Castelló d'Empúries

Castelló d’Empúries was the capital of the county of Empúries, set inland from the Gulf of Roses amid the marshes of the Empordà. The counts made it their seat after the decline of ancient Empúries. Its great Gothic church of Santa Maria expresses the ambitions of a comital town whose rulers sought an episcopal see of their own, though it remained under the bishop of Girona.