Spain Guide
Catalunya
Arrival
Girona's airport, 13km south of the city, has daily scheduled service by budget airlines from across Europe. The arrivals hall has several car rental booths, as well as a ticket booth for the hourly bus service to both Girona train/bus stations (4.30am–12.30am; €2.05) and even more frequently to Barcelona's Estació del Nord (8.30am–12.15am; €12); a taxi into Girona costs around €22. Sarfa buses serve most resorts along the Costa Brava.
The train station is off Crta Barcelona in the modern, western part of the city; the bus station – also serving international arrivals – is behind the same building on Plaça d'Espanya. Both are a fifteen-minute walk southwest from the Barri Vell. You're more likely to use a taxi – the handiest ranks are at the train station, Plaça Catalunya and the old-town end of Pont de Pedra – than the city bus lines.
Girona is sandwiched by the toll autopista A7 (west of town) and the free N-II highway (east). If you drive in, you'll find parking generally nightmarish: the Barri Vell especially is a controlled-access zone for residents only, so you'll be fined or towed unless your lodgings provide parking. Use the fee car park at Plaça Catalunya, or compete for free spaces in the lot by Pont Pedret or up on Passeig Fora Muralla, just outside the medieval walls near the university campus (difficult during term time).