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Campdorà, Girona — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Campdorà gathers round the church of Sant Jaume and a castle first recorded in 1148, a village of Girona held between the Ter and the Gavarres.
About Campdorà
Where to stay in Campdorà
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Campdorà keeps no lodging strip of its own, so rooms sit downhill at Pont Major or inside Girona, a short run along the C-66. Pick the Pont Major side if you want the Ter and the Gavarres slopes in walking reach instead of a city street. Girona holds the tables.
Down on the flat, the Farinera Vinyals marks the Pla de Campdorà, beside the Barcelona to Portbou railway. Up on the saddle, Sant Jaume and the Castell de Campdorà stand a few steps apart at the old centre.
About Campdorà
What are the main landmarks in Campdorà?
Sant Jaume de Campdorà holds the old core, a twelfth-century Romanesque church rebuilt in the eighteenth with a neoclassical porch whose door carries the date 1760. The Rectoria de Campdorà backs onto its apse, and the Castell de Campdorà stands a short way off, a medieval manor with a later crenellated wing and a round tower at its south-east corner. Down at the Pla de Campdorà, the Farinera Vinyals keeps its exposed-brick pediments.
The C-66 runs below the village. Further out, the Balneari de Campdorà keeps a brick fountain whose spring ran carbonic and ferruginous.
What is the history of Campdorà?
Campdorà was a castle term in its own right long before it belonged to Girona, and its castle first enters the record in 1148. The Sitjar family of Girona held the term in sub-fief from 1148 to 1166, Maria Sitjar sold the castle to Joan Capmany in 1493, and it was later left to the Hospital de Santa Caterina. In 1846 the term went to Celrà.
A stone tablet at the Font Picant was cut for the Celrà town council in 1861. Campdorà went to Girona in 1974, after a segregation decree of 1968 was fought through the courts.
Where is Campdorà?
Campdorà stands on the right bank of the Ter, in the meander between Sarrià de Ter and Sant Julià de Ramis, with its lower quarter running into Pont Major.
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Updated September 2026