SITUATION OF BANYOLES

The city of Banyoles is the asset of the region of the Pla de l'Estany, in the center of the regions from Girona. Attractive main his, the Pond, has converted it into a dynamic, open city to the others and entrepreneurial. Banyoles and its region are a place of great ecological, cultural and historical interest, and also an inexhaustible fountain of resources touristic, sport and of leisure.

Banyoles is placed in the north-east of the Catalan Countries and is the asset of the region of the Plan of the Lake. It is halfway from the Costa Brava and from the Pirineus, forming a triangle of populations and places of great historical and landscape interest. It remains at 120 km. of Barcelona and at 49 km of the border with France.

OAR AND SPORT IN BANYOLES

Banyoles is a sport city for excellence, recognized with the brand of Touristic Sport Destination on the part of Tourism of the Generalitat de Catalunya.  

The city is distinguished for a long sport tradition and for some facilities and a natural environment optimal for the practice of sport. The oar is sport that the city has made famous and s’hi practices from 1886.

Banyoles was subhis olympic in the Olympic Games of Barcelona 92 and the headquarters of the Championship of the World of Oar was in 2004. The International Federation of Oar (FISA) qualified Banyoles like the best field of grooves of the world.

To more, calm water and the soft climate of the training zone at world-wide level make the Lake be an important center. Among many others, the the University of Cambridge team, for example, he trains every year (normally in January) in the inhabitant of Banyoles facilities.

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