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03-JUN-2012 Chong Swee Park

Valldemossa

Mallorca

Valldemossa is rich in sources and is surrounded by abundant and lush vegetation (olive trees, oaks and almond trees, etc.), So it offers the visitor the feeling of calm and quiet secular. They have a special charm of its narrow streets and steep. It remains in the town the birthplace of Mallorca's most revered saint, Catherine Thomas, who was born in 1531 and died on Valldemossa considered a saint in Palma 1574. He is also a parish church location, native to s. XIII, although extensively renovated in the s. XVIII. The main attraction of Valldemossa has been and is, without doubt, the Carthusian monastery. Here we visit the rooms where they stayed the champions of French Romanticism in mid-century XIX, the famous Polish composer Frederic Chopin and his companion, the writer Aurore Dupin, better known by his alias of George Sand. The traces of his brief (December 1838 - February 1839), although intense, stay has led since then a ceaseless pilgrimage.

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
1/250s f/8.0 at 75.0mm iso400 full exif

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