Costa Brava-Cadaqués: 2 day Objetive: to visit the Pemo-Carbonifeous granites of the Costa Brava and the Variscan terrains of Cap de Creus. Itinerary: Barcelona-S'Agarò- Aiguablava-Roses-Cadaqués (1 night here)-Barcelona Day 1: Stop 1: Visit of the S'Agaro zone, comprised between Cala de Sa Conca and Sant Pol beach. The access is along the path that goes parallel to the coast, at about 10-15 m above sea level, and that allow to visit different outcrops of granodiotes, lamprophires, dykes, and hydrothermaly altered rocks

Photo 1: View of the granitic area of S'Agaró Stop 2. Aiguablava. Lamprophires dykes swarm intruding leucocratic granites. Lunch at the Parador d'Aiguablava. Stop 3. Gulf of Roses. This is the most northeastern bay on the Catalan coast The bay is 16 kilometres wide and is formed by the valley of the Fluvià river but also contains the estuaries of the Manol and the Muga rivers. These rivers drain the southern flanks of the eastern end of the Pyrenees and Alberes. The area is often affected by the severe Tramuntana wind. The bay was originally settled by the Greeks, who created a trading post at Empúries which became a Roman town before being abandoned after Viking and Muslim pirate raids along the coast. The area was the domain of the Count of Empúries.

Stop 4. Ampuries. Ampuries was a Greek and Roman city located in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Girona region of the Alt Empordà. It was founded in 575 a. C. by Phocis settlers as a commercial enclave in the western Mediterranean. Visit to the different Greek and Roman Ruins. .

Photo 2: Lamprophires dykes intruding leucocratic granites at Aiguablava.

Photo 3: Aerial view of the Gulf of Roses

Overnight at hotel Carlemany (https://www.hotelcarlemanygirona.com/) in Girona. Dinner at the same hotel or at a local restaurant.

Photo 4: Detail of the Ampuries Greek and Roman ruins Day 2: Stop 5. half-day walk along the paths of the Cap de Creus Natural Park and visit to different outcrops of Variscan rocks where examples of shear zones affecting metamorphic rocks, granits and pegmatites, as well as relationships between metamorphism-plutonism-deformation are exceptionally well exposed

Photo 5. Detail of the highly deformed pegmatites and schists of Cap de Creus Lunch at a restraurant in Cadaques (to be determined) Return to Barcelona