From 1908, when the author, poet and politician Ferran Agulló coined the time period Costa Brava for the primary time in his each day column in La Veu de Catalunya, an actual fever arose to find the virgin heritage of this shoreline.
From 1908, when the author, poet and politician Ferran Agulló coined the time period CostaBrava for the primary time in his each day column in La Veu de Catalunya, an actual fever arose to find the virgin heritage of this shoreline.
In the course of the first third of the twentieth century, initiatives reminiscent of public baths appeared, amongst which there have been these in Sant Elm, in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, which had a physician's workplace, steam showers or Turkish baths and which in the summertime they organized live shows, sardanas, dances or movie screenings.
Different maritime leisure practices have been additionally born, reminiscent of Viatges Blaus, an initiative promoted by the entrepreneur established in Barcelona Jaume Marill between 1929 and 1936, which consisted of chartering giant boats, with choirs and choirs that enlivened the journey from Barcelona to find the virgin panorama of Sant Feliu, Tossa, Palamós or Roses. "It was a cultural exercise: the ship left Barcelona at six within the morning and returned at midnight. It was very profitable", explains Xavier Roca, technician on the Historical past Museum of Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
The photographer Ricard Mur Gargallo, born within the Zaragoza city of Gallur in 1875, settled in Sant Feliu de Guíxols between 1906 and 1907, the place he created his personal photographic studio. His images have been a witness to that first tourism and to a panorama that's not recoverable. Between the years 1910 and 1930 he portrayed the Costa Brava from Blanes to Cadaqués and centered a lot of his work on Sant Feliu de Guíxols and its speedy environment. The director of the Museum of Historical past, Sílvia Alemany, explains that he was one of many few photographers established in Catalonia who revealed postcards with pictures of the vacation spot and likewise collected features of each day life and trades reminiscent of fishing or linked to the cork business, with a big weight within the municipality and which ended up using greater than 3,000 folks. Postcards that as we speak can nonetheless be bought on-line on the worth of gold: 25 euros per copy.
An exhibition on the Museum of Historical past of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, with images rescued from the archive, means that you can uncover that nearly virgin territory earlier than mass tourism that Mur witnessed along with his digicam. Uncommon pictures such because the highway that results in Tossa de Mar, on the peak of Canyet, one of many few coves that belong to Santa Cristina d'Aro, freed from buildings, with the only exception of a farmhouse. A panorama that the mayor of Tossa, Ramon Gascons, factors out is "comparatively unchanged", excluding the urbanization of Cala Salions, constructed between the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, which he describes as "an city wreck".
The ocean entrance of Palamós, when it nonetheless lived with its again to tourism, or the seaside of Platja d'Aro, and not using a hint of the tall buildings that broken the primary line of each municipalities throughout the actual property growth, is extra stunning. "Due to figures like Mur, we've got had an x-ray of what the Costa Brava was like," explains Alemany.
Mur additionally portrayed the society of the time training their hobbies, reminiscent of a soccer match; having fun with the touring opera Marina in 1910, which was not carried out in a theater however in entrance of the ocean, or considering the commotion attributable to the invention of a 14-meter-long whale on the seaside. “He was an excellent photojournalist; wherever there was information, he was there along with his digicam", remarks Roca.
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