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Contents 4 5 How to get there? 7 The triathlon training destination! 8 Costa Brava triathlon camps 10 Swim Bike Run cities 20 Open Water Swimming 22 Costa Brava & Pyrenees cycling backroads

24 Service Companies 26 Incoming travel agencies 28 Accommodation 30 About us 3 4

Costa Brava

There are few places in the world home to Specialized Costa Brava accommodation so many scenic treasures, charming villages, and service companies provide tailored and cultural attractions as this corner of the services to maximize the benefits of training Mediterranean. The 200 km of coastline that programs. Get ready for your challenges stretch from to are 200 km and improve your sports performance at a of unforgettable sensations, where Nature, top destination. Book your triathlon training Culture and Gastronomy play a crucial role. In camp on the Costa Brava! the Costa Brava - Girona Pyrenees we have the formula for improving sports performance: training well and recovering better. We have state-of-the-art sports facilities and a natural environment that offers the ideal terrain and climate conditions for training and outdoor sports. For maximum performance, you need an optimum recovery. Train well, recover better

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How to get there?

FRANCE / FRANÇA

GIRONA PYRENEES / PIRINEU DE GIRONA

FIGUERES

Port Roses COSTA GIRONA BRAVA

Girona - Costa Brava Airport

Lloret Port de Mar Palamós

Barcelona

Girona

Barcelona

Mediterranean Sea / Mar Mediterrani 6 7

The triathlon training destination! The perfect combination of facilities, weather and terrain makes us one of the preferred destinations for training triathletes. Swimming in the open sea or in the calm waters of the lake of Banyoles and altitude training in the County are an added value and an undeniable differentiating factor.

It’s a perfect place to train because of the lake, the swimming pool, great quite roads for riding, and the beautiful trails around the lake

Ryan Sissons Team New Zealand Triathlon. 8 COSTA BRAVA TRIATHLON CAMPS

THERE ARE FC BARCELONA HIGH SPEED MEDITERRANEAN DIET AND MESSI GIRONA SOCCER IN GIRONA LOCAL, HEALTHY FOOD PITCHES RAILWAY STATIONS AND 25 JUST AN HOUR AWAY EQUIPPED FOR PROFESSIONAL AND 3 hr 24 min 38 min 5 hr 44 min Go from the MOUNTAINS to the AMATEUR TEAM TRAINING SESSIONS MEDITERRANEAN MICFOOTBALL 1 h GIRONA BARCELONA SEA I n a single AIRPORT AIRPORT training session IS ONE OF THE A LENGTHY BIGGEST GRASSROOTS SOCCER SOCCER OUTDOOR NATURAL 300 DAYS OF CHAMPIONSHIPS IN TRADITION PARKS SUN PER YEAR SPORTS 8 A SOCCER TEAM FRIENDLY MATCHES HOTELS PLAYING IN THE TOP OVER 3 WITH THEIR 200 THE MILD CLIMATE 300,000 NATIONAL LEAGUE FEDERATED IN SPRING, AUTUMN HOTEL BEDS OWN SOCCER CLUBS & AND WINTER Infografia FACILITIES GIRONA FC FOOTBALLERS IS IDEAL FOR 200 KM OF TRAINING COASTLINE ACCOMMODATION WITH CATERING for players’ Recovery THE BEST OUTDOORS FANTASTIC AND SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS TRAINING CAMPS BEACHES INCOMING AGENCIES CONVENTION INSTALLATIONS FOR with detailed local knowledge and a 16 CENTRES FACILITIES FOR TRAINING WELL, broad organizational accommodation and facilities for experience TRAINING WELL, EXCELLENT VALUE accommodation and facilities for RECOVERING FOR MONEY RECOVERING EVEN BETTER EVEN BETTER 9 COSTA BRAVA TRIATHLON CAMPS

