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The Landscape of the Geniuses is a tourist attraction that lets you discover the essence of the landscape that inspired the works and influenced the personalities of Antoni Gaudí, Joan Miró, Pau Casals and Pablo Picasso on the Costa Daurada and in the Terres de l’Ebre region
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  • “Originality consists of returning to one’s origins”

    Antoni Gaudí was born in Reus in 1852. He was baptized in the priory church of Sant Pere and lived for sixteen years in the family home, which housed the workshop that was key to Gaudí’s learning, especially insofar as his sense of perception and his understanding of space. Upon completing high school in Reus he went to Barcelona to study architecture. As a renowned architect he kept in regular contact with friends and colleagues in Reus.

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Hazelnuts in his pockets

Antoni Gaudí was an austere man in all respects. Towards the end of his life he lived almost like a hermit and at the table practised vegetarian habits. A great observer of nature, which he used as a source of inspiration in all regards, he consumed simple, natural products that today we could call “minimally processed”. Historians who have studied his everyday life explain that he always used to carry hazelnuts in his pockets, the dried fruit par excellence of the Reus and Tarragona area, which Gaudí knew inside-out since his childhood.

  • “Originality consists of returning to one’s origins”

    Antoni Gaudí was born in Reus in 1852. He was baptized in the priory church of Sant Pere and lived for sixteen years in the family home, which housed the workshop that was key to Gaudí’s learning, especially insofar as his sense of perception and his understanding of space. Upon completing high school in Reus he went to Barcelona to study architecture. As a renowned architect he kept in regular contact with friends and colleagues in Reus.

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A porron among farmers

Joan Miró had a transcendental connection with the land around Mont-roig del Camp. Apart from the fact that he always carried a carob pod in his suitcase when travelling, the artist often identified with the land at its purest and most essential. Joan Miró said he was happier “donning a sweater and sharing a porron with farmers from Mont-roig than being in Paris among duchesses in large palaces”. As a rural property with a longstanding agricultural history, today Mas Miró is farmed organically and has fruit trees and a wide variety of garden vegetables.

  • “Originality consists of returning to one’s origins”

    Antoni Gaudí was born in Reus in 1852. He was baptized in the priory church of Sant Pere and lived for sixteen years in the family home, which housed the workshop that was key to Gaudí’s learning, especially insofar as his sense of perception and his understanding of space. Upon completing high school in Reus he went to Barcelona to study architecture. As a renowned architect he kept in regular contact with friends and colleagues in Reus.

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The simplicity of thyme soup

Pau Casals adored thyme soup, a simple dish, a sort of quintessence of the Mediterranean, perfectly matching his personality. A champion of the humble working classes and workers, this modest soup, ‘poor man’s food’, perfectly sums up the thinking of the maestro. Simple cuisine and a simple life that allowed him, in El Vendrell, to enjoy views over the sea and the Penedès vineyards, which he so missed during his forced exile in Prada de Conflent and in Puerto Rico.

  • “Originality consists of returning to one’s origins”

    Antoni Gaudí was born in Reus in 1852. He was baptized in the priory church of Sant Pere and lived for sixteen years in the family home, which housed the workshop that was key to Gaudí’s learning, especially insofar as his sense of perception and his understanding of space. Upon completing high school in Reus he went to Barcelona to study architecture. As a renowned architect he kept in regular contact with friends and colleagues in Reus.

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Curative chicken soup

Regarding two visits by Picasso to Horta de Sant Joan (1898 and 1909) there are several snippets of news concerning the relationship between the artist and cuisine. In fact, during his first stay, Picasso envisaged recovering from his health problems by eating a comforting chicken soup, and there are even details of the diet he followed while painting the Els Ports mountain range. With regard to his trip in 1909, there is a record of the lamb and saffron soup that was served at hostal del Trompet, where he stayed with his companion, Fernande Olivier.

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