* The author is part of the community of readers of La Vanguardia
In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can admire the emblematic wall of Tossa de Mar on a summer night in July, with the reflections generated by the Mediterranean Sea and the calm they transmit.
The wall was declared a National Historic-Artistic Monument in 1931. It is located in the Vila Vella of this municipality on the Costa Brava, which is the only example of a fortified medieval town that still exists on the Catalan coast.
It is located at the foot of the northwest slope of the promontory facing Cape Tossa, within a walled enclosure that has a perimeter of about 300 meters built between the 12th and 14th centuries, as a defense against piracy. The castle was built in 1387 by Abbot Ramón Dezcatlar.
Tossa de Mar stands to the east of the coastal sector of La Selva, northeast of Barcelona and southeast of Girona. It is broken by the Litoral mountain range, which reaches the Mediterranean, thus drawing the rocky landscape of cliffs and small coves, characteristic of the Costa Brava.
The beaches that surround the town to the north and south are magnificent. A few minutes walk from the urban center is the Mar Menuda, with its famous rocks and the cove of Sabanyera de ses dones.
The heritage of the municipality includes Roman traces, modernist memories and airs of the artistic bohemia of the avant-garde and also of famous film actors who have passed through here.