THERE ARE FC BARCELONA HIGH SPEED MEDITERRANEAN DIET AND MESSI GIRONA SOCCER IN GIRONA LOCAL, HEALTHY FOOD PITCHES RAILWAY STATIONS AND FIGUERES 25 JUST AN HOUR AWAY EQUIPPED FOR PROFESSIONAL AND 3 hr 24 min 38 min 5 hr 44 min Go from the MOUNTAINS to the AMATEUR TEAM TRAINING SESSIONS MEDITERRANEAN MICFOOTBALL 1 h GIRONA BARCELONA SEA I n a single AIRPORT AIRPORT training session IS ONE OF THE A LENGTHY BIGGEST GRASSROOTS SOCCER SOCCER OUTDOOR NATURAL 300 DAYS OF CHAMPIONSHIPS IN EUROPE TRADITION PARKS SUN PER YEAR SPORTS 8 A SOCCER TEAM FRIENDLY MATCHES HOTELS PLAYING IN THE TOP OVER 3 WITH THEIR 200 THE MILD CLIMATE 300,000 NATIONAL LEAGUE FEDERATED IN SPRING, AUTUMN HOTEL BEDS OWN SOCCER CLUBS & AND WINTER FACILITIES GIRONA FC FOOTBALLERS IS IDEAL FOR 200 KM OF TRAINING COASTLINE ACCOMMODATION WITH CATERING for players’ Recovery THE BEST OUTDOORS FANTASTIC AND SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS TRAINING CAMPS BEACHES INCOMING AGENCIES CONVENTION INSTALLATIONS FOR with detailed local knowledge and a 16 CENTRES FACILITIES FOR TRAINING WELL, broad organizational accommodation and facilities for experience TRAINING WELL, EXCELLENT VALUE accommodation and facilities for RECOVERING FOR MONEY RECOVERING EVEN BETTER EVEN BETTER 10 Swim Bike Run cities

Banyoles

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Swimming pool lane, surrounded by nature trails for running and amazing roads, of all kind of heights and little traffic, for cycling.

In Banyoles, the triathlon has also found an ideal space for training and organising competitions. In fact, it is probably the most suitable place in for practising this discipline.

This is explained by the fact that the triathlon combines three sports which are widely developed in Banyoles: swimming, which has a long tradition and excellent facilities.

Since 1985, Banyoles has hosted the Triathlon of Catalonia with Olympic distance. It has also organised a B-distance Triathlon, a Duathlon, a people’s Triathlon and other competitions which prove the quality of the Sports Destination. 11

Banyoles Lake is also an ideal training area 2 pools for swimming. The lake now has a swimming Indoor pool 25 x 16m 8 lanes heated training lane in the lake which goes from Club Outdoor pool 25 x 12m 6 lanes heated Natació Banyoles to the lakeside Tourist Office, with a length of 500 metres.

For road cycling, the roads are well adapted Rocacorba is one of the most challenging and have moderate traffic. The gradients vary climbs of the area. An 880-metres elevation and you can choose from routes that are more and 13.8 kilometres separate you from the pronounced in the direction of la Garrotxa and peak. You climb 540 metres in six kilometres the Pyrenees, or the flatter ones in the direction during the second part of the climb, alternating of l’Empordà and the Costa Brava. very steep slopes of between 12 and 15%.

Running can be done around the lake and through woodland of a technical level.

In the surroundings of Banyoles, there are amazing roads with practically no traffic, with a great variety of circuits, with greater and lesser gradients, amazing ports like Rocacorba, unique roads like Mieres and , the chance to get close to the sea

Marcel Zamora Triathlete. Winner of 6 Embrunman and 5 Ironman Nice 12

Girona

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The charm of Girona itself and the surrounding countryside, its sports installations and its human size, all help to make it a perfect sports tourism destination. If, besides all this, we consider the excellent range of modern hotels, it is easy to understand why so many professional athletes and teams regularly choose Girona as their training base.

The city has also been approved by the Catalan Tourist Board as a Sports Tourism Destination, in recognition of its wide variety of first-rate resources and services, sports installations, accessible accommodation and specialised services to cater for both professional sportspeople and tourists wanting to do some sport. Girona was awarded this seal of approval because of its present and potential development of cycling and running in particular, but it also includes swimming, athletics, tennis and triathlon. 13

GEiEG Olimpic Pool C. Esport, 16 · 17007 Girona +34 620 462 855 · + 34 972 201 047 [email protected] · www.geieg.cat

GEiEG is a Girona organization catering for over Technical specifications twenty different sports disciplines and cultural, social and leisure activities. Size 50 x 21 meters Depth 2.1 Our installations can host pre-season training camps and sessions held by teams from other Number of lanes 8 clubs, associations and organizations, and this Heating yes has proved to be a highly successful experience Chlorination Salt water chlorination for all concerned. system system We have 265,000 m2 of sports installations split into three sports centres in the city of Girona. Facility's other services At our Sant Ponç complex, there are 2 covered 25 m pool · Tennis courts · Paddle tennis courts · swimming pools, a 50 m Olympic-size pool and Squash courts · Weights room and cardiovascular another pool measuring 25 x 12 m, with 6 lanes exercise gym · Aerobics and keep-fit rooms · and a depth of 1.9 m. Restaurant · Sauna

