Wild Coast

(Local Name: Costa Brava) The most northerly stretch of the Spanish Mediterranean coast, the Costa Brava ("Wild Coast"), is one of the most popular holiday areas in Spain, favored particularly by visitors from northern Europe because of its accessibility. Its reputation has suffered in recent years from the enormous development of hotels and tourist facilities which has ruined much of the coast and made the Costa Brava the very epitome of mass tourism. Away from the main tourist centers, however, the Costa Brava still offers visitors magnificent scenery, great works of art and good bathing. The much indented coast is rocky for most of the way, and on the cliff-fringed promontories cannot usually reached by car