Sitges, Rusiñol territory
The imprint of these characters is felt in the towns they visited, and following in their footsteps means making a tour of history and culture that leads us to know in greater depth the space and the character. Of natural landscapes to haunted houses, we offer five literary routes to explore the Demarcation of Barcelona in a different way.
1. VERDAGUER ROUTE IN FOLGUEROLES
The poet Jacint Verdaguer He spent his childhood and youth in this town in the Osona region, today considered a Outdoor museum . From the hand of the poems and descriptions of him, we can visit with a guide or on our own the house where he was born, the family house in the square that today bears his name, the found fountain or the cork oak forest while we remember the verses of What is poetry?
two. RUSIÑOL ROUTE IN SITGES
One of the emblematic places of Catalan modernism shines even more if you visit it through the Santiago Rusiñol route. The flirtatious Cau Ferrat Museum It is the essential of any visit, but the painter, writer, journalist and collector attracted with his personality some of the most important figures of the hectic cultural life of his time, turning Sitges into one of the unexpected cultural centers of his time. From Casino Prado to Platja de Sant Sebastià, the Rusiñol route commemorates that magical moment.
3. ESPRIU ROUTE IN ARENYS DE MAR
Arenys de Mar It was the summer town of Salvador Espriu and one of the places most closely linked to his life, so much so that he baptized the myth of paradise lost in his work as "Sinera" (Arenys backwards). Tours of its streets necessarily end in its overwhelming cemetery, where Espriu's tomb only competes in spectacularity with the views.
Four. MARTÍ I POL ROUTE IN RODA DE TER
Roda de Ter is deeply linked to the figure of the prose writer, translator and poet Miquel Marti i Pol . The houses in which he lived, the Eliseu theater, the school, the church... and no visit should end without going to the library, which houses his complete works.
5. ANGLADA ROUTE IN VIC
The historic city of Vic gave birth to the writer Maria Angels Anglada Although she felt especially close to the Empordà and to Greece, she maintained her relationship with her birthplace, making it the setting for several of her works and poems. From the historic Plaza Mayor we visit emblematic places such as the market, the old seminary or the house of the Ivy in the heat of fragments of The king's agent either I didn't say Laura.
Sitges, cultural epicenter of Catalonia