Travel Guide Empurany

This rural village sees its population double in summer when tourists come to admire the flowered accesses where the names of the streets have been engraved on wooden plaques, and to enjoy the freshness of its lake. And even if the Roman, Greek, Gallo-Roman origins are ancient history, the villagers have kept the spirit of the market place where crafts were legion. There were many forges for 2,000 inhabitants, for the manufacture of traditional tools, including sickles. On the site of a chapel dating back to Charlemagne in 805, a church was built after several architectural periods and extensions