Fortia has a grocery store, a butcher shop, two restaurants, a school, a playground, a public swimming pool, a soccer field, etc.
Fortià is part of the Alt Empordà region, province of Gerona. The municipal term has an extension of 10.79 km2 and 8m. of altitude. Located in the Empordà plain, at the confluence of the Fluviá and Muga rivers. The limits of the municipal term are to the north with Vila-sacra, to the east with Castelló d'Empúries, to the south with Riumors and to the west with El Far d'Empordà, Siurana and Vilamalla. It has the Fortianell kernel added. Fortiá was a possession of the neighboring monastery of San Pedro de Roda, during the Middle Ages until the 18th century, the Casa del Delme, where the monks of Rodes collected their taxes, is still preserved behind the parish church.