Deiá

Hi, everyone!

I know, I didn’t write a lot of time. Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa! But there have been many changes and improvements in my life sine Iast post. I changed my job and I survived completely doing up my flat. It time was crazy but now I know that we can’t be afraid of change.

Today, I would like to write about a small coastal village in Mallorca, Deiá. It is located near of Valldemosa. This amazing place is well-known thanks for musical and literary residents for example: Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Seizin Press. Nowadays in Deiá lives the poet and novelist Claribel Algería. One of the most interesting fact about Deiá for fashion fans is, that, there Ana Rubik married Sasah Knezevic.  

I spend in Deiá one week and I know that I led a charm life because I had a opportunity to see a natural scenary of Mallorca. Also I knew a village life and I benefited to a tranquil, slow pace days. In addition, a views of narrow stony streets with old houses are breathtaking.

See you later,

Kamila

The Real Cartuja

Hi there!!

How are you? I finished all my exams. It’s time to relax! Zero books, zero learning! I’m very happy. I want to scream!! The first thing what I did when I finished me exams were sleeping. You may not believe me, but I slept 15 hours.

In the last post I wrote about Valldemossa. Now, I want to tell you something about one of the principal attractions of Mallorka, that is to say, the Real Cartuja. The Real Cartuja is nothing more that a monastery in Valldemossa but what is the most important for us is that in this place lived for some time Fryderyk Chopin with George Sand.  

The original part of the monastery dates from the times of King James II, who chose this unique place in the Tramuntana montain to build a palace for his son Sanc. However, in 1399 King Martín el Huamano donated all the royal possessions in Valldemossa to the Carthusian Monks. These funded the monastery, The Real Cartuja.

Currently, the visit to the buildings starts in the church, them monks’ pharmacy, garden, chapel, library, bedroom, etc. In the other word, the tourists have the opportunity to see how the monks lived. Also, in cells 2 and 4 there are a lot of mementoes of Fryderyk Chopin and George Sand’s stay in Valldemossa between 1838 and 1839.

Cell of Chopin

In addition, as a person who visited this magnificent place, I can say that it is worth to go to Valldemossa because a views of the mountains are breathtaking.
See you later!
Kamila

 

Views of the Real Cartuja