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| Malgrat de Mar, El Maresme |
Today, Claire Fontaine and The Grandma has travelled to Malgrat de Mar in El Maresme, Barcelona to listen to an incredible concert performanced by Maria del Mar Bonet and Borja Penalba in La Barretina, the local cultural centre.
Claire and The Grandma are big fans of these wonderful artists and they go to listen to them as times as they can. Some days ago, they went to the Pedrera in Barcelona and today in Malgrat de Mar, a nice town in the border between Barcelona and Girona where the Costa Brava starts and the sea has this incredible colour when the sun goes down on it.
Malgrat de Mar is a municipality in the comarca of the Maresme, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia. It is situated on the Costa Brava between Santa Susanna and Blanes. A local road runs from the town to the main N-II road, while the B-682 connects it with Blanes, Lloret de Mar and Tossa de Mar. It is served by a RENFE railway station on the R1 line between Barcelona and Maçanet-Massanes.
The town is located 4 meters above sea level. It has a coastal-Mediterranean climate, with smoothed temperatures almost over the whole year. The annual precipitation amount averaged over the last 18 years is about 650 mm.
Malgrat de Mar was first populated between the 13th and 14th centuries when it was known as Vilanova de Palafolls. However, it is known that the early inhabitants of Malgrat built their houses on the hill, named El Castell, that is located in the middle of the town.
Traditionally, Malgrat has been predominantly an agricultural town with considerable maritime commercial activity and, since the 19th Century, an important industrial centre. The tourist activity started in Malgrat de Mar around 1960. And since then it has become an important touristic destination.
More information: Ajuntament de Malgrat de Mar
-Church of St Nicolau. Built on 16th century and enlarged in the 18th century. Because of its size, it is known as the Cathedral of the Coast
-Peixateries velles (The old fish market). On the south side there were the meat market, while on the North side there were the fish market. On this later side, the stone-made waiter where the fish was sold is still conserved
-Town hall. A Modernist style building, which was inaugurated on 15 August 1913
-La Cooperativa (The Cooperative-The library). One of the oldest buildings in
Malgrat, built by the Clapers family in the 16th century. Later, it was
a blood hospital (18th century), the Casino Malgratenc, a cultural
society, on the 19th century, and a worker's cooperative on the 20th
century. Finally, it has become the library in the 21st century
-Ca l'Arnau. A Modernist style building, built on 1914. Recently, it had been renewed and it has become the Music School
-The Old Hospital. In
1441, Hug Descolomer founded this hospital to help the poor people.
Nowadays it has become a therapeutic center, and its chapel is used as
an exhibition gallery
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| Maria del Mar Bonet & Borja Penalba in La Barretina |
-El castell. It is a tower located on the top of the hill, just in the center of the town. It is surrounded by a park, and it can be accessed by the Hug Descolomer road, totally constituted by steps, next to the Passatge dels Arcs (Arches passage). The park offers a panoramical view of Malgrat and its surrounding areas
-Torre d'en Riera, also called Torre de la Vídua de Can Sala. It's a Modernist style house
-Parc de Can Campassol. It is a park located in Carrer de Mar street. It housed a colonial style house where Zenobia Camprubí was born, the wife of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Nobel Award of Literature, 1956. In the artificial lake of the park there is a sculpture of her
-La Pilona. It is an artificial island located in the middle of the sea. In the 1910s, it was used to load ships with mineral extracted from the mines of Can Palomeres, in the mountains located in the North of Malgrat. There was an aerial structure to transport the mineral from the mines towards the platform. Today is home to many shags
-Torre de l'Esquena. It is a house designed in 1895
-Plaça de Marià Cubí. It is a square inaugurated on 1956. The sculpture is dedicated to Marià Cubí i Soler, born in Malgrat on 1801, who became a frenologist and linguist
-Pla de Pineda. Located behind the hotels in Passeig Marítim. This space has conserved the agriculture in spite of the hard urbanistic pressure. It is very pleasant to take a walk around this place
-Pla de Grau. Located at the east of the town, between Malgrat and the Tordera river. It is the greatest agricultural space in Malgrat. Produce include the fesols del ganxet, a variety of white beans. This space has been protected
-Mouth of the Tordera. Usually, the Tordera river is dry in many parts of its course, but there is a lake in its mouth. There can be found a lot of bird species
-Parc Francesc Macià. The newest and biggest park in Malgrat, home to fantastic figures inspired by children tales
-L'Astillero. Located opposite to the tourist hotel zone
-Central beach. Located In front of downtown Malgrat
-Tordera Mouth beach. The largest beach in Malgrat. It extends from Malgrat downtown to the Tordera mouth. There is a nudist zone
More information: Turisme Malgrat de Mar
Maria del Mar Bonet i Verdaguer (born 1947 in Palma, Mallorca) is a Balearic singer from the island of Mallorca.
Bonet studied ceramics in the school of arts, but eventually decided to dedicate herself to music.
She arrived in Barcelona in 1967, where she began to sing with the group Els Setze Jutges.
She has published many rock music albums in Catalan, in spite of the ban on the Catalan language and its music during Francisco Franco's dictatorship. She has performed throughout China as well as in Japan, the former USSR, Tunisia, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Brazil, Sweden, Switzerland, Venezuela, Mexico, and the United States.
More information: @mmarbonet
Borja Penalba Català (Valencia, 1975) is a composer, record producer, arranger and musician.
He has worked with and for, among others, Feliu Ventura, Lluís Llach, Lluís Danés, Obrint Pas, Miquel Gil, Joan Amèric, Marc Parrot, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Bruno Oro, Albert Pla, Lídia Pujol, Elena Gadel, Verdcel, Aspencat or Andreu Valor. He also was a member of the valencian rock band Dropo.
More information: @BPenalba
Because the dictatorship is still alive,
we are still singing this song.
[Què volen aquesta gent?]
Maria del Mar Bonet
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