Penedes

Please note that there is a house opposite the chapel and we can park in their driveway on Sundays. This is sometimes easier than trying to get into the car park at the chapel.

St Ampeli, Penedes
Directions to Penedes from the Palafrugel area.
Take the C31/C65 from Palafrugel in the Palamos direction. Stay on this road, pass Calonge, Platja d’Aro and Santa Cristina.  Pass Can Tia Restaurant on the right. At the junction for Barcelona or Girona take the right fork marked C65, AP7 Nord, Girona and LLagostera. After approximately 400 metres take the Right-hand slip road (GIV 6612) alongside the Can Penedes Restaurant towards Romanya de Selva. Continue along this road for 3 Kilometres until you see the sign for “Penedes”. Slow down well before the sign as the church is 20 metres past the sign on the right, adjacent to a farm.

Directions to Panedes from the bus and train stations in Girona.
Take the Carretera Barcelona (NII) towards Barcelona. After approximately 2.5 kms go straight over the first roundabout - garden centre on the right. Stay in the left hand lane and almost immediately you come to the next roundabout.  At this roundabout (the junction with the C65) take the 3rd exit towards Sant Feliu de Guixols. Take the ramp up to the C65 and merge left into the traffic. Drive past Quart, through the traffic lights at Llambilles and then straight over the next roundabout. Go straight over two more roundabouts staying on the C65 for about 16 kms. towards Sant Feliu de Guixols. Ignore the next junction to the right signposted Llagostera and Tossa de Mar, but take the following junction on the right towards Llagostera and Romanya de la Selva. At the roundabout take the 4th ( GIV 6612) to Romanya de la Selva. The road runs parallel to the C65 for a short distance, then turns left towards the hills at the Can Penedes Restaurant. Stay on the GIV 6612 for about 3kms.  The Church at Penedes is on the right.  (Park on the verge but watch out for the shallow ditch.)

Directions to Penedes from Calonge
Take the road from Calonge to Cabanyes and Romanya GIV 6612. Pass Cabanyes and Romanya. The Church of St. Ampelli is in the hamlet of Penedes 3 kms. from the end of the road. It is on the left attached to a farm.  (If you reach the Can Penedes Restaurant you have gone too far.