Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Girona
Espolla
Girona · Catalonia · 44 km²
What rustic land in Espolla allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
Catalonia allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.
DL 1/2010, art. 47. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2004. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
No well or borehole is recorded in Espolla. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.
Ground: 96% practically impermeable.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- No mapped fire since 2016.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 72% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 72% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
- Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
- Basic seismic acceleration 0.08 g: new buildings need seismic design.
Living here
- 4G reaches 97% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 700 mm a year (1971–2000), about 590 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 26.7 °C, about 30.3 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 18 a year, about 7 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Sant Climent Sescebes · Rabós · Mollet de Peralada · La Jonquera
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.