The largest resort town on the north of the Costa Brava is the
busy, crowded port of Roses, founded by the ancient Greeks but
sporting few remnants today of its long history besides a crumbling
citadel and sections of city wall. Instead the harbour town, where
once a handful of British sailors repulsed an attack by Napoleon,
is now a mass of typical high-rise resort developments, rising in
tiers from a busy harbour and a few miles of man-made sandy beach,
abuzz with holidaymakers indulging in all sorts of watersports.
There is an aquatic park, go-karts, numerous take-away and
fast-food restaurants, scuba centres, cruises from the harbour and
all the other amenities required for the mass tourism market.
Nature does still entertain the many visitors with a famously
beautiful sunset, however, thanks to the west-facing aspect of the
town, which catches the light display when the sun dips over the
Gulf of Roses.
