Jorge Franganillo · CC BY 3.0Coastal town
Altafulla is a municipality in the comarca of the Tarragonès in Catalonia, Spain. It has a population of 5,870 (register office, 2025).
The town of Altafulla has a beautifully intact old quarter crowned by the Castle of Altafulla, and an old fishing quarter dating back to the 18th century along the beach, called "Baixamar" or "Les Botigues de Mar".
An additional medieval castle on a small promontory overlooking the sea, the Castle of the Marquises of Tamarit (not open to the public) is often thought as part of Altafulla, but it is actually located in the neighbor municipality of Tarragona. Beyond the castle is one of the last remaining forests stretching along the sea in Catalonia, part of which is a small nature preserve (under the Tamarit-Punta de la Móra Special Environmental and Landscape Protection Plan).
Altafulla is also home to the remains of the Roman villa of Els Munts, which is included in a larger UNESCO World Heritage Site The Gaià River "empties" into the sea here, its last stretch being a small nature preserve and haven for songbirds (Reserva Natural de Fauna Salvatge de la Desembocadura del Gaià - Gaià River Estuary Wildlife Preserve), though due to damming upriver, it carries very little water at this last section, forming a tiny salt marsh separated from the sea by a bar of sand. This wildlife preserve is run by L'Hort de la Sínia, an ecological agriculture, learning and activities center.
Altafulla has one of the highest median household incomes in the province of Tarragona.
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La Villa Romana de los Moros está ubicada en el municipio de Altafulla, a unos 10 kilómetros de Tarragona, sobre una pequeña colina cerca de la playa. La villa de los Munts muestra una zona residencial romana lujosa del siglo II en Tarraco.
Yacimiento arqueológicoBien de interés cultural
Casco antiguo de estilo gótica.
Casco antiguoBien de interés cultural
Castillo de estilo del Renacimiento.
CastilloBien de interés cultural
Muralla urbana de estilo gótica.
Muralla urbanaBien de interés cultural
Torre de telegrafía óptica de estilo popular.
Torre de telegrafía ópticaBien de interés cultural
Monumento de estilo popular.
MonumentoBien Cultural de Interés Local
Casa de estilo barroco.
CasaBien Cultural de Interés Local
CasaBien Cultural de Interés Local
Casa consistorial de estilo popular.
Casa consistorialBien Cultural de Interés Local
CasaBien Cultural de Interés Local
Casa de estilo popular.
CasaBien Cultural de Interés Local
Casa de estilo barroco.
CasaBien Cultural de Interés Local
Edificio de estilo del Renacimiento, del siglo XVI.
EdificioBien Cultural de Interés Local
Casa de estilo barroco.
CasaBien Cultural de Interés Local
Iglesia de estilo barroca.
IglesiaBien Cultural de Interés Local
Iglesia de estilo barroca.
IglesiaBien Cultural de Interés Local
EdificioBien cultural parte del patrimonio cultural de Cataluña
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4 plans to experience Altafulla on the move, not just passing through.
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Places and plans from OpenStreetMap (ODbL): what is mapped within the municipal boundary, by name. If something is missing, it can be added there and will appear here in the next update.
What there really is in the village and around it, with distances. If an activity isn't on this list, we haven't found it nearby.
