Catalunya is a beautiful province along the Mediterranean stretching
up into the inland mountains. Barcelona is in the center. We headed north towards
France from Barcelona to a small rural project called Can Sici outside of
Girona. Our wonderful host Marius showed us around the small village of Sant
Gregori and gave us lots of interesting history about Spain and specifically,
the region of Catalunya. Since hitting Barcelona, we began hearing and seeing
the Catalonian language everywhere and seeing the flag. Marius helped us
understand the strong history of the people, fierce independence and the push
to become it’s own state. Marius is trained as a biologist and working aspects
of permaculture onto the family land where he was living with his father Joan. Renting
his house on AirBnB is one way to help fund the work. From there we were able
to visit Figueres and the Teatro Museo de Dali and the beautiful coastal
village of Cadaques. The Teatro is really Dali’s crypt and a surreal in an “interesting”
way. We also loved the town of Girona with it’s beautiful cathedral, Jewish
quarter and wall walk. The area around Can Sici had some beautiful hiking and
biking trails and made a great respite after two weeks in large cities. Our
next leg is to the far south of Catalunya, the famous Delta l’Ebre, in search
of Flamingos.
Permaculture in Spain. Love it!
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