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Els Pallaresos is a village located on a small hill from 125 meters in the district of Tarragones, Tarragona Province, in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia. It is surrounded by housing development. In recent years, it has had a population growth of very important people, mainly due to its proximity from the city of Tarragona (4 miles about). Traditionally the main livelihood of the villagers (Pallaresencs) was agriculture (the cultivation of hazelnuts, almonds, grapes, cereals, carob and olive oil). Nowadays, half the land isn't good for cultivation and therefore dominates the pine forest. Among the exceptionally fertile vineyards of the village emerges the Casa Bofarull, a Cultural heritage monument in Spain

Cat leads on top of the front door. It is one of the guardians of the house

On the ground floor  we found the old cellar, the warehouse where carriages and tools were kept, the animals stable

"spy hole” the eyes in the entrance hall

it was originally the wine cellar

The warehouse where carriages and tools were kept

a wide hall that leads to the two large dining rooms

The main dining room

One of the two large dining rooms at ground floor was used as a winter kitchen 

Hanger

The kitchenSee the heating

system under the table 

The access to the outdoor yard

A triangular aperture on the wall fitted with a praiseworthy iron grille and the outdoor yard fountain

Light in the hall. Apparently crooked serpent

Jujol was also a painter, sculptor, ironworker, graphic designer, and ceramic and stained-glass artistGrafting Architecture, Catalonia Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2014

A small office or music room

Endless details and furnishings adorn the house and the ancillary buildings

In front of the kitchen door, the main staircase that leads to the other floors

A spectacular staircase goes across all the building

wooden handrails

and the yellow and blue colours on the walls

iron railings

The first floor have a big hall and eight bedrooms

Door detail

Fragments of frescoes and paintings, the oldest remains of the house, can be found in the Great Room

the Great Room

the Great Room

"La Fontana de Jujol, Plaza d'España, Barcelona

the Great Room

The modernist architect Josep M. Jujol made several works in

the village: the schools and the house of the majority

(1920), the Andreu’s House, the grille of the Solé House (1927), the reform of the Emília Fortuny

house (1944) and the lateral altars (1945-47) of the church

of Sant Salvador. But the Bofarull House it’s his more

important work in the village, and the civil building more

representative of the work of Jujol in the province

of Tarragona. 

The Neo-Mudejar gallery, a really wonder

The Neo-Mudejar gallery

The Neo-Mudejar

gallery

The Neo-Mudejar

gallery

Jujol was as much an artisan as a designer, always closely engaged with the making of things and showing an instinctive preference for humble materials. 

Jujol was famous for utilizing waste materials and creating mosaics. Jujol's work ethic dictated that waste should be recycled into building projects, consoles were made from cardboard boxes, discarded farm equipment built into grilles, tin cans made into lamp rosettes, and fieldstones used as mouldings.

The Lookout Point Tower

Through the colourful stained glass windows the beautiful landscape is

seen in different colours like a

season changing

The Lookout Point Tower and the

Dome of the Angel

the Dome of the Angel

the Dome of the Angel

Josep Maria Jujol, one of Gaudí’s major collaborators, is an architect who deserves greater

national and international recognition. He was a magnificent architect with tremendous talent and

creativity

the Dome of the Angel

Catalan architect and colleague of Gaudi Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949) developed his unusual architectural style through many years of close, creative collaboration with Antoni Gaudi. Jujol's work is characterized by a high degree of sensibility to the forms of nature, an emphatically anti-geometric aesthetic, attention to workmanship and detail, as well as the imaginative use of old and previously utilized material. It is an eloquent expression of his affection for the Catalonian landscape, his modesty, and deep religious faith

Sound: Victoria de los Angeles - Damunt de tu nomes les flors (Above you Nothing but Flowers)

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu

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