Girona will receive €4.2 million from the Generalitat to improve rural and mountain paths, under a new aid programme announced by the Department of Agriculture on 9 June 2026. The funding is part of the 2026 to 2029 period and will support 62 improvement projects, with a total investment of €5.5 million in the area.
The Girona area accounts for about 15% of the total budget for this aid, making it the fourth most supported territory in Catalonia. The Alt Pirineu i Aran and Lleida regions each receive 23% of the funding, while Central Catalonia gets 18%. The programme is intended to improve access to inhabited rural areas, basic services and agricultural holdings, especially in sparsely populated zones.
The projects include widening, improving and adapting damaged rural paths. The work also covers maintenance and road safety measures, such as stabilising embankments, correcting routes and installing protective fences. In some cases, dirt paths leading to inhabited villages may be paved.
Òscar Ordeig, the Minister of Agriculture, said the grants are also meant to help combat rural depopulation. He said low-density and mountain areas often have a larger gap in road infrastructure for linking inhabited places and reaching basic services, and that better routes could help slow that trend.
The wider Catalonia programme totals nearly €28 million and will fund 419 projects. In the previous funding round, from 2023 to 2025, 884 kilometres of paths were improved in municipalities across the region. For more Catalonia-wide reporting, see our news coverage. For the official policy context, readers can also check the Department of Agriculture and the Generalitat of Catalonia.