San Pedro Pescador (Catalan Sant Pere Pescador ) is a Spanish municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà in the province of Girona, Catalonia .
Located in the center of the Gulf of Roses , the town is on the banks of the river Fluvia has a beach and 7 km of fine sand near which there is an area that is part of the Natural Park of the Empordà Marshes . In the old town some sections of the wall of the old fortifications and houses built between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries are preserved.
As belonging to the monastery of San Pedro de Rhodes and was documented in 974 known with the name of Villa Militiano within Ampurias County .
During the Middle Ages the story revolves around his castle of San Pedro . It lived during Queen Juana Enríquez Catalan civil war between the Government forces and Juan II.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the draining of swamps favored by the deviationcourse of the river Fluvia .
Its economy is divided between the harvest of fruits, especially apples , tourism and fishing. In San Pedro Pescador works Empordà Fruit Cooperative .
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