Something Special: Costa Brava Vacations

Georges Desrues, Sebastian Späth, 02.09.2025

In the 1960s, Germans, Brits, and Dutch travelers discovered the roughly 200-kilometer-long wild coastline as a vacation spot: the first trip without parents, the first taste of real freedom, sangria by the bucket—and suddenly the Costa Brava was a party hotspot. But the region has so much more to offer.

Fans of the Gaulish hero Asterix know that the age of tourism also began in Spain in the 1960s: in the 1969 comic book "Asterix in Spain", he and his obese companion Obelix meet columns of Gauls and Goths heading south on their ox-drawn caravans for their vacations. The authors take aim at the French and German tourists who had discovered the country south of the Pyrenees as a vacation destination in those years and arrived in droves every summer.

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Something Special: Costa Brava Vacations