Girona

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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2006. 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?

IGME records 34 wells and boreholes in Girona. Half of the 33 with a depth found water at 11–134 m.

Ground: 38% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 33% practically impermeable; 12% porous aquifer, high productivity; 9.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.6% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 3 ha, in 2025.
• 12% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 15% in the 500-year one.
• 5.3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 47% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 47% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.08 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 593 mm a year (1971–2000), about 495 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.5 °C, about 33 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 22 a year, about 7 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sarrià de Ter · Celrà · Quart · Juià · Salt · Vilablareix · Fornells de la Selva · Sant Julià de Ramis