Eulàlia, on the fourth Saturday of the month, and a literary route on Ramon Muntaner, in Catalan only. All require prior booking and a minimum number of participants. For groups of at least 10 people, visits outside the programme are organised.

The historic castle park, with its stork colony, is always visited with a guide; ask at the office how to book it.

Getting there and parking

From Figueres, 7 km away, you arrive by car on the Llançà – Portbou road or by Ampurdán Bus, which always stops at Peralada. If you come by train, you will have to get off at one of the Figueres stations. Visit Peralada does not publish a specific car park next to the office on its website.

What to combine

In the same village is the castle, with the Perelada winery and the Castle Museum and, in summer, the Festival Castell de Peralada. For eating in the old town, Cal Sagristà opened in 1986 and Sotamuralla occupies a tower of the wall. Further afield, the Requesens circular walk, in the Albera, and the Albera tortoise centre, in Garriguella, complete the day.