Horta de Sant Joan ¤ Itineraries

Picasso's Places in Horta

Activity for free. On foot and in particular vehicle

The places of Horta that relate this village with Picasso can visit and see doing a round for the village and his surroundings following the map of the itinerary places Picassians.

They are many the visitors that arrive attracted by the international projection that the artist has given us with his two stays.

Picasso reaches Horta for the first time to the 1898 of Manuel's hand Pallarés, a young artist son of the village, to heal of the scarlet fever. After his first excursion to the peak of Barbaric saint, project the adventure to withdraw to paint to the Ports during a month. His stay to Horta lasts 9 months, but the deep links that joined him with this land and these people do that you go back in a second occasion to the 1909 looks for of the inspiration and accompanied by his promise Fernande Olivier. That second stay corresponds in its entirety immediately of his big adventure cubist and the works that painted are disseminated by the places diverse month of the world. Picasso does quotation of the Village over there where goes and remains represented in many of his works.

Information
Center Picasso in Horta
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