Camping Vell Empordà

Three national parks, you say? Oh yes – Camping Vell Empordà is in a highly smart setting between three of the Spain's best: mountainous Parque Natural de L'Albera, seasidey Cap de Creus, and the marshland of the Aiguamolls de l'Empordà. The fishing village of Cadaqués, in the middle of the Cap de Creus peninsula and just under 18km from the site, was a favoured inspirational spot of one S Dalí as well as one P Picasso; have a look at the Salvador Dalí House-Museum if you want to feel artistically inclined. Dalí's home town of Figueres is also a short drive away. Just over 40km away and across the border into France is the city of Perpignan, the capital of the Pyrénées-Orientales department and home of the thirteenth-century Palace of the Kings of Majorca. This is an artistically inclined area too: Señor Dalí once hailed its railway station waiting room as 'the centre of the Universe', claiming that this is where he got his best ideas.