The village of Peratallada is found just at the point of contact between the Gavarres hills and the lands of the plain of the Baix Empordà, to the left of the Grossa stream. The village, which was declared a historic-artistic monument is one of the most important centres in Catalonia, with regard to mediaeval architecture. With an extraordinary attractiveness and beauty, it maintains its feudal appearance, with narrow, windy streets, with numerous exits and entrances, in which the fortified castle with its homage tower and the palace (11th-14th century), the walls (10th-13th century) and the church of Sant Esteve (Romanesque from the early 13th century) are noteworthy.

There is also a large fosse that surrounds the village, excavated out of the living rock. The village sits on the rock which has been worked in diverse ways.

Peratallada Castle.
The village was documented as early as 1065. You can make out two clearly different sectors: the fortified centre and the palace. The fortified or defensive centre, in other words, the castle itself, are built on an enormous base of sandy rock. It has two homage towers.
The palace is made up of various bodies of buildings that occupy a great extension. These constructions surround a central courtyard.
Old Hospital
Old Prison
Torre de les Hores (Tower of the Hours)
Gateway of the Virgin

The Walls and the Fosse.
It is considered that Peratallada was one of the best fortified mediaeval villages. The defence system was made up of three walled sites. The main site contained the castle and the other two were large barbicans in the north and east. The three walls, with high stretches of wall and towers were protected by deep valleys carved out of the rock. This fosse, in some places where it is still visible today, was 7 or 8 metres deep.
Tower in Carrer de'n Bas. It has a square base, and the inner wall façade opens by means of a high pointed arch.

Town Square or Plaça de les Voltes.
This is a rectangular square that still preserves the mediaeval porches hidden from the exterior by the extension of houses on top of other porches that were added much later.

Castle Square. A beautiful area overlooked by the Palace façade.

Church. This Romanesque church, dedicated to Sant Esteve, the patron saint of the village, is outside the village, which is curious. It is said that this happened because in those days the count of the castle and the priest were not on very good terms.

From the early 13th century, 1202, according to the earliest documents that have been found about Sant Esteve de Peratallada. It is a remarkable Romanesque temple, with two naves. In the façade, there is a notable doorway, with a semicircular voussoir arch filled in with mouldings, a simple rose window and three corbels that possibly supported the beams of an old, disappeared, portico.