For some reason the Spanish architects who created miracles
elsewhere decided to ignore most of the Mediterranean coast and sadly it shows.
Since most of the coastal towns are full of huge ugly concrete buildings, we
decided to check what the Catalonian hillside offers instead and found some
pretty little towns with amazing stories.
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| Horta de San Joan |
One of them is called Horta de San Joan, a medieval town
sitting on top of a hill. The place itself is not spectacular but its story definitely
is:
Once upon a time when Picasso was just Pablo, he spent a few
years in the little town, painting with a local friend. Later when he became
famous he returned back with his French girlfriend, Fernande, with whom he
wasn’t married. The townswomen, deciding that the situation was unacceptable to
their morals, reacted by throwing stones at Fernande, at one point forcing
Picasso to defend her with his gun. Not surprisingly the couple left the town the
next day, never to return.
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| A bit late for that , no ? |
When Picasso died as one of the most famous painters in the
world, the town decided that it’s not such a bad idea to open a Picasso museum
to attract tourists, so they asked the Picasso family for a donation of some of
his paintings. The family saw no reason to award the town with a fortune and
refused. So they had to buy lithographs
of the paintings that Picasso painted while he was living in the town when he
started his Cubist period.These are what they put in their museum, which we didn’t
believe worth a visit.
We are married, but you never know!
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