l’Empordà. CATALONIA

Despite living in Figueres for three years I didn’t take many pictures, but the charme of the Empordà comarque is undeniable. Photos taken while living there in early 90s and also visiting the place countless times in the recent years.

1. Figueres

2. Albera Natural Reserve

3. Bassegoda's peak

4. Gorges d'Albanya

5. Costa Brava Landscape with the Medes islands on the Background

6. Early morning on the Refuge de Puigneulos

7. San Llorenç de la Muga

8.  Cloister from Villabertran 

3 Refuges Crossing, Eastern Pyrenees. CATALONIA / FRANCE

Five day wonderfully scenic trek in the Ripollès and Conflent the heart of the eastern Pyrenees. Photos from Summer 2015
1. From Queralbs to Coma de Vaca Shelter, through Freser gorges 

2. From Coma de Vaca Shelter to Ulldeter Shelter, through Marrana pass 

3. From Ulldeter Shelter to Ras de Carança Shelter, through Bacivers valley

4. From Ras de Carança Shelter to Coma de Vaca Shelter, through Carança valley

Engineers trail, CATALONIA

From Coma de Vaca Refuge to the Nuria Sactuary, through a beautiful landscape in the heart of the pyrenées. Photos fromp Summer 2015

Dalí Theatre-Museum, Figueres. CATALONIA

The Dalí Theatre and Museum (Catalan: Teatre-Museu Dalí), is a museum of the artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain. Dali is buried there in a crypt below the stage.

The heart of the museum is the building that housed the town's theater when Dalí was a child, where one of the first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown. The old theater was burned during the Spanish Civil War and remained in a state of ruin for decades. In 1960, Dalí and the mayor of Figueres decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous son.

The museum displays the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dalí, the core of which was from the artist's personal collection.

A glass geodesic dome cupola crowns the stage of the old theater, and Dalí himself is buried in a crypt below the stage floor. The space formerly occupied by the audience has been transformed into a courtyard open to the sky,

Photos from 2016

Hospital de Sant Pau, BARCELONA. CATALONIA

The Hospital of the Holy Cross and Saint Paul is a complex built between 1901 and 1930, designed by the Catalan modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Together with Palau de la Música Catalana, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was a fully functioning hospital until June 2009, it is currently undergoing restoration for use as a museum and cultural center.

Photos from April 2015, after the recent restoration of the main central modernist buildings.

L'Albera Trail. CATALONIA

The Albera Massif (Catalan: Serra de l'Albera) (French: Massif des Albères) is a mountain range in the north of Catalonia, between France and Spain. It is the main easternmost prolongation of the Pyrenees. Its highest peak is the Puig Neulós, with an elevation of 1,256 metres. Our three-day trail in Summer 2015 started in Requesens Castle and ended up in Portbou, on the mediterranean shore. Scenic viewpoints, fascinating misty woods, downtrodden mountain refuges… What's not to love?