Costa Brava Tour: Hidden Coves, Historical Towns

Embark on a small group tour of Costa Brava and Empuries, exploring hidden coves, crystal clear waters, and historical towns. Enjoy a boat ride with underwater views and learn about the region’s history at the Greek and Roman ruins.

Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Passeig de Gracia - Start this tour directly from your hotel or apartment in Barcelona city. We come to pick you up, so please be sure to let us know exactly where you are staying.

Enjoy an overview of Barcelona city on the way to Costa Brava, pass by Catalunya Square, Barcelona Cathedral, Passeig de Gracia and the Gaudi Houses, such as the Batllo and the Pedrera, and many other highlights.

What's Included
  • Small-group tour ensuring a personalized experience (maximum 8 people)
  • Guided by a professional for an informative journey
  • Comfortable travel with in-vehicle air conditioning
  • Convenient hotel or apartment pickup and drop-off in Barcelona city (between 8 and 9 am)
What's Not Included
  • Panoramic Ship tickets (approx 17€) To be paid to your guide on the day of the tour.
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Discover the Costa Brava with its hidden coves, crystal clear waters and whitewashed and historical towns.

Start the tour from your accommodation in Barcelona and head to the Costa Brava in a private vehicle in a small group of no more of 8 people in the company of an expert guide.

Dive into the breathtaking landscape of the Costa Brava with its rugged coast full of hidden coves, swim in its turquoise waters and visit the unspoiled Medes Islands with a panoramic boat with underwater vision.

While enjoying its impressive natural wonders get to know the history of this region from its beginnings at interesting ruins of the Greek and Roman Empuries next to the sea.

  • Children must be accompanied by an adult. Please let us know your children’s age to arrange the proper child seat.
  • The private tour option includes the Panoramic ship tickets
Location
Passeig de Gracia
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Paul
Jun 30, 2023
Costa Brava & Empuries tour - Vincent was fantastic. Very Knowledgeable, and extremely well spoken. He was very engaging with my teenage daughter and my 9 year old son. The ruins were fascinating, and Vincent took the time to chat one on one with each child and explain the history. Truly an exceptional experience for the family. And also our driver Joaquin, who was great, got us to our destinations and back in a timely manner. Big thank you to all!
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Dianar130
Jul 2, 2021
Amazing tour - This trip was purely fantastic!!!! I truly enjoyed the being able to see most of Costa brava, from Roman and Greek ruins, to a nice beach bathing time, to lunch in a quaint town in San Marti de alpinista and then a boat tour with under water views in l’estratit it was a wonderful experience Vicente y Joaquin we’re awesome guide and driver
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Pabloso29
May 17, 2021
Awesome - I really enjoyed Empuries and the whole trip. Had an amazing experience with Luis and Ruben. Highly recommended.
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Lbingham208
Jun 23, 2019
Great day trip with Reuben - We really enjoyed the day trip up the coast from Barcelona to Empuries to see the Greek and Roman ruins. Very interesting and a beautiful location. Lunch at Estartit, and a relaxing and fun boat ride to Medes Island. The caves and shoreline are beautiful. We loved it!
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Owl_h_23
Oct 30, 2019
Great day out with excellent guide but skip the boat ride - This was an excellent day out. Our guide Gaspar was very knowledgeable and informative. This includes hotel pickup, followed by about an hour and 30min drive out of Barcelona up to the Greek and Roman ruins at Empuries. That part of the tour was excellent and the car journey went by quickly as Gaspar our guide was sharing the history of the region etc. along the way. The ruins are right by lovely sandy beaches, and after the tour of the ruins we had a couple of hours to walk by the beach and go and get lunch. There is a quaint medieval village with lovely little tapas restaurants within walking distance of the ruins. Our guide then picked us up and drove us to where the boat ride is. The boat ride itself was very disappointing, which was really the only reason I did not give this 5 stars. The description here says the boat will stop and you will be able to jump in the water but that was not the case. I definitely give Gaspar our guide 5 stars as he was excellent. If you take this tour you can talk to the guide and ask to skip the boat trip part and spend more time near the ruins. We would have loved to have stayed there and spent some time swimming and at the beach. All in all this trip was definitely worth it but would have been even better if we skipped the boat ride bit.
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Mindy_v
Jun 24, 2019
Pretty good but some slight disappointments. - The ruins aren’t that exciting, compared to others I have seen but it is neat that there are ruins right next to a fun little beach to enjoy, it was great for the kids. The boat part of the tour could’ve been better, we went in the glass bottom boat and it was just kind of murky and you couldn’t see much. I thought we are going to be in a small boat To explore the caves along the coast more. It was still absolutely stunning to view the huge cliffs along the coast line. It was also advertised as a scenic drive and I thought we would be driving along the coast line and seeing lots of small towns, that was not so we just drove on a very boring highway all the way there so the time in the car wasn’t what I thought it would be. Our tour guide was nice and I still enjoyed it but I was really looking forward to that scenic drive, he said during the summer months the traffic is too bad to go that way, so they should not advertise it that way as most people come during the nice weather.
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F4385srbarbarab
Oct 29, 2022
No fun - Trip cancelled and we were told late the night prior to the trip but it was hard to find a replacement
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