Road cycling lovers will enjoy the as Cannondale- Garmin, GreenEdge, Sky, large network of secondary roads with Rabobank and BMC, among others, all use unforgettable views and points of interest, Girona city as a base camp for their training due to Girona's strategic location between the programmes. Pyrenees and the Costa Brava. The Massif, spanning nearly 350 Famous international professional cyclists km², is a magnificent area for mountain bike such as Rory Sutherland, Marcel Kittel, Ryder lovers to explore. Pedalling along tracks, Hesjedal, Robert Gesink, Dan Martin, Sharon rough trails, and woodland paths... is a unique Laws, Lucy Martin, Emilia Fahlin, Georgia way to experience the exceptional natural Bronzini, all stay in Girona for long periods surroundings in the area. while training for the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de and the world championships. On the other hand, cycling teams such 14 15

GEiEG Track and Field Stadium Technical specifications [email protected] Surface type Dual-layer synthetic +34 620 462 855 · +34 972 201 047 No. of lanes 6 x 400 m - 8 x 110 m www.geieg.cat Stadium size 400 m Separate field for No throwing events Lighting Yes Track and 1 pole vaulting area, 1 field event high jump area, 2 long jump tracks, 2 triple jump tracks, 1 weight throwing field, 2 javelin fields, 1 discus field, 1 hurdles track

Running paths and softrails

Girona city is an ideal running destination, sportsmen and women Toti and Tina Bes with a wide range of road and mountain (mountain runners), Pau Busquets and David routes of various distances and difficulty levels Roselló (triathletes), and renowned German that invite runners to enjoy the city and its triathlete Jan Frodeno. natural surroundings. Routes running through the Gavarres Massif, along the Greenways, along the CityTrail... all for your delight! Some people who can testify to this are Girona's 16

Lloret de Mar

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Lloret de Mar is recognised as a multisport destination as it has a multidisciplinary, high- quality offer which is concentrated in a single sports complex in the centre of the town, surrounded by hotels and shops, just 800 metres from the beach.

Sport is an essential part of Lloret de Mar and the huge variety of sports available include triathlon, swimming, football, basketball, athletics, handball, roller skating hockey and cycling, to name just a few. 17

Piscina de Lloret Tel. +34 972 364 384 [email protected] • www.piscinalloret.cat

Lloret’s Olympic-size Swimming Pool can cater Technical specifications for practically all types of water sports, both competitive and leisure activities. These include: Size 50 x 21 meters Depth 1.9 • Swimming · Water polo · Synchronised Number of lanes 10 swimming · Free-diving · Aqua gym · Children’s swimming lessons · Therapeutic Heating Yes swimming · Swimming as part of other Chlorination Salt water chlorination system system disciplines: triathlon, pentathlon, surf lifesaving The swimming pool is 50 metres long and 25 Facility's other services metres wide, with a 9 m movable basin for The pool forms part of a state-of-the-art adapting the size to different requirements. The sports complex, which is totally accessible for bottom of the container can be raised to reduce people with reduced mobility, with a first aid the depth and one of the sides can be moved to room, 7 changing rooms, 4 group changing adapt the distance. rooms, a sound system, stands for up to 560 spectators, fitness and weights rooms, 3 Lloret Swimming Pool is part of the sports guided activities rooms, 1 functional training complex in Lloret de Mar, right in the centre of room and a cycling track. the town with a wide range of accommodation and leisure activities nearby, and just 800 metres from the beach.

Lloret Cycling www.lloretcycling.com

Road cycling routes in a place where cycling as they are beautiful, and where you can is more than just pedalling, recovering and stay in accommodation that caters specially pedalling. A place where you can feel the for cyclists. A place that’s popular with early morning breeze of the Mediterranean professional and amateur teams alike. This Sea, where you can challenge yourself to place is Lloret de Mar. complete mountain passes that are as tough 18 19

Lloret Track and Field Stadium Technical specifications [email protected] Surface type Sintètic bicapa +34 972 367 512 No. of lanes 6 x 400 m - 8 x 110 m http://www.lloret.cat/seccions/esports Stadium size 400 m Separate field for Yes The complex covers an area of approximately throwing events 17,600 m2 of athletics tracks with a dual-layer Lighting Yes synthetic surface, a completely refurbished Track and 3 men’s changing rooms, football pitch (100 x 62 m) with natural turf field event 1 women’s changing and other athletics facilities. It holds up to 560 room, 1 accessible changing room, 2 spectators and 300 athletes. coaches’ changing rooms, 1 weights room, 2 toilets, Bar, First aid room, Defibrillator, Floodlighting at night

