Travel Guide to San Lorenzo or Sant Llorenç de Balàfia

Sant Llorenç de Balàfia, or San Lorenzo, is a rural village with hardly any town centre, in the municipality of Sant Joan. Surrounded by San Miguel, Santa Gertrudis, San Carlos and Santa Eulalia, Sant Llorenç had to grow with its back to the sea. That is why fields were cleared for farming, fields that have been worked since time immemorial and have held out against the pressure of tourism.

Because the houses stood so far apart, the church of Sant Llorenç played a special role. It was commissioned in the time of Bishop Abad y La Sierra, at the end of the 18th century, to bring together the people scattered across the countryside.