Torroella de Montgrí

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 2002. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 53 wells and boreholes in Torroella de Montgrí. Half of the 49 with a depth found water at 5–10 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 34% porous aquifer, high productivity; 32% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 12% low permeability, local groundwater only; 8.2% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 4 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 79 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• 20% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 27% in the 500-year one.
• 4.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 62% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 68% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 431 mm a year (1971–2000), about 357 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.5 °C, about 30.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 3 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Ullà · Gualta · Bellcaire d'Empordà · Fontanilles · Pals · L'Escala