Running paths and softrails

A well structured and well signposted network of running trails throughout the area. The trails display two types of signs so that they can be followed with ease: the official markings of the FEEC (Catalan Hiking Federation), which facilitate orientation along the trails, and an additional set of signs in the form of banner stands and information panels that provide information on the heritage elements that can be found along the running routes. 20

Open Water Swimming

Vies Braves Swimming, S.L. C.7 Garrotxa, 10 Pol. Ind. Casa nova – (Girona) · +34 972 484 342 [email protected] · www.viesbraves.com

Vies Braves, Sea Swimming Lanes A pioneer initiative Portbou (0,6 K) Colera (1 K) Garbet (1,2 K) in the world Llançà (0,6 K) Llançà - El Port de la (1,7 K) Vies Braves is a public network of marine Cadaqués (1 K) itineraries on the Costa Brava designed for sports, leisure and teaching activities. The itineraries run parallel to the coastal paths along the Costa Brava. Signs and buoys provide a safe way of enjoying and exploring the shoreline from the sea from May to October.

Pals (1,5 K) Girona Tamariu (1,2 K)

Calella - (1 K)

Platja d’Aro (2 K)

Sant Feliu de Guíxols (1,8 K) (0,35 K) Lloret - Fenals (1,3 K) Fenals - Sta. Cristina (1,2 K) 21 22

Costa Brava & Girona Pyrenees cycling backroads

In addition to being a sporting activity, by exuberant plant life that shelters the cycling is a statement of personal well- asphalt and that gives the environment being and quality of life and represents a permanent picturesque air. As your an indicator of excellence in the region. legs cover the kilometres, so the pace of Therefore, Girona can be considered, in its sensations increases: that of the fusion own right, a paradise for road cyclists. Its between the sea and the mountains, the extensive catalogue of secondary roads and intense solitude that a cyclist experiences mythical mountain passes enables you to when suffering, and the shared glory with travel the region from one end to another, the group when reaching with great long sections, winding stretches and a continuous up-and-down, surrounded 23 24

Service Companies

Bicigrino Canals Transport de Viatgers Bicycle rental, repair Passenger Transport shop and guided bike tours Av. Vila de Blanes, 60-62, 1-2 C. Aiguaviva, 4 17310 Lloret de Mar 17310 Lloret de Mar +34 972 366 575 +34 972 908 727 [email protected] [email protected] www.canalsbus.com lloretdemar.cycling-tours.es

Federal Café Girona Cafe C. Força, 9 17004 Girona [email protected] www.federalcafe.es 25 26

Incoming travel agencies They can organize transfers to the airport, agencies harness their local knowledge to recommend the best coffee stops, choose manage each of the aspects that will help the best routes for your training schedules. you reach the maximum benefit from your The professionals at our incoming travel training camp.

Agenda Sports Pg Generalitat 21· 17820 Banyoles [email protected] Tel. +34 972 580 639 www.agendasports.com

Agenda is a leading incoming sports agency the GB Adaptive Rowing Paralympic Team in , hosting swimming visitors all year or the Kazakhstan National Football Team, round from all over the world. amongst many others. Our sporting references include the Agenda works with a reliable network of Cambridge University Boat Club, the New providers, and deals either directly with the Zealand Triathlon National Team, the Russian teams or in close collaboration with top Kayak/Canoe Federation, the Australian European tour operators. Swimming team, CSKA Moscow, Water Polo,

Traveltec Av. Les Alegries, 14 · 17310 Lloret de Mar [email protected] Tel. +34 972 363 111 www.traveltec.info · www.sportcontact.org

Traveltec is an incoming agency specialized groups. Under the brand of Sport Contact in organizing holidays and taking the International we organize tournaments and reservation in all Spain for foreign travel sportive stages with international teams and agencies. We work with different type of Spanish clubs. groups: adults , seniors, students and sports 27

Evenia Travel Services C. Senyora de Rossell, 33 · 17310 Lloret de Mar [email protected] Tel. +34 972 364 781 www.evenia.travel

Evenia Travel Services si an incoming Tour Besides working with all of the Hotels in Operator with over 40 years of experience Spain we have also our own Hotel Chain: in the sports sector. We offer a whole range Evenia Hotels. of services for both individuals and groups. We create a relaxed, friendly atmosphere for As pioneers in sports tourism in the area sporting activities in which athletes from all we cover all sports in all Spain, Andorra over the world can interact with each other and south of France, arranging hotel and improve their skills. We also organise accommodation, transfers, training camps, training camps, courses and anything else stages and sports facilities (gyms, football that athletes ask us for. We offer numerous pitches, swimming pools, tennis, basketball bespoke package options for all types of and handball courts, athletics tracks…). athletes to suit their level and budget.

