Llofriu

Llofriu (name of Germanic origin) is an aggregate of the town of Palafrugell (Baix Empordà), in Catalonia (Spain) It has 294 inhabitants (2005). The parish church of St. Fruitós, as mentioned in a testament to the year 1121, was dependent on the priory of Santa Anna of Barcelona until the seizure (first third of the nineteenth century). The houses, sheltered near the church, forming an interesting collection of folk architecture (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries). The layout of streets and the door of the church reminds us of the medieval village. The economy is based primarily on agriculture and livestock, although the majority of its people work today in Palafrugell, the service sector. In addition to the core of houses and farms, there is the cemetery where is buried the writer Josep Pla, who lived many years in his farmhouse in Llofriu.