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Girona is a city of millenarian history. The Roman Gerunda was based on the old ibera city and through her it passed the Augusta route, main line of the Roman Hispania that connected with Tarraco (today Tarragona), Saguntum (Sagunto), Saetabis (Xátiva) and Carthago Nova (Cartagena) and that seguia until connecting with several localities of Andalusia, present Cordova, Seville and Cadiz. Territory including in Hispanic Marca, created by Luis "the Pious one", and who understood the present regions of the Low Ampurdán, the Gironés, the Forest and sector NE. of the Maresme. Reconquered east territory by the francs (785), Luis the Pious one gave to Rostany the government of the county. In the 817 the county was united to the Septimania. According to Concilio de Troyes (878), the county passed to Vifredo the Velloso and was definitively built-in to the condal house of Barcelona.

The county of Girona maintained its independent condition, with vizcondes own, until century XIII, in spite of its incorporation to Barcelona. The first twenty-five families judias were based in the city in year 888 and created an important nucleo in the Call (District) Judio. During the War of Independence she underwent the siege of the Napoleonic troops heróicamente being defended by his inhabitants and being Governor of the Seat General Alvarez de Castro. The most significant monument is the gothic cathedral of a single ship that is greater of Spain with his claustro Romanesque and its tower-bell tower of century XII, In the museum of the Cathedral conserves the carpet of ' the Creación', embroidering in century XI Other outstanding buildings are the churches of Sant Pere de Galligans, Sant Feliu and Sant Nicolau, the Arab Arc of Trasfiguera, baths, the house of Gold Fontana, the city council and the Episcopal Palace. Also the medieval helmet and the district (Call) Jewish and the Diocesano Museum are interesting.