Viñolas Incoming Services Pl. Catalunya, 2 · 17480 Roses [email protected] Tel. +34 972 256 617 www.viatgesvinolas.com/incoming

Viatges Viñolas is a specialist incoming travel range of customised thematic proposals agency in the Girona region. We have our combined with leisure activities, cultural trips own transport company meaning that we and the exceptional gastronomy of our land. can offer direct, efficient logistics services We organise football, basketball, handball, and transfers We are pleased to offer a wide cycling and swimming sports stays. 28

Accommodation Specialized lodging for sports tourism, which will promote your recovery to ensure you can safely pick up your training the next day. All our facilities are prepared to accommodate groups and to attend and adapt to the special needs of athletes.

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Physio Room Late Check Out

Meeting Room Spa and Sauna

Equipment Storage Space Swimming Pool

Laundry Service Gym

Specially Adapted Cuisine Safe bicycle storage 29

Aparthotel Costa Encantada Guitart Hotels 3*/4*

Camí de Santa Cristina a les Alegries s/n Constanti Ribalaigua, 7 17310 · Lloret de Mar 17310 · Lloret de Mar +34 972 368 310 +34 972 347 000 [email protected] [email protected] www.marsolhotels.com www.guitarthotels.com

Hotel Samba 3* Hotel Surfmar 4*

C. Francesc Cambó, 10 C. Ramon Casas, 9 17310 · Lloret de Mar 17310 · Lloret de Mar +34 972 365 650 +34 972 365 362 [email protected] [email protected] www.sambahotels.com www.sambahotels.com

Hotel Carlemany 4* Hotel Ciutat de Girona 4*

Plaça Miquel Santaló, s/n C. Nord, 2 17001 · Girona 17001 · Girona [email protected] [email protected] +34 972 214 994 +34 972 483 038 www.hotelcarlemanygirona.com www.hotelciutatdegirona.com 30

Hotel Wine&Spa Golf 5* Hotel Vall de Bas 4*

Peralada Golf, Carrer Rocabertí, s/n, Veïnat Can Trona 17491 Peralada 17176 Joanetes +34 972 53 88 30 [email protected] www.hotelperalada.com +34 972 69 01 01 www.hotelvalldebas.cat

Torremirona Relais Hotel Golf Empordà Bike Resort - & Spa 4* Casa Rural 3*

Av Josep M. de Ventós, 2 Baixos Mas Petit 17744 17100 La Bisbal d'Empordà [email protected] [email protected] +34 972 566 700 +34 972 641 820 / +34 607 863 738 www.hoteltorremirona.com www.empordabikeresort.com 31

Camping Internacional Halo Cycling Project - de 4* La Bruguera de Púbol

C. de Sant Feliu a Palamós Km. 7,6 La Bruguera de Púbol 17251 Calonge 17120 Púbol () [email protected] [email protected] +34 972 651 233 +34 630 802 901 www.intercalonge.com http://halovelo.cc/

Càmping & Bungalow resort La Ballena Alegre

Sant Martí d'Empüries , s/n 17470 [email protected] +34 972 520 302 www.ballena-alegre.com 32

About us

Costa Brava Girona Tourist Board is a public The main philosophy of the Product Clubs entity whose mission is to promote tourism in created by the Costa Brava Girona Tourist Board the territory. The Board structures promotions, is based on cooperation and collaboration marketing and sales support in a segmented between its public and private members under manner through the Product Clubs. The Board a common brand with the aim, on the one hand, developed and manages the Sports Tourism of increasing the quality and competitiveness of Marketing Club. the product and the tourist destination, and, on the other, improving sales. The clubs are voluntary groups of business owners and public entities interested in Where are we? managing, promoting and marketing similar tourist products; therefore, they have common interests, needs and concerns.

Av. Sant Francesc, 29 - 3rd floor 17001 - GIRONA +34 972 208 401 · F. +34 972 221 570 [email protected] 33 Published by Patronat de Turisme Costa Brava Girona

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