Sant Martí d’Empúries is a hamlet dependent on L'Escala and preserved as a mediaeval town. It was once a peninsula and received its first inhabitants in the 9 th century BC. Three centuries later it established commercial relations with theEmpúries county seat. Much of its mediaeval wall has been preserved. Sant Martí’s Church was built in 1538 above a preRomanesque church, dating from 926. In contrast to the town’s mediaeval character, you can also find the Forest House, built in the modernist style and the present head office of the Iberia Graeca Foundation. Just across, there stand the old castle ruins, which inspired Victor Mora , author of the comic stories Capitán Trueno (Captain Thunder), to make it his hero's home. Passeig d'Empúries , which connectsEmpúries beaches , passing right next to the Empúries Greco-Roman site and admire the ancient Greek breakwater