Lloret de Mar (cat. Lloret de Mar) is a Catalan city of the Selva region, in the Selva Marítima, south of the Costa Brava. Judicially, it is part of Blanes and its electoral demarcation is Santa Coloma de Farners. A pioneer of European tourism in the 1950s, Lloret has become one of the most important tourist destinations. It is a meeting point of cultures and traditions, but maintains its cultural identity. Apart from traditions that remain unchanged with the passage of time, Lloret de Mar, as a cosmopolitan and leading city that it is, incorporated new ones.
Together with Blanes and Tossa de Mar, they form a territorial and tourist unit that has more than 80,000 residents and welcomes over 1,500,000 tourists a year.
Toponymy
The Romans called Lauretum the place we know today as Lloret de Mar because of the number of laurels that must have grown there at that time. From this period there are the remains of Roman sepulcher dating back to the 2nd century AD and the Roman brickyard of Fenals.
Lloret is mentioned for the first time in a written text in 966 as Loredo, in a donation of the valley of Tossa to the monastery of Ripoll, where in the description of borders it is said that to the west, it borders with LOREDO, sive in rivo de Canellas. It was part of the County of Girona and changed hands several times until it joined the barony of Llagostera.
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