Property for sale in Santa Cristina d'Aro

The municipality covers almost all of the upper Vall d'Aro, between the Gavarres to the north and the Cadiretes hills to the south, and it reaches the sea at a handful of small coves. About 6,000 people live here, spread between the village and a long list of residential urbanisations.

Buyers come here for space and quiet: larger plots, houses among cork oaks and pines, and the golf, while the beaches and shops of Platja d'Aro and Sant Feliu de Guíxols are close by. We sell in the valley regularly and look after houses here, where gardens and pools are often the main job.

The market is mostly detached villas in the urbanisations, many around the golf course and on the slopes of the valley, plus some old farmhouses that suit buyers looking for a renovation project.

Santa Cristina was the main parish of the whole Vall d'Aro in the Middle Ages, and in 1041 an agreement over the custody of the castle of Aro was signed in its church. The present municipality was formed in 1858, when Santa Cristina, Bell-lloc, Solius and Romanyà separated from Castell d'Aro.

From 1892 until the end of the 1960s, a narrow-gauge railway from Sant Feliu to Girona ran through the valley and stopped in the village. Its route is now a greenway, and the old station is the tourist office. Since the 1980s the population has grown strongly, mostly through people choosing to live in the valley's residential areas.